Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [art] [adj] part " in BNC.

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1 Other subjects used the first part of the show included the Dart Valley railway , the Red Arrows and computer graphics .
2 Perhaps even more significant , well over half of the husbands played no direct part in caring .
3 Lesbian and gay speakers played an important part in the debate .
4 Heads played a crucial part in developing such a culture , but it was sustained by other leaders ( especially deputies ) and by active participation of staff members .
5 Moreover , their ability to make sense of the workers ' predicament and articulate their grievances played an important part in mobilizing less sophisticated ranks .
6 Indeed , the freshness and simplicity of those recordings played a vital part in laying the foundations of a lasting career .
7 The Plantagenet dominions played an essential part in the dynastic policies of the three Edwards towards their families .
8 By such a mechanism , in which family ties played an important part , a relatively rapid ascent was opened up for the younger sons of the prosperous Catalan farmers who must leave the farm to the chosen heir ( the hereu ) ; within a generation a man could make a modest fortune , exposed to the risk of loss as well as the hope of gain .
9 Like the Indians and Levantines in modern Africa , the Jews played a vital part in fertilizing the economy of medieval Europe .
10 During the May and June protests journalists took a leading part in demanding greater freedom of the press , and sympathetic reports of the pro-democracy movement briefly appeared in newspapers and broadcasts .
11 One matter on which all three members of the court founded their judgments was that in that case the path and steps formed an essential part of the means of access to the house , in that it was the only way in .
12 Edward 's two youngest sons played an insignificant part in politics in these years .
13 These rugged peaks played a large part in determining Harlech 's siting as one of the so-called ‘ iron-ring ’ of fortresses , built to contain the Welsh in their mountain fastness .
14 Bells played a prominent part in medieval life , and mechanisms for ringing them , made of toothed wheels and oscillating levers , may have helped to prepare for the invention of mechanical clocks .
15 These investments played an important part in enabling the enlarged Wood-Way operation to continue its growth throughout the year .
16 These investments played an important part in enabling the enlarged Wood-Way operation to continue its growth during the year , despite a downturn in offshore drilling .
17 Whereas influential books like Flint 's Glacial and Pleistocene Geology adopted a structure in which landforms and landscape patterns comprised the early part of the book and then were succeeded by chapters on stratigraphy and chronology in different areas and this was echoed in the structure of research on specific areas ; by the late 1970s books by physical geographers had adopted a structure in which chronology and the classic models appeared at the beginning .
18 These Scudéry-influenced romances played an important part in the genesis of the English novel .
19 Potatoes became an important part of the national diet , grown on 40,000 acres in 1795 and 142,000 in 1851 ( Salaman 1989 ) .
20 In succeeding years amateur dramatics played a prominent part in the ever increasing social programme of the branches and Regional Councils of the BDDA .
21 The internationalism of the leaders and cadres of national liberation movements in the Third World is more obvious where such movements played a leading part in the liberation of their countries than where countries were decolonised from above , for the post-independence breakdown of what previously operated , as a united movement of ‘ the people ’ is more dramatic .
22 This was important to set the issues that would have to be addressed in any mining company EIA in advance and to ensure community concerns formed a major part of the agenda to be addressed .
23 Combining the two ideas produced a four part storyline which went into studio production during August 1964 .
24 Darwin 's work shows how little scientific thinking about dreaming has changed over two centuries , and its popularity and deep influence during his own lifetime ensured that these rationalist ideas became an accepted part of literary as well as scientific ideology .
25 The manufacture and installation of ventilators became a substantial part of Yeoman 's business , and , after making a start at Northampton hospital and gaol in 1748–9 , he fitted them also to gaols in Shrewsbury , Bedford , Aylesbury , and Maidstone , and to the naval hospitals in Portsmouth , Gosport , and Plymouth .
26 His lectures and writings played a considerable part in shaping fundamental chemical theory , and in several respects laid the foundations for the theory of valency .
27 In addition , since US banks had limited placing power in Europe , European banks played a major part in distribution .
28 An educated and cultivated gentleman , Bell 's travels played an important part in the formation of his taste , both as a connoisseur of paintings and as an architect .
29 After the Western allies turned the western part of Germany into a sovereign state , the Soviets followed suit and the German Democratic Republic was founded on 7 October 1949 .
30 In visiting a Catholic school , O'Neill might have thought he was doing no more than acknowledging that Catholics formed a sizeable part of the population of Northern Ireland and that Catholic schools were largely supported from public funds which his government administered .
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