Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] part " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figure 1 b shows the rotation rate residuals after allowing for the increased value of slowdown rate which fits the later part of Fig. 1 a . |
| 2 | He moved and the slaves cowered back , as if , thought Nuadu , they had witnessed the next part before and feared it even more than the mutilating of the boy . |
| 3 | Tuppe had travelled the latter part of the journey on the tall boy 's shoulders . |
| 4 | He had to have travelled the better part of five miles cross country and another two from the edge of town in order to reach the Cathedral . |
| 5 | In July he led a great army against the Scots , but their Fabian tactics and ‘ scorched-earth ’ policy defeated his efforts even to relieve Berwick ; he returned to England ‘ with nothing done worth writing about ’ , as one chronicler put it , and disbanded the major part of his army . |
| 6 | Stalin had been hoping that British and American forces would be used to create a ‘ second front ’ on the main continent of Europe and by now he had convinced himself that the United States and Britain were deliberately delaying the creation of the ‘ second front ’ so that the Russian forces would be weakened by allowing the major part of the German forces to continue to oppose them on the eastern front . |
| 7 | Applicants for the Clinical Course Students from the Universities of Cambridge , Oxford and St Andrews reading for medical science degrees who have completed the appropriate parts of their course may be admitted to Phase II in order to complete their medical studies . |
| 8 | Since 1945 just over 600 awards have been made , with 41 first bars and five second bars — a reflection of the numerous small conflicts which have plagued the latter part of the 20th Century . |
| 9 | Various items of furniture had still not yet arrived , and the alteration to the cistern in the apothecary 's shop had not been done — the plumber had not yet received the necessary part from London ! |
| 10 | Later neolithic houses were normally built on a stone footing and this system — building the lower part of the walls of stone , the upper part of mudbrick — became standard in the bronze age . |
| 11 | We could make the same kind of case for clusters of compatible genes building the different parts of eyes , ears , noses , walking limbs , all the cooperating parts of an animal 's body . |
| 12 | Many functionalists see shared values as the key to this explanation : ‘ value consensus ’ integrates the various parts of society . |
| 13 | So symptoms that are common and occur in most or all cases of that type of complaint are useless when selecting a remedy , for example , nausea worse for eating , pains worse for touching the sore part , dry mouth with thirst . |
| 14 | Equally , an area on a graphics tablet can form an extremely flexible form of control ; for example , a diagram could be laid over such a tablet — the user could then see clearly all the control possibilities and by touching the correct part of the diagram he could control the program with ease . |
| 15 | In October he passed the first part of the examination for ordination , and afterwards could not understand how he passed . |
| 16 | Simon stayed at home working for the Bar Examination , he passed the first part quite soon just as he had predicted . |
| 17 | The house itself , she found , had been erected in a shallow depression in the mound surmounting the central part of the island . |
| 18 | After all , the postclassical position recognises that variability in human criminal motivations plays a part in accounting for the prevalence of crimes : it would not be too damaging to the overall position to allow that in some cases it plays the major part ( provided that the exceptions only constitute a tiny proportion of total crime — which would certainly be the case with sexual abuse of children ) . |
| 19 | The course of Hornblower 's love for the forthright ( and fictional ) sister of the noble Wellesleys , developed through his uneasy , self-tormenting thoughts , plays the central part in the novels demanded by their romantic tone and structure ; in the way the two proud individuals adjust to an intimacy which disturbs their essential need for privacy of character , in Hornblower 's emotional vacillations when in perilous circumstances he meets Mane de Graçay again , his behaviour and musings are consistent with his given character . |
| 20 | This licence plays the same part in relation to seamen 's canteens as a licence granted under Part It of the Act in relation to licensed premises . |
| 21 | In the twentieth chapter , significantly after the cross and resurrection , he shows how Jesus fulfils the second part of Old Testament expectation for the Messianic Age by breathing upon his disciples , charging them with his mission , bidding them continue his role of proclaiming remission of sins to the penitent and judgment to those who refused to hear , and saying to them ‘ Receive the Holy Spirit ’ ( 20:22f ) . |
| 22 | The last man to leave , General Boris Gromov made the final part of the crossing on foot . |
| 23 | ‘ Once they were a proud people and ruled the greater part of Scotland but the Celts , the Angles , the Saxons and the Normans drove them from their lands into the dark vastness of the forests . |
| 24 | You may have used your pitch range ( which was introduced in 15.3 ) in different ways : your pitch movements may have taken place within quite a narrow range ( narrow pitch range ) or using the full range between high and low ( wide pitch range ) ; if you did not use wide pitch range , you may have used different keys : high key ( using the upper part of your pitch range ) , mid key ( using the middle part of the range ) or low key ( the lower part ) . |
| 25 | If you qualify and wish to apply for a divorce : send for an application form using the tear-off part of this leaflet , but keep the remainder of the leaflet : it may be of help to you later |
| 26 | The restoration of the once-derelict mill was carried out by Wilf Medlam who steadfastly stuck to his policy of using the correct parts and materials wherever possible . |
| 27 | You may have used your pitch range ( which was introduced in 15.3 ) in different ways : your pitch movements may have taken place within quite a narrow range ( narrow pitch range ) or using the full range between high and low ( wide pitch range ) ; if you did not use wide pitch range , you may have used different keys : high key ( using the upper part of your pitch range ) , mid key ( using the middle part of the range ) or low key ( the lower part ) . |
| 28 | Two soldiers were detailed to search the lower part of the house and two the upper . |
| 29 | South Cambridgeshire District Council has recognized the important part that environmental health officers have to play within the work of the District Council , and for some time now the work of the Department has been carried on under the hat of the Legal , Housing and Health Director . |
| 30 | The Prime Minister should answer the first part of that question , but not the second . |