Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] part [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Jeez , how on earth d' ya take a bath and how is your love life ’ were presumably part of the empathy process from Gerry and his audience almost comatose with voyeurism and in need of splints for drop-jaw .
2 Physical disruption , fear , the adrenalin events — they were only part of it .
3 The steely granite-grey eyes beneath their deeply hooded lids were only part of his dark attraction .
4 Mr Lang said that the allocations were only part of the story since authorities could also spend their capital receipts and use revenue to fund capital expenditure .
5 Mr Justice Millett held that , by reason of the decision of the Chief Commons Commissioner on 17 March 1977 , the plaintiffs were estopped from asserting as against the defendant council ( other than in proceedings concerned with the registrability of certain grass road verges within the Royal Manor of Portland under the Commons Registration Act 1965 , in respect of which the plaintiffs accept that this issue had been finally determined ) that the road verges were not part of the highway .
6 There was the same combination that I had seen before : collected in groups that seemed threatening because you were not part of them , and between these bright areas black , empty alleys full of odd forebodings .
7 The Flank Companies of the 1st Guards ( Grenadiers ) certainly later reinforced the Coldstream and 3rd Guards but they were not part of the original garrison .
8 Meanwhile , members who were not part of the £116m Outhwaite out-of-court settlement have voted to press their claims for compensation through the 1992 Outhwaite Names Association .
9 They were not part of Judi , but they came from her .
10 For the benefit of those who were not part of this scene , there was enormous and very real concern among the ruling classes that the whole of the young generation had fallen into a degenerative backslide which , of course , it had not .
11 It dealt with Rastafarian spiritual entities such as Jah or with ganja ( marihuana ) which were not part of the skinhead scene .
12 The expenses and toils of a long war are but too just an excuse that the thought of a new library were not part of the public cares .
13 However , people who were not part of any organized structures , particularly in rural areas , found fewer opportunities for participation .
14 The ‘ arts ’ were not part of their orbit .
15 The matter of paying rent , rates , bills of any sort , or taking a child to dentist or doctor , or when need be , to the school in order to enquire into the progress ( or otherwise ) of his offspring were not part of his world .
16 But local department stores or specialist shops which were not part of a chain were used less by credit buyers than cash buyers , whereas fuel board showrooms were used more .
17 Surprise at the gentle way he lifted her breast as though it were not part of her .
18 The geophysical models of the East Grampian Younger Basic intrusions imply they were not part of a single large layered basic/ultrabasic intrusive sheet .
19 France were not part of the tournament in 1892 , and 100 years later I would be reluctant to predict precisely what their impact will be this time round , Villepreux or no !
20 Moreover , since the 1788 petitions were not part of a movement pursuing significant change in the political system or attacking the range of government policy , the application of humanitarian and general interest criteria to a question of trade probably appeared relatively innocuous to those who were not directly involved .
21 This theory carries with it the implication that the cyclostome characters mentioned above were not part of the history of gnathostomes but were instead specializations restricted to lampreys and hagfishes .
22 They also include a couple of originals that were not part of the promotion , plus Jane Barry 's Casting ( Corgi ) for a light fun read , and Liane Jones ' The Dreamstone ( Mandarin ) for a glorious time-travel romance .
23 Though drawings were not part of the dramatic price increases of art during the late 1980s , it does not seem justified to claim that they went untouched by the general downturn of 1991 .
24 The terms ‘ media ’ and ‘ communication policy ’ were not part of de Gaulle 's vocabulary .
25 To Napoleon , the reduction of the monasteries and the abolition of the Inquisition were not part of a plan to reform and regenerate Spain but improvised responses to financial necessity and to the French idée fixe that rebellion was the work of monks .
26 The passages were not part of the ratio of the decision by which we are bound and with which I respectfully agree .
27 Sir , you will remember in the deposit , Skelton was inset , although these two fields were not part of the inset .
28 When significant parts of the system are reformed , we have no test to tell us whether the outcome is an improper breach of the constitutional order , a proper amendment , or whether the reformed institutions were not part of the ‘ constitution ’ at all .
29 In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned .
30 The Merkuts were not part of the Golden Clan , but the remark contained a certain amount of truth .
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