Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] part of " in BNC.

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1 In a few minutes , we 'll be joining the monks who 've turned part of their abbey into a guest house .
2 Right , and we 've got part of this linked in with the stuff you might have done on Sapir-Wharf Hypothesis in the sense that er people talk about different things because they might be relevant to their actual lives .
3 We picked these up on a visit we made to the island of Haiti a few years ago , and they 've become part of our Christmas celebrations ever since . ’
4 You 've become part of their lives .
5 And you 've become part of the supply line now : selling on to finance your need .
6 However , since in auditory word recognition we hear the different sounds of a word in sequence , it is possible to make use of contextual information after we have heard part of the word — in which case such information can be used effectively .
7 There are still those who believe that the limbic system is the source of emotional experience , while others have implicated parts of the circuit in spatial ability ( McNaughton and Morris 1987 ) or memory ( Olton 1983 ) .
8 Why , for example , have Scottish cities been exempt from the urban riots which , every year since 1981 , have seen parts of English towns and cities literally torn apart ?
9 I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion
10 The monks have turned part of their Abbey into a guest house , and all their visitors agree that the brothers are very good hosts .
11 I have a suspicion that several objectors had more than the local interests at heart ; those who have enclosed part of the lane and extended their gardens on to land over which the public have a right of passage .
12 Home ownership is high and while unemployment remains a factor , new developments have transformed parts of Stockton .
13 Today with the shaking up of the post-war world order the terms migrants , refugees , borders , national identity , have become part of the cultural agenda in Europe and North America .
14 They have become part of the spacious ports de bras used during the dance .
15 Critics on the left claim that the police and education services have become part of the strategy of state control and regulation .
16 The coinciding appointment of Dusty Hare as salaried coaching director and looming relegation this season have become part of the shifting sands of time .
17 ( iii ) Discussion should bring out examples of words and expressions which tend to undergo very rapid change in use or meaning — eg terms of approbation ( wicked , brill ) ; differences in the use and meanings of words as used by pupils , their parents and grandparents — eg wireless , radio , tranny , receiver ; and new words that have become part of the English vocabulary during the last 50 years or so , eg computer , astronaut , macho .
18 Elegiac recollections are buttressed by the Roberts lithographs , pictures which have become part of a deep and dreamlike sleep through which the Palestinians have passed since 1948 .
19 Travel is so much the norm that even family celebrations such as marriage have become part of the travel business .
20 they have become part of me .
21 People in developing African and Asian countries do not have all our modern advantages and some infective diseases , which have become part of history here , remain rampant there .
22 They have become part of a stinging indictment of the way the South African police , blase about murder in a brutal society , have been handling this investigation .
23 Many of the basic concepts of Marxism — the class struggle , the bourgeoisie and the proletariat , the means of production , exploitation and revolution — have become part of the intellectual baggage of our age .
24 In particular , it will examine the extent to which questions concerning women and power have become part of mainstream political sociology .
25 If military methods were as aimless as they may appear , should we not concentrate on those moments , perhaps the decisive moments , of violent action when the armies of the two sides clashed in battles which have become part of national myth ?
26 Some , like Toshiba's ' 'Ello tosh , got ta Toshiba ? ’ have become part of the language for a time .
27 The theory of ‘ proletarianization ’ suggests that routine white-collar workers have become part of the proletariat and so can no longer be considered middle class .
28 From the small private London company of 1908 , Mills and Boon have become part of a million-dollar industry .
29 In the last five years , however , many of these centres , though still offering a two-year part-time programme leading to a Certificate in Education ( FE ) , have become part of the provision which has stemmed from the 1975 Haycocks Report , whose recommendations we examine in detail below .
30 Here we have to work around not only a collection of possessions which have become part of our lives , but also carpets or curtains or wall coverings we feel we ca n't afford to replace .
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