Example sentences of "[pn reflx] part of a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She imagined the child Lucenzo , parading in the Piazza in his brocade coat and shiny buckle shoes one year , then finding himself part of a real-life fairy-tale the next .
2 A diplomat who spent most of his working life in foreign capitals could easily feel himself part of an aristocratic international to which national feeling was hardly more than a vulgar plebeian prejudice .
3 In fact , the party emerged out of working-class experience ; more specifically , it was itself part of a political response to that experience .
4 There seems no reason , and the very business of raising such questions is itself part of a widespread collusive conjuring of absences and of whole worlds of what might have been .
5 As she slipped into the water beside them Rachel was aware that David had thrown a large orange ball into the pool before jumping in himself , and within seconds she found herself part of a noisy , boisterous game of water hand-ball .
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