Example sentences of "[verb] part [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Although it was small and its facilities were poor , the standard of learning attained was high , as was illustrated by McJannet in his History of Irvine when he noted that as early as 1729 , the pupils ‘ translated part of a Greek Testament into Latin ; some of the Roman authors into English … and also translated many English sentences into elegant Latin with great dexterity . ’
2 These independent structures are then transformed to dependent ones : " After she had swept the room " , etc. , and made part of a complex sentence .
3 Before the site became part of a private country park the building was lived in by a local tenant farmer named Mrs Hollington .
4 The paragraphs being added to the database became part of a new book on hypertext entitled Hypertext : from Text to Expertext .
5 By the 1940s , retirement had been written in to state support for the elderly and , as such , became part of a new institutionalized dependence .
6 Being part of the Garrowby estate , owned by the Earl of Halifax , it is rather unusual in this day and age as having no privately owned houses or farms , other than the old rectory which was sold several years ago when the parish became part of a joint ministry .
7 The first passenger packet boats operated from Warrington to Manchester and later became part of a through route from Liverpool to Manchester via Runcorn .
8 As late as the end of the nineteenth century in some Western European states local politics retained their dominance over central concerns , until markets , jobs , and communications like the railways became part of a national whole .
9 These companies in practice then became part of a national cartel .
10 They became part of the symbolic political language through which the riots were understood by policy makers and by popular opinion .
11 Other internal Scottish Region expresses to Aberdeen and Inverness also became part of the Provincial empire , even though their carriages were still branded ‘ InterCity ’ for many years after sectorisation .
12 The two most populous union territories , Pondicherry and Delhi , became part of the electoral college on May 7 by a unanimous decision of the Indian parliament ; elected members of the Pondicherry and the proposed Delhi legislative assemblies would thereby be able to participate in presidential elections .
13 On Oct. 3 the German Democratic Republic ( GDR or East Germany ) ceased to exist when the five Länder ( states ) which had been re-established on its territory in July 1990 [ see p. 37661 ] became part of the Federal Republic of Germany ( FRG , hitherto referred to as West Germany ) .
14 The deceased became part of the unchanging natural rhythm of the universe , the universe as he conceived it , encompassing the earth , the sky , the sun , the stars and the Underworld .
15 Fresh salmon and freshwater fish were not rationed but were price fixed and like game and poultry , usually became part of the black economy .
16 Again , despite widespread opposition from many sections of the community , the clause became part of the final legislation .
17 It was not until the French Revolution that democracy ceased to be a mere literary word , and became part of the political vocabulary .
18 As a cardinal deacon , he became part of the papal " civil " service , acting on occasion as auditor of lawsuits and witnessing administrative acts of the curia .
19 This philosophy , which became known as the ‘ Carter doctrine ’ , persisted into the presidency of his successor and became part of the conditioning material at play in later Washington reflexes .
20 By the time that Israel became part of the Roman empire , the idea was already widespread among the various religious sects that the ‘ End of the World ’ was at hand , although it was only for the Essenes of Qumran that this belief assumed a definite form ; that , whereas the First Judgement at the time of Noah had been destruction by water , the Last Judgement would be destruction by fire .
21 But 240–200 B.C. were exactly the years in which Greek epics , tragedy , comedy and historiography became part of the Roman way of life .
22 Greek philosophers and rhetoricians became part of the Roman establishment .
23 After the first world war the line became part of the Southern Railway and on summer Saturdays special trains hauled by massive locomotives brought hundreds of holiday-makers from London and the North .
24 When , in 1975 , PNG won its independence from Australia ( which had been running the place since 1949 ) , Bougainville formally became part of the new country .
25 On 1 January 1923 , the LNWR became part of the new LMSR Company .
26 Welfare services for the disabled became part of the new local authority social services departments and the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act was passed .
27 During this period , Aleppo 's status changed dramatically ; from being a major trade centre and quasi-independent Ottoman provincial capital , it became part of the new Syrian state and subordinate to the capital Damascus .
28 But when county boundaries were reorganised in nineteen seventy four it became part of the new county of avon .
29 Her resentment and disappointment became part of the awkward thrust she made to fasten Robert 's gardenia to her shoulder strap .
30 Situated at the head of the Cuckmere valley , on an impressive site in the heart of the Weald and protected by the great bend of the Cuckmere River , this site was chosen for an Augustinian priory in the 13th century and became part of the religious life of the time .
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