Example sentences of "[adj] part [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The luxury shower — costing more than Princess Diana 's whirlpool bath -is part of a £26,000 spruce-up of Chief Executive Mike Smith 's office .
2 As with the basic advice for the textual part of a newsletter the message is keep it simple .
3 His three years in the wilderness climaxed with a solid part in a BBC costume drama series .
4 This second point suggests that the interpretation of the two utterances is bound together in the sense that they are each part of a text which is , as a whole , consistent with the principle of relevance .
5 A crystal grows , to be sure , but each part of a crystal is simply a repetition of every other part ; the same monotonous pattern of atoms , repeated over and over .
6 Not only do you have to complete lines of blocks , without leaving gaps but if you can make the numbers , which are displayed on each part of a block , add up to the target figure you get a bonus and a bomb .
7 It should be seen as a definite part of a school 's total reading programme in English : it is not an interruption of it .
8 The working part of a filament lamp is a metal coil which glows white hot .
9 ’ Useful ’ semantic information is that part of a word 's definition ( or its expansion ) that is semantically related to the sentential context of that word in typical usage .
10 2 In phonology , the head is that part of a word group which either beings with the stressed syllable of the first accented word , not being the nucleus , and which ends with the syllable immediately preceding the nucleus ; or it may be the pitch pattern associated with that part of a word group .
11 2 In phonology , the head is that part of a word group which either beings with the stressed syllable of the first accented word , not being the nucleus , and which ends with the syllable immediately preceding the nucleus ; or it may be the pitch pattern associated with that part of a word group .
12 Within that part of a sample bombarded by electrons ( the ‘ reaction volume ’ ) , there are many effects other than cathodoluminescence .
13 It is commonly accepted that part of a nurse 's functions is to be sensitive to and provide care for the psychological needs of patients , achieved in part through interpersonal relationships .
14 See also Rex Stewart Jeffries Parker Ginsberg Ltd v Parker [ 1988 ] IRLR 483 in which that part of a clause which related to " associated companies " was severed .
15 Solidarity factory commissions in the Gdansk shipyard and repair yards had demanded on July 3 that one-third of shares should go to the workforce ( to be paid for in instalments or with bank credits ) and that part of a share issue be purchased by their union to finance its activities .
16 From reading sex manuals I knew I wanted to give oral sex because I love that part of a woman 's anatomy and I wanted to get close to it .
17 Bull cites one incident in which transmissions from a walkie-talkie caused a thermocouple to indicate — wrongly that part of a process plant supposed to be operating at 10°C had overheated to 200°C .
18 A head is all that part of a tone-unit that extends from the first stressed syllable up to ( but not including ) the tonic syllable .
19 The head was defined in the last chapter as ‘ all that part of a tone-unit that extends from the first stressed syllable up to , but not including , the tonic syllable ’ .
20 An order for delivery of particulars may direct that in default the proceedings be dismissed , or that the defendant or respondent be debarred from defending , or that part of a pleading be struck out ( Ord 13 , r 2(2) ) .
21 At present it 's merely a few planks covering a narrow part of a stream further along this track . ’
22 She played little further part as a combatant , stalling later British requests for reinforcements and providing minimal naval assistance in the Mediterranean .
23 PLANNING clearance was given yesterday for the shore-based part of a £1.5 billion gas project which will create spin-off contracts for firms in the offshore supply business , writes Frank Frazer .
24 Stimulation involves feeding a signal into some part of a circuit and measuring its consequences at some other point .
25 He has been caught in a machine , or some part of a machine has suddenly broken , with fatal results .
26 For committees ( except those on private or hybrid bills ) , their public proceedings are covered only when one or other of the broadcasters , independent producers or other organisations wishes to film some part of a committee 's work for use in a programme .
27 Without warning , something gave inside her , like some part of a dam long under unsuspected strain .
28 The letters to Greeves suggest that he did not find this part of a Christian 's duty very easy ( 'Daily Castration Prevents Master Bation' ) .
29 How I tend to start with the boring bits like the sky and then reward myself later with an interesting part like a face or a patch of white .
30 A similar effect is used in another part with a ball swinging over the screen .
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