Example sentences of "part of [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'll come to blows with the Kurds , who 'll want their own state , and see this as a chance for getting it ; the Iranians will no doubt try to grab the Shia part of Iraq in the south ; and the Syrians will want their bit as well . |
| 2 | I remember the elocution teacher was very keen on the modern plays that were being published then — and I know we worked on Pinter which actually led me to use the part of Mick in The Caretaker for my subsequent auditions in England for a place in drama school . |
| 3 | Amber is said to have her eyes on the plum part of Beatrice in the screen version of Dante 's Divine Comedy– . |
| 4 | Contained within the breccias are the fossilized bones of many animals that lived in this part of Britain during the middle Pleistocene , and we will be describing the way in which the fossil bones of the smaller animals came to be deposited . |
| 5 | The vote for presidential reform was seen as expressing impatience on the part of Walesa at the speed of political change in Poland . |
| 6 | Why were the large new steelworks and rolling mills built in a different part of Sheffield from the old cutlery works ? |
| 7 | I had heard stories about a failed invasion attempt in 1940 , but a Russian NCO insisted that the Germans had planned some sort of operation against Churchill in a remote part of Norfolk in the autumn of 1943 . |
| 8 | Columbus 's House was in the part of Funchal near the cathedral and belonged to Jean d'Esmanault ( João Esmeraldo ) a Flemish merchant . |
| 9 | An absentee , according to the 1950 Israeli law , includes anyone who , between 20 November 1947 and the ending of the State of Emergency , was ‘ a legal owner of any property situated in the area of Israel … and who , at any time during the said period , was a national or citizen of the Lebanon , Egypt , Syria , Saudi Arabia , Trans-Jordan , Iraq or the Yemen or was in one of these countries or in any part of Palestine outside the area of Israel … |
| 10 | Er work continuing in Newark town centre with the closure of part of Castlegate in the Beesmarket Hill area of the town , diversions there mean that delays are likely too . |
| 11 | I 'm trying to trace a member of our family who moved to this part of London during the war , looking for work . |
| 12 | It is read by Josie Lawrence , who plays the part of Lottie in the film . |
| 13 | The herati design ( pls 22 , 23 ) derives its name from the town of Herat ( part of Persia until the last century , but now in Afghanistan ) , where it is said to have originated . |
| 14 | For Peking , Tibet has been an inseparable part of China since the 13th century , although direct control was not established until 1950 , when the People 's Liberation Army invaded the region after the revolution . |
| 15 | In Barra and adjacent islands , machair is widespread but occurs as discrete bayhead units , although Eoligarry machair is a distinctive peninsula joining the northern part of Barra to the central massif . |
| 16 | At this village north of St Austell is the Wheal Martyn China Clay Works , now preserved as an open-air museum of the industry that brought prosperity to this part of Cornwall from the mid-eighteenth century , when William Cookworthy , a Plymouth Quaker and apothecary , discovered kaolin , the chief ingredient of porcelain , which had been a secret closely guarded by the Chinese for over a thousand years . |
| 17 | Medau work has been popular in this part of Paris for the past eighteen years . |
| 18 | In several incidents in the eastern part of Germany over the past two months the Russians have continued to act like occupiers — and drawn only mild reproof from the German government . |
| 19 | More radically , the printed version is in F , and gives the part of Mopsa in the treble clef ; the version in the score is in G , with Mopsa in the alto clef . |
| 20 | Such statues were common in this part of France during the later part of our period , though most have not survived . |
| 21 | The U-boat activity and the occupation of part of France by the enemy were responsible for the food shortages , which sent prices soaring . |
| 22 | When Alsace was rebuilding itself as part of France after the war , it decided to create a single appellation and to use grape variety names rather than vineyard sites . |
| 23 | The passage of Wellington 's soldiers through the Basque country , when they were deemed to have behaved with greater decency and correctness than their French opponents , was in some degree the origin of the considerable fashion for this part of France among the English throughout the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | Playing the part of Dinah in the reconstruction is actress Sally Node , who was chosen for her babyish face and physical resemblance to the student . |
| 25 | And a ‘ Lady residing in a healthy part of Inverness near the school wishes a LITTLE GIRL to live with her . |
| 26 | He stated that he was in favour of Quebec remaining as part of Canada under the principle of " 10 equal provinces " , i.e. without " distinct society " provisions . |
| 27 | OMAN/YEMEN : Tribal skirmishes continue , with Yemen claiming part of Oman in the south . |
| 28 | Similarly , Jacqueline Hill was a strong contender for the part of Barbara from the very start , thanks to her critically acclaimed part in the TV play Six Proud Walkers . |
| 29 | The most dramatic example of this is the Jorvik Centre in York , which has a lifelike reconstruction of part of York in the Viking age ( complete with sounds and smells ) , a reconstruction of the excavation itself , and a display of finds . |
| 30 | His other direct gain in the north was part of Cottingham in the East Riding , which was in his hands by 1472 . |