Example sentences of "an [adj] part of the " in BNC.

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1 He was an explorer and naturalist — his lecture was to be about his expedition to an unexplored part of the Canadian Arctic looking for wild geese .
2 The rejectionist states which have viewed Western , particularly American , influence in the region as an inherent part of the problem , have also been characterized by weakness .
3 But very soon pressure from the vassals — and also , it may be , the simple fact that a good vassal 's children were likely to be good vassals themselves — made it common , then normal , and finally an inherent part of the feudal contract that the grant was heritable .
4 Clipping is an inherent part of the PostScript language in that any shape can be used as a window through which the rest of the illustration is viewed .
5 Coercion may well be an inherent part of the metaphoric process , but we may nevertheless ask whether it might not be possible to imagine a different type of metaphor , one that was truly interactive in a positive sense .
6 Polonium was then an irreplaceable part of the bomb .
7 The vertebrate retina is an outlying part of the brain .
8 By midsummer of 1976 , robbery and kidnapping in west Beirut had become an inseparable part of the war .
9 Diamonds at Kimberley and gold on the Witwatersrand transformed the situation in Southern Africa , and great railway schemes became an inseparable part of the partition of Africa by the European powers in the 1880s and 1890s .
10 Based in a back alley recording studio in an unfashionable part of the city , they had married their talents to perfect a pop formula that was selling millions .
11 Food is not only essential but can also be an exciting part of the afternoon 's entertainment , and most people arrange it for about an hour after the first children arrive .
12 It has been an unmistakable part of the testimony of Christian believers throughout history .
13 The late twentieth century has seen this decline accelerate and become firmly established as an acceptable part of the social scene .
14 This is then incorporated and becomes an indistinguishable part of the sewage stream .
15 A crew was predominantly a male group , like any other city gang , yet the skinhead girls eventually became an accepted part of the scene .
16 I changed into Tommy 's uniform in my roomette and went along to the dining car where Emil , Oliver and Cathy welcomed me casually as if I were an accepted part of the crew .
17 They argued that an ultra-right political movement could be possible only when its language and assumptions had first become an accepted part of the Federal Republic 's political discourse .
18 In most Latin American countries the Communist parties are now an accepted part of the political scene , largely because of their willingness to engage in the horse-trading of Latin American politics .
19 Over the last six years , the Cities and Media Forum has become an established part of the Festival and has played a substantial role in the debates about developing the media economies of regional cities in the UK .
20 And with the Arc such an established part of the racing scene , Paris will be bursting with Britons this weekend , with just a few hundred going on a punting pilgrimage to Dublin .
21 The Special Air Service Regiment — or S.A.S. , as it soon came to be called — was at this time an established part of the Army Air Corps , though it was little known to the public at large .
22 It was not until the 1940s that public opinion polling became an established part of the political process .
23 The playgroups , at first regarded with some suspicion by teachers since they depended upon a mixture of untrained staff and volunteers , have now become an established part of the educational scene .
24 In terms of the effect on potential parties , an argument advanced by the petitioners was that the notion of ‘ involuntary agency ’ was an established part of the lex fori , and to disapply it in the case of foreign defendants would be to give such defendants an advantage denied to their domestic counterparts .
25 He was one of the first to see that the tomato was ceasing to be a luxury and was becoming an established part of the British diet , and he developed an important trade in carrying tomatoes from the Mediterranean .
26 The Company Patrons are now an established part of the HCIMA consultative procedure .
27 In spite of reports yesterday that Mr Friel 's move amounted to a reopening of the inquiry , Scottish Office sources have told The Scotsman that the decision to ask Strathclyde CID to look at the evidence is an established part of the appeal procedure .
28 Citation and co-citation approaches often introduce bias into measures , and central influences are often not cited , because they are taken for granted ; they become an assumed part of the research paradigm , just as the all-pervading cosmic background black-body radiation is a palimpsest of the universe 's original Big Bang .
29 It was an appropriate part of the curriculum for learning from each other .
30 But , if there is a further " selecting " qualifier , such as only , and if the speaker sees the latter as focusing on the property of the adjective , then it is quite reasonable that he or she may also feel it necessary to mark this focal adjectival property as one to be explicitly assigned , rather than being an ordinary part of the identificatory bundle .
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