Example sentences of "part of the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has become part of the rhetoric of reform . |
| 2 | Mr Jones 's reported ‘ telling-them-to-go ’ belongs in a mode of speech instantly recognizable by the folk of the flock as part of the rhetoric of the very world they are closed to . |
| 3 | It was already lost — part of the jetsam of discarded immemorabilia which disappeared astern all the time . |
| 4 | Between them the Italian and German aircraft made possible an air-ferry which during late July and early August bore the greater part of the Army of Africa across the Straits of Gibraltar to Seville . |
| 5 | Prior to the division , consciousness and thought were connected to the process of material behaviour ; thought and action were part of the activity of all human beings . |
| 6 | Indeed , the production of meaning is seen as an essential part of the activity of the text , and it is not subordinated to an ultimate signified . |
| 7 | He took the view that her consent alone could not be retracted since it was given for all time as part of the contract of marriage . |
| 8 | It was also that free admission was part of the great Victorian philanthropic tradition , part of the vision of Britain which the Establishment felt they were called to safeguard . |
| 9 | Part of the deficit of the mainland colonies with Britain was covered by their exports to the sugar islands , part of it by increased indebtedness to British merchants . |
| 10 | Part of the secret of Lovejoy 's success is its Sunday night scheduling , which the increasingly undemanding nature of the show suits perfectly . |
| 11 | Perhaps Puccini discovered part of the secret of including a degree of narration within a melodic framework which could be called an ‘ aria ’ without upsetting the melodic and formal definition of the music . |
| 12 | As I suggested earlier , part of the secret of making hierarchy work is to distinguish carefully between hierarchical layers and pay grades . |
| 13 | Part of the secret of any success we 've had so far can be found in the fact that nobody really expected to us . |
| 14 | A long-held hatred of the system of separate ethnically defined " bantustans " for blacks was finding expression in support for the African National Congress ( ANC ) demand for reintegration of the homelands into South Africa , as part of the dismantling of apartheid legislation . |
| 15 | This is a salutary reminder of the powerful implications of teacher enthusiasm : no doubt at least part of the popularity of any text has as much to do with the way it is taught , as with characteristics embodied in the text itself . |
| 16 | This painful catalogue makes up only a small part of the inventory of the ‘ art ’ of the restaurant … |
| 17 | Richard M. Cooper , former archivist of the house of Longman , who published the book , makes the point , however , that a small ‘ privately printed ’ pamphlet published a month or two before The Pencil of Nature contains a single photographic frontispiece ‘ and therefore can perhaps take prior claim to be the first book in the world illustrated by photography , but it did not play the significantly influential part of The Pencil of Nature in establishing photographic illustration . |
| 18 | Most of the words and phrases are obviously toasts and are part of the conviviality of a drinking party , but some of the Trier vessels also bear painted portraits of deities , demonstrating a link with the gods . |
| 19 | You may bequeath your Entire Estate , a Specific Sum of Money , Specific Property , or all or part of the Residue of your Estate — or even make a Conditional Bequest in the event that another potential beneficiary pre-deceases you . |
| 20 | One possibility is to ignore the part of the award of damages which exceeds the amount exempt from tax under the ‘ golden handshake ’ rules , for instance by expressing the exempt amount ( currently £30,000 ) as an annual income over the unexpired period of the contract , estimating what the tax would be on that imaginary income and deducting that tax from the total compensation . |
| 21 | However , its appearance in June 1975 did not immediately bring about any action on the part of the Secretary of State . |
| 22 | Is that part of the Secretary of State 's proposal for the government of Scotland ? |
| 23 | Legally enforceable agreements formed the main part of the Secretary of State 's original proposals . |
| 24 | Standard English should form an important part of the teaching of knowledge about language : its historical , geographical and social distribution and the uses to which it is put ( in different countries , in different areas of society , in print and in the mass media , etc . ) . |
| 25 | Part of the teaching of the central section is to show how the disciples misunderstood the reason Jesus had come . |
| 26 | Figure 2.1 is a flow chart which covers some of the major decisions which have to be made as part of the formation of a catering enterprise . |
| 27 | The church is part of the diocese of the Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe who is based in London and whose diocese stretches from the Azores to Outer Mongolia and from the Canaries to Finland . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | These clubs have been part of the backbone of British rugby for decades , but Mr Salmon would obviously be quite happy to see them fade into extinction . |
| 30 | He brought , on the one hand , an attitude and , on the other , a brace of new writers to the paper who form part of the backbone of today 's NME , a place where people argue , fight , get drunk and get worked up about pop under the benevolent and sardonic regime of the mohicanned tartar of rock publishing , Danny Kelly . |