Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] part [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The previous Congress Party government tried to lay part of the blame on Pakistan , saying that Khalistan terrorists had been trained and armed across the frontier .
2 The previous Congress Party government tried to lay part of the blame on Pakistan , saying that Khalistan terrorists had been trained and armed across the frontier .
3 Eighteen Nottinghamshire practices were randomly selected from the family practitioner committee ( now family health services authority ) list and invited to take part in the study .
4 This was only partially examined , but seemed to form part of an east-west range of rooms with at least two floor sequences .
5 Prosecutors did not go ahead with charges that she plotted to handle part of the proceeds of the robbery by allowing her husband to buy her a Tudor mansion .
6 In 1606 the lord and his tenants co-operated to reclaim part of the moor at Cossington in the Somerset Levels .
7 She maintained that you simply stood and watched the other Girls ; this was called ‘ sitting at the side of Nellie ’ ( Nellie or Eleanor being the only daughter John allowed to take part in the business . ) .
8 Two of these had earlier been the subject of the intensive case studies ( see Chapter 4 ) ; two had been involved in piloting the questionnaire and the head of another declined to take part in the survey on the grounds that he was just then attempting to introduce a scheme of SSE of his own devising .
9 Many schools declined to take part in the survey , however , for a variety of reasons : pressure of work , involvement in too many recent research projects and in some cases because , despite the LEA schedule , they had either not yet started on their review or had made only minimal progress .
10 In one participating practice one general practitioner declined to take part in the study and a further three were excluded — two because they had joined their practices within the previous six months and one because he left the practice during the study .
11 I do n't know whether it affects anyone else but what happened to me was that for the first time in my adult life I began to feel part of a community .
12 The Department of Health decided to adopt part of the model ( the reduced weighting for standardised mortality ratio ) and ignore the index of social factors .
13 You 'll need to retrace your steps on the path you originally took to get part of the way to Shining Tor leading to the A537 .
14 I went to take part in a farming discussion at the Country Living Fair , held in Islington .
15 She was a tall , strongly-built divorcee who aimed to walk part of the Coast to Coast route as a holiday , like most of the other thousands who trek the walk each year .
16 He agreed to take part in a Liverpool Polytechnic experiment to assess the effect of stress on referees , by monitoring the heartbeat and pulse , taking other factors such as fitness into account .
17 There were no half measures when Wimpey Minerals UK 's Chris Chalkley agreed to take part in a charity ‘ Shave-a-thon ’ .
18 In 1955 Minton agreed to take part in a radio programme , Designing a Wallpaper , as part of a series called ‘ Looking at Things ’ .
19 Two control individuals and three adult coeliac patients in remission agreed to take part in the study .
20 The Protestant majority in Ulster wished to remain part of the United Kingdom , and the province of Northern Ireland has so remained .
21 Whether he come from this or not , but erm we were dredging the West Bank cos er the kind of ship we got there then were the big tankers and there were n't enough room for them to swing round , so we had to dredge part of the bank out to make the swinging berth and erm there we dredged a bone up about that size
22 I actually had to curtail part of the business the first time .
23 Clearly if a wine bar were to find that the catering side of the business brought more trade and wished to convert part of the bar area into a restaurant , this would not be a material change and would not require planning permission .
24 The convent wanted to sell part of the grounds for development ; the local council was sympathetic while being the first to recognize the importance of the garden .
25 Some articles are clearly written as a by-product of teaching , perhaps adapted from lectures or intended to form part of a book .
26 Alia had also let it be known that Albania intended to take part in the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , from which it alone had stood aside until now .
27 The most notable consequences of the new Soviet initiative were that in 1975 Mexico signed an agreement with Comecon , and trade with both Argentina and Brazil reached a peak in 1981 when both countries refused to take part in the grain embargo introduced by Resident Carter as one of his sanctions against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan .
28 He declined to say if that included Hezb-i-Islami , which has declared his election invalid and refused to take part in the government unless Mr Rabbani steps down .
29 The Loyalist Coalition , consisting of the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party led by William Craig and the Democratic Unionist Party led by the Rev. Ian Paisley together with the Anti-White Paper Unionists led by Harry West , refused to take part in the talks .
30 The French refused to take part in the project because Dassault was not to receive the largest proportion of the contracts and , in June 1992 , Germany decided that , since the threat from the Warsaw pact was gone and she was unlikely to participate in out-of-area conflicts , she had no more use for the aircraft .
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