Example sentences of "a [adj] part [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , it was n't always such a pleasant part of the principality . |
| 2 | Yesterday , neighbours told of their shock at the murder in their quiet road in a pleasant part of the town . |
| 3 | The air base was expected to be an important source of employment in the Crotone area , a depressed part of the Mezzogiorno . |
| 4 | A sale in the City of London by a member of the public to a shopkeeper would not satisfy this requirement and nor would a sale which took place in a private part of the shop , Hargreave v. Spink ( 1892 Q.B. ) . |
| 5 | His three years in the wilderness climaxed with a solid part in a BBC costume drama series . |
| 6 | Although the maximum length of imprisonment was thereby reduced from one year to six months , and flogging was no longer a possible part of the punishment , trials took place much sooner , and sometimes at a locality closer to the complainant 's home . |
| 7 | At noon , in a narrowing part of the glen , a stretch which offered a little more greenery than the earlier reaches , the Highland guides , knowing of the climb ahead , halted to feed , water and rest the horses . |
| 8 | Clare was let off the residential weekend which is a normal part of the selection process and was taken on the strength of her interview and written application . |
| 9 | Until about 1950 it was a normal part of the vocabulary . |
| 10 | This is a normal part of the monitoring of one 's activities : it becomes more systematic if these intuitive reactions are shared within the team " ( DES 1989e : 15 ) . |
| 11 | They say they do not understand why their headmaster is so intent on persecuting them when 20 Jewish students do not attend school on Saturdays , a normal part of the school week in France . |
| 12 | These regional ministries operate as a normal part of the Whitehall machine except that they are located in Scotland and Wales , and they have the normal right to membership of any Cabinet committees dealing with matters for which they take responsibility in their areas . |
| 13 | Hedges and trees are a normal part of the countryside . |
| 14 | In this remark , perhaps the earliest preserved utterance of an English housewife , she certainly seems to have assumed that such food would be a normal part of the family diet . |
| 15 | Lastly , the opponents of drainage schemes have long complained about the secrecy with which the Ministry of Agriculture and the water authorities have shrouded their calculations , together with their almost universal resistance to public inquiries , which are now a normal part of the process of consultation preceding road and reservoir schemes . |
| 16 | Inherent in this willingness is the assumption that occasional failures will be experienced and will be accepted as a normal part of the learning process that accompanies change . |
| 17 | They are a normal part of the gut flora — the millions of bacteria and other microbes living in our digestive tract , mostly in the large intestine . |
| 18 | It was just seen as a normal part of the job then really . |
| 19 | The girl involved in the case — which echoes the hit film Home Alone — goes to stage school and had a non-speaking part in The Bill . |
| 20 | At present it 's merely a few planks covering a narrow part of a stream further along this track . ’ |
| 21 | It should be seen as a definite part of a school 's total reading programme in English : it is not an interruption of it . |
| 22 | Dr Wilder Penfield discovered that , by touching a specific part of the brain with a mild electric current passed through a probe , he could reactivate memories and responses to these events in his patients . |
| 23 | The first is that the paragraph should develop a specific part of the topic being considered . |
| 24 | This can be useful in situations where a set number of allowable words or phrases may be used when adding data to a specific part of the record . |
| 25 | yeah for a specific part of the body , B , a sex party or C , a device for separating dogs who get locked together during sex ? |
| 26 | In a typical conversational pronunciation of these sentences , the first tone-unit of ( a ) and the second and fourth tone-units of ( b ) might be treated as intonationally subordinate ; the prosodic characteristics marking this are usually ( i ) a drop to a lower part of the pitch range ( ‘ low key ’ ) , ( ii ) increased speed , ( iii ) narrower range of pitch and ( iv ) lower loudness , relative to the non-subordinate tone-unit(s) . |
| 27 | That , too , is part of my art , you see — to make such abnormal behaviour seem a coherent part of the victim 's reality . ’ |
| 28 | A strong blow to a weak part of the skull , such as the temple , could cause brain damage , leading to coma and even death . |
| 29 | There was a lower success rate when the angle to be measured was not on a labelled part of the scale ( Table 4.14 ) . |
| 30 | If the reference is to a high-level unit such as a part , objects will be aggregated to retrieve a complete part for the user . |