Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] [adj] part of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact it became clear that a considerable part of the defence was going to be that of justification , that the laws and usages of war permitted reprisals to be taken against hostages . |
| 2 | Appellate counsel 's point was that P was anxious to make it clear that the major part of the blame for the offences fell on others , and he might not have appreciated that the statement could be used against him ; it was thus unfair . |
| 3 | SPAR 's behaviour seems better if two conditions apply : that the reasoner is known to be less reliable than the linguistic part of the system , as it might be if the texts processed describe a relatively open domain ; and that , as for example , in a machine translation task , no further non-linguistic processing will be carried out on the reading accepted . |
| 4 | On this evidence it seems possible that a large part of the conflict that arose in the administration of the NIRC was the result of a belief of its president that , in industrial conflicts , one side can be discovered , after proper examination by judges , to be ‘ right ’ and the other side ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 5 | In both cases , the breccias are thought to be exclusively developed in the Z1 Carbonate , although it is possible that the upper part of the reservoir in Auk may represent a collapsed portion of the Z2 Carbonate . |
| 6 | The only part comparable to the united cardines is the postmentum , but it is possible that the median part of the sternum of the labial segment is incorporated in this sclerite . |
| 7 | This is not sad because the important part of humanity , its ability to respond emotionally , will carry on in the androids . |
| 8 | The neckline was low and the upper part of her breasts swelled against it , dividing to reveal the shadowy cleft between them . |
| 9 | However , it was quickly realised that this area was much too extensive and the southern part of rural Bedfordshire remained largely unvisited during the three-year period . |
| 10 | They are strongly moved to express themselves outside the confines of their lovely bodies , while , of course , conscious that a large part of their appeal lies just there . |
| 11 | But still darn more comfortable than the maniacal part of Majorca . |
| 12 | There is a plain and severe bell tower to the right , which is later than the main part of the building , and a projecting , half-roofed porch to the left ; the nave of the church is between the two , with its tiled roof sloping steeply down unilaterally from the tower to the porch . |
| 13 | He has found that the Sun 's average temperature of about 5800 K dropped by about 5 K between 1975 and the early part of 1981 . |
| 14 | Although the wool producers seem to have borne part of the tax costs , the substantial increase in cloth production during the war is most easily explicable if a large part of the wool tax was passed on by the exporters to the foreign buyers , while the English cloth manufacturers were able to undercut their Continental rivals ( 88 , pp.39–40 ) . |
| 15 | Very time-consuming , labour intensive and an expensive part of archaeology , the very processes of excavation also destroys the site : complete excavation is complete destruction , and so excavation is often described as an ‘ unrepeatable experiment ’ . |
| 16 | Dun Telve is now in Government care : much remains intact but a large part of its stone was robbed by local farmers in centuries past . |
| 17 | In the consultative document , the DTI proposes two courses of action : monitoring registration of branches at Companies House to ensure that the law is not abused by companies being incorporated in a lax jurisdiction to take over a British business ; or requiring branch accounts from overseas companies which conduct all or a substantial part of their business in Great Britain . |
| 18 | When the whistle was finally blown on the crime by a disgruntled ex-employee , thousands of policy-holders and share-holders simply lost all or a substantial part of their savings or expected pensions , amounting to somewhere between two and three billion dollars . |
| 19 | He 's young , supremely talented and an integral part of a successful , high profile side . |
| 20 | Although all but a small part of the encircling wall has gone , the older part of the city , with its narrow winding streets which witnessed so much of Scotland 's history , is still clearly separate from the New Town , the two being surrounded by the Victorian and Edwardian developments . |
| 21 | As all but the uppermost part of the mantle appears capable of viscous flow when subject to prolonged stress , the semirigid lithosphere , capped by continental or oceanic crust , can be viewed as ‘ floating ’ on the underlying asthenosphere ( the most easily deformable viscous part of the mantle ) . |
| 22 | As King ( 1977 ) shows in his major study of land reform in most parts of the world , altering the patterns of land ownership , inheritance and use has been seen by many as a necessary part of the search for more productive use of land , and hence as a solution to the endemic poverty which characterizes so much of the world : |
| 23 | These properties of V4 cells only appear , however , as long as a large part of the scene is illuminated and the scene contains more than one coloured area , which Zeki achieves using a multicoloured stimulus array he calls a Mondrian . |
| 24 | It is also difficult to see more than a small part of the action while defending oneself , and difficult to convey to magistrates the naked aggression displayed . |
| 25 | Clearly the whole point of the exchange , namely a request for specific information and an attempt to provide as much of that information as possible , is not directly expressed in ( 2 ) at all ; so the gap between what is literally said in ( 2 ) and what is conveyed in ( 3 ) is so substantial that we can not expect a semantic theory to provide more than a small part of an account of how we communicate using language . |
| 26 | When surveying the focus of attention of physical geographers it is evident that the major part of the earth 's surface , the oceans , has been ignored in physical geography research . |
| 27 | It is unlikely that the crystalline part of cellulose creeps to any measurable extent . |
| 28 | Like many of the customs of non-Western societies , they appear strange and even heartless to Westerners , but in the context of the particular society , they are sensible , rational and an accepted part of life . |
| 29 | Both Labour MPs protested strongly to Mr Stewart that immediate Government action was essential if a vital part of the remaining industrial base in Glasgow is to be saved . |
| 30 | Chiefly the collection covers the period from the eighteenth-century until the early part of the twentieth-century and so covers the most interesting period in the history of the city . |