Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [prep] part [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move was widely seen as part of the Socialist Party 's strategy for the regional elections in March to counter the growing popularity of far-right views . |
| 2 | It was not necessary to break up large collective and state farms ( as was already happening in parts of Georgia and the Ukraine ) to give peasants more incentive ; they could form associations or joint-stock companies or leaseholders . |
| 3 | Our present VAT rate , at 15% , is lower than in many countries : As part of a general restructuring , it could rise to 25% , the level that was once adopted as part of a two-tier system . |
| 4 | In branches of physical geography the systems approach was also used as part of a fundamental basis for the study of drainage basins , ( Gregory and Walling , 1973 ) or of alluvial river channels ( Richards , 1982 ) and it has been used as the basic vehicle for other branches of geomorphology . |
| 5 | Nehru was also hounded by part of the press led by the Daily Express , almost to the day of his death . |
| 6 | The mill was originally run as part of the adjacent farm and , not surprisingly , was used to provide power for a number of other uses . |
| 7 | The jail was originally built as part of William the Conqueror 's castle . |
| 8 | A study to investigate similar effects for the right hemisphere was originally considered as part of this work , but was abandoned due to lack of availability of subjects . |
| 9 | The OED is a work in twelve large ( 30.5 cm x 22.5 cm ) volumes that was originally published in parts between 1884 and 1928 . |
| 10 | The child watched her now stand up in her stockinged feet on what had once been a fine Persian rug but was now worn in parts to its back , and unpin her hat . |
| 11 | While previously residential care had been seen as the solution for many young children , it was now considered as part of the problem . |
| 12 | That document was today leaked in part in The Independent and the newspaper also contained my allegation that the Secretary of State may have misled the House in relation to figures that he quoted last week in the House . |
| 13 | The actual founding of the town is obscure , but it was well established as part of the Royal hunting lodge before 1066 and so has no separate entry in the Domesday Book , since Snaith was a royal manor held by the King ‘ for the support of his table ’ , and therefore already documented . |
| 14 | The first case to consider is that in which , in many relatively early societies , an artist of a certain kind — often in fact a poet — was officially recognized as part of the central social organization itself . |