Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [conj] part of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it may be argued that part of the process was a search for the open sea which France had been denied until the early years of the thirteenth century , and that the desire to win control of the peripheral duchies of Aquitaine , Brittany and Normandy was but an aspect of a wider policy which included an ambition to have access to , and control of , the ports on the Atlantic , Mediterranean and Channel coasts for military as well as for commercial reasons . |
| 2 | As each excavator removes a layer of soil , decisions have to be constantly made : whether that soil is part of the layer which has just been removed or part of another layer ; where the boundaries to that layer are ; what the relationship of the layer is to the adjoining layers ; whether a soil sample is required ; and so on . |
| 3 | According to Seekings , the doors had been removed and part of the interior was taken up by a huge extra fuel tank . |
| 4 | The firemen were killed when part of the building collapsed on them . |
| 5 | This is probably why , for most Prague linguists , part of the definition of theme is that it is given and part of the definition of rheme is that it is new . |
| 6 | ‘ was not clean and in good working order ’ The defect must be described in detail to prove this point , e.g. ‘ Both bulbs were blown in the front obligatory lights and two white lights were not being shown to the front ’ or ‘ The rear nearside reflector was broken and part of it was missing , leaving only about a square centimetre of reflective material ’ etc . |
| 7 | The chancery of the British embassy was attacked and part of it was burned down . |
| 8 | A verbal exchange between two people was recorded and part of it was written down . |