Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [prep] part " in BNC.
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| 1 | These differences amongst institutions , and amongst their environments and perceptions of direction and identity , were to account in part for the differences of speed and conviction with which they raised the question of independence or autonomy — or , in the terminology of the time , academic freedom . |
| 2 | For example , he swam across the Firth of Clyde on four occasions , and across the Firth of Forth on one occasion — perhaps his greatest and most dangerous feat was to swim across part of the often stormy Pentland Firth at the top of Scotland from John O'Groats to the island of Stroma . |
| 3 | A close associate of Knighton said that one option being considered was to sell on part of his Isle of Man holding company , M K Trafford , through which the offer is being made . |
| 4 | The rump of Die-hard support around the Boswell publishing concerns was to survive as part of an underground tradition . |
| 5 | The Abingdon factory was to close as part of cutbacks being made by British Leyland . |