Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] part " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Many functionalists see shared values as the key to this explanation : ‘ value consensus ’ integrates the various parts of society . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The house itself , she found , had been erected in a shallow depression in the mound surmounting the central part of the island . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The last man to leave , General Boris Gromov made the final part of the crossing on foot . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Consignor loans remain the main part of our loan business , although we generally now only advance about 35% of the low estimate ( as opposed to 1989 when up to 50% might have been loaned ) which reflects the uncertainties of the market today . |
| 19 | In these latter churches , the minister would conduct the main part of the communion service in the nave with the screens closed , and then take communicants through to the chancel to receive the eucharist , an arrangement that inevitably invested the sacrament with a sense of mystery . |
| 20 | A broad band of Corallian Limestone and Sand crosses the central part — northeast to south-west — and this is bounded on each side by Oxford Clay . |
| 21 | Bede represents Oswald as bringing under his sway all the peoples of Britain , divided by language into Angles , Britons , Picts and Irish ( HE 111 , 6 ) , but elsewhere writes that it was his brother and successor Oswiu , who made tributary the Picts and the Scots who inhabited the northern parts of Britain ( HE 11 , 5 ) . |
| 22 | This synkinematic , footwall intrusive suite constitutes the northeastern part of South Mountains and includes ( from oldest to youngest ) South Mountains granodiorite ( Tsm ) , Telegraph Pass granite ( Ttp ) , felsic dykes ( Tfd ) and microdiorite dykes ( Tmd ) . |
| 23 | He went downstairs with Dr Darnell and two others , and pulled aside the cloth just sufficiently for her to see the visible part of the face . |
| 24 | Even when it was something bad , like the mice-damage in the apple room , or the wasps ' nest in the orchard , or even your husband jumping off a plane and dying , she managed to see the good part of it . |
| 25 | And once you got started typing the main part of the letter , you were alright then ? |
| 26 | Highlighting is used on all or part of an option number to emphasise the significant part of the number at the level shown . |
| 27 | Organizing respectable credit for respectable people became the respectable part of an accountant 's work , whose training enabled him to ensure that it was sound , that is , within the bounds of profitability . |
| 28 | Piggy 's glasses became the only part of him that the boys were glad to have — as they lit the fire . |
| 29 | AND still there are two nations in England , if only because part of it thinks the other part is somewhere else . |
| 30 | So she put a few ideas on the back and said when you do the next one try following these ideas of organizing the different parts of the essay . |