Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun sg] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were part of the story of his heart and , re-read now , one recognizes that the Helen Noble of these letters is incorporated in part into the texture of poems like ‘ After you speak ’ and ‘ And you , Helen ’ : |
| 2 | However , all the ATB instructors who were part of the survey identified safety as one of the benefits . |
| 3 | The question , then , is whether the three wrappers were part of the consideration or , as Jenkins L.J . |
| 4 | These had been voluntarily sold to the Nazis , or were not repurchased by the owners who had sold them under duress , or were part of the estates of Dutch citizens who died during the war leaving no heirs . |
| 5 | These locos were part of the yard scene from June 1896 until 1959 . |
| 6 | Gestures of this kind were part of the vocabulary of politics ; an astute politician like Philip used them to great effect . |
| 7 | We were part of the woods . |
| 8 | ‘ He was so moody , ’ Fenella Fielding said , ‘ that his moods were part of the difficulty of his genius — and his temper . |
| 9 | Nylons were part of the US strategy for world domination . |
| 10 | The fans and musical instruments which become recurrent themes in the still lifes were part of the equipment or decoration of many typical advanced studios in Montmartre ; Braque who had been responsible in 1908 for the introduction of musical iconography into Cubist painting was furthermore seriously interested in music . |
| 11 | After a hearing in 1976 , the Chief Commons Commissioner found that the road verges were part of the highway , and so did not fall within the definition of ‘ common land ’ in section 22(1) of the Act . |
| 12 | The plaintiffs claimed that certain grass verges were part of the manorial lands of the manor and wished to re-litigate the question of whether the road verges were part of the highway . |
| 13 | To provide some much-needed improvement the InterCity director decided to transfer ten HSTs to the Midland — five from the Great Western , two from the East Coast main line plus three which were part of the build for the Cross Country ( North East-South West ) routes . |
| 14 | The lectures were part of the East Anglia local section 's effort to mark the 150th anniversary of the RSC . |
| 15 | The binary policy , which is central to the history of higher education from its elaboration in the second half of the 1960s , and intimately related to the history of the CNAA 's own policies and operations , is explained by many or all of these factors , but can not be separated from perceptions of the roles and attitudes of the universities that we have previously discussed , and which were part of the decision-making environment of the mid- and late 1960s . |
| 16 | The farm itself housed twenty-five Czechoslovaks who were part of the overspill from Whittingham . |
| 17 | St Theresa 's writings were part of the tradition of Christian mysticism . |
| 18 | The £1,000 worth of gifts were part of the loot taken in a raid on a courier depot at Leicester . |
| 19 | The skins who patronised this shop , every Sunday and most of the rest of the week , were part of the skinhead revival . |
| 20 | It has no baying studio audience so that , if you laugh , you do so as if you were part of the scene . |
| 21 | Riding , she had noticed how straight he held himself in the saddle , how unruffled he had been when leading his horse across a fast-flowing stream , how easily he brought his mount to jump a wall ; as though he were part of the animal he rode . |
| 22 | The strategic forces on RF territory were part of the CIS joint armed forces . |
| 23 | One of the farmhouses that were part of the Cetinale Estate has been skilfully converted into residences whilst maintaining its many original architectural features . |
| 24 | To Marian it seemed that she and Allen were being overwhelmed and carried along by the rush of sound and the race of the sun up the sky , as though they were part of the birds ' song and the general triumphant awakening of the dawn . |
| 25 | I remember well , during the air-raids of the forties when I was in London and we waited as darkness came for the first sirens and the deep breath to get one 's courage up , that we felt we were part of the will of the capital of England . |
| 26 | It seems evident from the widespread popularity of the enactment of the hunt that simple timber arenas were provided in all large and probably even in small settlements , for they were part of the activities at the seasonal festivals . |
| 27 | The applicants in the main proceedings observed in limine that ( a ) 36 of their 95 fishing vessels were part of the United Kingdom fleet during the period 1973 to 1978 ( the reference period for the allocation of the quotas which were introduced in January 1983 ) ; ( b ) 85 of those 95 vessels were registered and in use as British fishing vessels by January 1983 , and ( c ) of those 85 vessels , 42 had always been British flag vessels and 43 were ex-Spanish flag boats which had transferred to the British flag before 1983 . |
| 28 | Prior to the division , consciousness and thought were connected to the process of material behaviour ; thought and action were part of the activity of all human beings . |
| 29 | If you were part of the trust meetings and saw the degree of work that he does do regularly on our behalf it is quite considerable he does n't do it for nothing ! |
| 30 | These factors , together with others they identified , were part of the industrialization process and , they concluded , explained the similarities in rates of vertical social mobility . |