Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] part " in BNC.
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| 1 | More fertilizer might mean more grain ( and more carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide to add to the greenhouse effect ) , but there obviously comes a point where more fertilizer does not mean a bigger yield or perhaps is not justified on cost grounds , particularly when grain prices are low , as they were for part of the 1980s . |
| 2 | Winning the Civil War was just such an overriding priority , and all other issues were in part subsidiary to this . |
| 3 | Such papers as the Reporter , and the British Emancipator were in part intended to win abolitionists for the emancipation and anti-apprenticeship campaigns . |
| 4 | These comments were in part reflecting a recent review of eight research studies on the frequency of childhood sexual abuse in the UK , published in Health Trends ( Markowe , 1988 ) . |
| 5 | WE WERE IN PART educated by the Poms . |
| 6 | Knowledge about cyclical patterns of women 's sexual feelings were in part dependent on further research in endocrinology , and it was not until 1928 that two scientists working separately , Ogino and Knaus , discovered the hormonal pattern for the menstrual cycle . |
| 7 | While ‘ technological convergence ’ and ‘ deregulation ’ were in part publicity slogans and lobbying arguments , these terms also had some empirical substance . |
| 8 | Restrictions on international trade , such as tariffs , were in part responsible for this — and the USA had herself encouraged such restrictions by her own high tariff policy . |
| 9 | Certainly , Nicholas 's personal deficiencies were in part responsible for the speed with which the regime 's authority was undermined . |
| 10 | These ideas , pioneered in this country by Maxwell Jones , among others , were in part the outcome of studying the mental hospital as a social organization . |
| 11 | This is not to say that there are not important distinctions between , say , the large cities , or between declining industrial areas ; individual localities may all show different social relationships ( Cooke , 1989 ) ; it may be that similarities of trends in the 1960s and 1970s were in part coincidental , and that there will be salient differences in the 1990s . |
| 12 | The problems of memory research , it seemed to me , were in part the problems of any new research field . |
| 13 | Agonising about the Gold Standard decision , he wrote to his Controller of Finance at the Treasury , Sir Otto Niemayer : So one might ask whether by maintaining high interest rates to support the value of the pound against the Deutschmark , the British people were not being required to make untold sacrifices to match German interest rates , whose levels were in part at least caused by that country 's need to rebuild her eastern provinces . |
| 14 | ( Part of the reason for this undoubtedly lay in the fact that the foraging hominids of whom we are speaking were in part already pre-adapted to upright posture by an evolutionary past different to that of today 's gelada baboon and because they probably already possessed cerebral development going beyond that of a mere monkey thanks to their common ancestry with today 's great apes . ) |
| 15 | Announcing the figures , Environment Minister David Trippier claimed that heavy rains were in part to blame for overloading coastal sewage treatment systems , while the preceding drought meant that a higher density of sewage bacteria had been carried in rivers . |
| 16 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
| 17 | The CNAA was not aware that the new premises were on part of the site of what was once the Home and Colonial Infant School Society , which from 1836 had been one of the country 's first teacher training organizations , and had occupied 334–54 Gray 's Inn Road in 1839 . |
| 18 | My invitation to St Louis Music was as part of their annual International Dealer ‘ 92 conference , an essentially informational programme for dealers ( and a few journos ) revolving around the main products marketed under the SLM banner . |
| 19 | But by far the greater number of paintings to be seen at both these Salons in the first ten years of the century were still sub-Impressionist in character , and it was as part of the final and conclusive reaction against Impressionism that the Cubist and proto-Cubist works exhibited in 1910 were greeted . |
| 20 | We aim to show in Chapter 5 that this blindness was in part promoted by the religious elements in their beliefs . |
| 21 | the bourgeoisie erected an ideological barrier around those who went to prison … [ an ideology ] about crime , criminals , theft , the mob , degenerates , ‘ animals ’ … which was in part linked with racialism … |
| 22 | The fault was in part with construction of the cable and in part with the high voltages … forced on it ’ .8 |
| 23 | The tighter political hold was in part a reaction to the worsening economic and organizational situation in cultural affairs . |
| 24 | Thus , the Conservative attack on inflation and public-sector wage explosions was in part nullified by the Clegg awards on pay comparability . |
| 25 | This was in part because it was simply not working . |
| 26 | This new centralism was in part because the Thatcher government perceived these institutions as potentially so damaging that they needed the maximum of intervention to suppress them . |
| 27 | This was in part due to a disability which was not realized . |
| 28 | It was in part because of this love of the specially religious life , and in part because of the affection for the long history of the Church , that he led another pilgrimage ( 1959 ) of several thousand people to Holy Island on the coast of Northumberland and even The Times had a piece about the archbishop walking barefoot . |
| 29 | In other words , to a degree the burden of Germany on the balance of payments was in part the result of Britain 's ‘ great power ’ posture , and not just the consequence of the military pattern that emerged in the conquest of Germany . |
| 30 | As I stumbled along , she told me that the present appearance of the castle was in part the creation of the hotel people , who had joined two separate buildings together . |