Example sentences of "part of the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.

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1 Part of the parents ' case had rested on the following argument : within the school which the child attended a decision had been taken to include her in a remedial class ; thus , the special educational provision that should be made for her had already been determined ; so a statement ( under section 7(1) of the Act ) should follow .
2 The departure of a ‘ special ’ child may be particularly problematic because he or she may have invoked part of the parents ' own history , or because the child performed a vital role in the family such as ‘ go-between ’ or communicator .
3 The playgroup leader will usually offer her observations as part of the parents ' contribution to the Statement .
4 Although Mr de Klerk is accused by the ANC of meddling with the list to get his own people in , there is no doubt that the days when the SABC was part of the Nationalists ' mighty propaganda machine are over .
5 There would probably be no need to transfer substantial assets of the business into the new company and the appropriate step might be to allocate part of the solicitors ' clientele to the company partner to establish it as having a regular practice .
6 It did n't help when Westminster enforced successive cuts in pay as part of the public-services ' sacrifice in relation to the national economic crisis of 1931 and 1932 .
7 But New Forum , the leading force in the independent opposition movement , remained sceptical yesterday , saying that the offer could be part of the Communists ' attempt to regain the initiative .
8 This provoked fierce opposition on the part of the Magistrates ' Association , however , which viewed it as an unwarranted attack on the independence of magistrates , and just five years later the measure was repealed as a result .
9 The urge to number and name things was an integral part of the Victorians ' desire to dominate Nature .
10 But it was no part of the courts ' function to replace the discretionary decision of the public authority with one of its own .
11 Which was how the Khan of the Merkuts — along with his escort , his retinue , and the principal members of his family — came to be crossing a bridge which was erected at the height of the second floor across several of the principal buildings in the better part of the merchants ' quarter of Kinsai .
12 The first branch to ‘ go live ’ was Maidstone over a year ago , and the PSIONS are now well and truly part of the technicians ' armoury for pest prevention .
13 In the end , as we shall see , the cost of decommissioning became a vital part of the accountants ' nightmare that laid the nuclear beast to rest .
14 Copenhagen 's manager does not need to watch Linfield ; he was in Tbilisi as part of the Blues ' party and had the home match videoed .
15 The 27-year-old Gill , part of the Quakers ' promotion squad last season , first interested Cardiff coach Eddie May at the start of the present campaign .
16 Her heart thudded painfully as he leaned over the high beige bench top that bordered this part of the nurses ' station and spoke absently to Deana .
17 It is part of the players ' contracts that all the semi-finalists must turn up to the function after the World Open title .
18 In a recent colleges survey ( admittedly with a return response of less than 40% ) 80% of the advanced instruction programmes which existed were timetabled and 60% of them were a formal part of the students ' courses .
19 Tutors regard entry into the competition as a serious part of the students ' general training and there is a growing trend to make it a set part of the final year 's curriculum .
20 Production of the magazine has become part of the students ' training , with proceeds being used to provide additional resources for the courses involved .
21 Articles in magazines are less certainly described as criticism , for their main topics may be personalities or history , and art may be only a small part of the writers ' account .
22 Because wages are part of the employers ' costs , which they must seek to minimise if they are to survive , workers experience a ceaseless downward pressure on their standards of living .
23 Non-intrusive research is also an important part of the zoos ' purposes .
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 After a while it became part of the nomes ' world , so that when it stopped the silence came as a shock .
26 Why had it formed such an important part of the terrorists ' plan ?
27 ‘ I am concerned that if I now have to respond fully to that part of the plaintiffs ' order of 5 June dealing with the various alleged payments my position vis-à-vis the police investigation may well be prejudiced .
28 Held , dismissing the appeal , that the liability imposed under section 1(1) of the Act of 1978 was intended by Parliament , by virtue of section 6(1) of the Act , to enable claims for contribution to be made as between parties who had no claim for contribution under the general law , and applied whenever a plaintiff had a cause of action against a third party in respect of the same damage as gave rise to his cause of action against the defendant , irrespective of the legal basis of the liability ; and that , accordingly , the defence of ex turpi causa non oritur actio could not be relied upon in answer to a claim for contribution under the Act ; and that , since there was sufficient possibility of the third party being found liable for some part of the plaintiffs ' loss , there were no grounds for striking out the third party notice ( post , pp. 1022H — 1023A , G–H , 1024G — 1025D ) .
29 It 's all part of the schools ' ethos — do n't let blindness get in your way .
30 As part of the pensioners ' day of action , Age Concern Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Pensioners ' Convention will launch the publication ‘ Maximising Mobility ’ .
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