Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been part " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He reckoned I had been part of a consortium which spoke to two clubs and accused me of acting secretly — but I told him .
2 For more than twenty years I 've been part of the furniture , a constant teatime companion .
3 I 've been part of Jewish life — and so have Rainbow and all her kind , and all the other heretics and deviants and dissenters — far longer than your little cult . ’
4 In the 1920s , an uncle founded the Barrandov film studios that were to have their finest hour with the Czech New Wave of the Sixties , and his father was responsible for and owned , among other buildings , the Lucerna block in the heart of the city which has been part of the life of most Pragers , with its remarkable collection of art-deco restaurants , bars , cinemas and concert hall .
5 It would be very wise if the Left advocated the policy of land-value taxation , which has been part of Liberal policy this century .
6 You can at least see or hear , which has been part of your ordinary physical development .
7 The exhibition presented in stark contrast a series of ideological pronouncements on the wonders of life in the ‘ people 's democracy ’ , together with images and reconstructions of the realities : ‘ fake elections , the forced exploitation of workers in the form of ‘ work competitions ' ’ , the ruining of peasants , the servile imitation of Soviet methods , the ridiculous praises given to domestic and Soviet conditions , the unscrupulous abuse of everything in the capitalist system , the unlawfulness which had been part of the system from the very beginning , persecutions , the drabness of life , of the immediate surrounding , of the work-place , of the living quarters , of the clothing , the false and forced propaganda inundating everything …
8 On May 11 the United Malays National Organization ( UMNO ) , the largest party at national level , won a seat in the Sabah State Assembly for the first time , defeating the candidate of the ruling United Sabah Party ( Parti Bersatu Sabah — PBS ) which had been part of the UMNO-led National Front central government coalition until just before the October 1990 general election [ see pp. 37780-81 ] .
9 The art awards , he continued , were in keeping with the best traditions of the P&O SN Co , which had been part if the maritime history and development of Australia since 1852 .
10 This may well mean developing the range of presentational skills which have been part and parcel of effective classroom teaching for generations .
11 It did little for the image of a man who has been part of the backbone of the team for so long , and was playing in his eighty-seventh Test .
12 We are in the early stages of developing a day-case surgery/five-day ward and would be very interested to hear from anyone who has been part of a similar project .
13 She had been part of a long stream of women who had come and gone swiftly , lives collapsing in one area as they gained power and certainty in another .
14 Out on the fringes of the Vartaq Veil , looking for traces of her lost father , she had been part of a team excavating a Dyson sphere constructed around a white dwarf star .
15 Before he 'd interfered in her life she had been part of a team , doing a job that she enjoyed well .
16 A 15-year-old Darlington girl admitted yesterday that she had been part of a gang which broke into the town 's Salvation Army Hostel .
17 The grim reality of the war was reinforced when Gad Gross , who had been part of the JB group , was killed by Iraqi soldiers on 29th March .
18 And although Big Flame was never an ‘ entryist ’ party-within-a-party , like some of the Trotskyite groups , including Militant Tendency , everyone who had been part of it remained friends .
19 " He was convinced " , wrote Tupper , " that the German man-in-the-street was participating in this senseless and savage struggle because the Prussian system forced him to ; the ordinary subject of the Kaiser might be misled into believing his cause just — but he could not conceive it possible that the German sailormen who had been part of our Merchant Service could have anything but hatred for this catastrophe " .
20 I wanted to live awhile among those who had been part of his childhood and his last few years .
21 Those party members who have been part of the fight for a fairer electoral system at Westminster may be wiser , for the time being , to turn their attentions to the internal so-called democracy inherited from those internecine struggles of the early 1980s .
22 ‘ Can you imagine what it must be like to lose someone who 's been part of your life for so long ? ’
23 They 'd been part of an 8-man patrol , call sign Bravo-2-0 , whose task was to seek and destroy the mobile Scud launchers with which Saddam Hussein was attacking Israel .
24 They used the Latin script , and they had been part of the western world from the time of the Roman Empire .
25 They did not want to repudiate totally their previous policies , yet had to recognise the disaster of which they had been part .
26 In this case , space is left unused in the main data area when the file is created , and additions are located on the same cylinder ( IBM ) or seek area ( ICL ) that they would have occupied if they had been part of the file when it was created .
27 On July 19 three of the original five asylum seekers told Cuban television that they had been part of a plot hatched by diplomats from the US Interests Section and from the Czechoslovak , West German and Canadian embassies , all of whom denied the allegation .
28 Oats are the safest and most natural grain to give to horses ; they have been part of the development of the horse over the last two thousand years .
29 This paper has largely been limited to the processes within education — the ways they have been part of a wider process of economic and political domination have been little more than hinted at .
30 He has been part of the decision-making process to broaden the game 's amateur ideals : ‘ The players now have a very square deal worked out ’ .
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