Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] been a part " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previously , lib-lab trade unionists had merely been a part of a bourgeois-led radical coalition directed mainly at contesting parliamentary elections . |
| 2 | Chemistry had always been a part of a medical training , with its role in pharmacy ; but the organic chemistry which Liebig had pioneered promised deeper-level explanations in biology . |
| 3 | Sport had always been a part of village life and Halling has a long association with all forms of sport . |
| 4 | Apart from these two central institutions of the court , the Chamber and the Household-below-Stairs , there were several offices , known later as ‘ the standing offices ’ , which had once been a part of the royal Household and had now moved to its fringes . |
| 5 | Stopping outside , he checked his watch , and was rewarded with a sudden sharp blast from upslope , followed by a rain of small pieces of wood and clay brick which had once been a part of the Bagi . |
| 6 | The sort of ‘ gallivanting about ’ that he seemed always to associate with her had never been a part of her life at all . |