Example sentences of "[adj] part of a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 It should be seen as a definite part of a school 's total reading programme in English : it is not an interruption of it .
2 This is partly because vocabulary is the most individualistic part of a person 's knowledge of language , and continues to develop throughout life , although its growth is clearly fastest in early years .
3 George was adept at reading entries in directories official lists and Who 's Whos from many countless which tried to skip the most interesting parts of a subject 's life .
4 BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT : The art of phalloplasty , in which fat is removed from different parts of a man 's body and grafted on to his penis .
5 The Dupatta ( or Chunni as Hindus and Sikhs call it ) is the most obviously symbolic part of a woman 's clothes .
6 They fear that responsibilities and attitudes once a prominent part of a teacher 's life may no longer be regarded as essential ; they fear an erosion of the teacher 's role and status , and see changes as signalling moves to squeeze him out of concerns that were and are rightly his .
7 Any such movement usually occurs in the early part of a buildings 's life but this may not always be the case depending upon the nature of the subsoil upon which the building is founded .
8 The shoot system of stems , leaves , flowers and seeds comprises the visible part of a plant 's anatomy .
9 Nevertheless , all three can be quite separate and distinct parts of a horse 's temperament .
10 The Department of Health states that it forms a valuable part of a baby 's diet for at least a year — so do carry on if you want to .
11 What is essential , he feels , is that such skills become a natural part of a player 's working life — not that the children are given a ‘ treatment ’ as the result of a dislocated training package directed by those who do not really understand a musician 's mind or motivation .
12 Indeed , a large part of a horse 's psychological wellbeing is dependent on it being part of a herd , or at least having the companionship of one or two others .
13 Heading for the bar is an integral part of a footballer 's social life .
14 Morality , Sir Monty points out , is an integral part of a society 's culture at any given time in its history , and in his view our moral conditions have changed radically .
15 The point of departure is the intuition that the presence of a notion of luxury within a society enables it to judge what , by contrast , is socially necessary and , in this sense , the notion is an integral part of a society 's self a definition .
16 Thorndyke argued that bridging inferences should be stored as an integral part of a subject 's memory of a passage .
17 In principle , a decision to establish a tax haven operation should be an integral part of a group 's overall commercial plans , and not merely be tax driven .
18 In other regions , e.g. Dorset or North Yorks. , a period of c. 20-30 years usually appears long enough to account for the major part of a feature 's development , ( this is possibly the working life of an individual craftsman ) .
19 Sharing the Eucharist is a major part of a Christian 's basic baptismal rights , only to be denied in principle on account of grave sin .
20 Weddings are a very important part , and a part that er , we all enjoy but erm we , I would n't say it was the major part of a florist 's business , there 's quite a few other aspects .
21 This is after all a major part of a teacher 's role .
22 ‘ Their beaks are sharp and know where to find the vulnerable parts of a prey 's body : belly , throat and eyes . ’
23 Mirth is never the most important part of a man 's life and can indeed be irksome in times of depression or trouble .
24 Accepting that meals are a very important part of a person 's life-style means that their timing might have an important role in adjusting the body clock .
25 The sound of his or her own voice is in a similar way an important part of a person 's self-image .
26 Learning how to use " real " dictionaries is a most important part of a child 's reference and research skills .
27 Properly controlled , phantasy is obviously an important part of a poet 's castle , when by profession he is a ‘ maker ’ , a fictionaliser in some sense .
28 We have seen that a very important part of a gene 's environment is the other genes that it is likely to meet in successive bodies as the generations go by .
29 In fact the channelling of reports and dissertations towards educationally productive goals is merely part of a wider and far more important issue , that of establishing a new climate of opinion among teachers and those who train them which regards enquiry about the learners and the environment in which they learn as an important part of a teacher 's professional life , which seeks to develop interests and provide skills for them to do so as part of their training and retraining and which rewards initiatives undertaken in college and subsequently .
30 They therefore defined the hazardousness of a place as the complex of conditions which define the hazardous part of a region 's environment .
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