Example sentences of "be part [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had already been part of the theatre working as an ASM at the Cambridge Arts Theatre , not with the University but with the |
| 2 | He has been part of the decision-making process to broaden the game 's amateur ideals : ‘ The players now have a very square deal worked out ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ It must be strange , ’ she said slowly , ‘ to have been part of the Revolution and then to find yourself on the opposite side from people you fought beside . ’ |
| 4 | While World Cup matters have only been part of the Board 's committee business this week , the speculation as to whether Welsh reservations would carry weight has been immense . |
| 5 | It was in 1982 that TMAM finally moved in to the airfield , taking over two pre-fabricated huts that had been part of the Station in the late 1940s and early 1950s . |
| 6 | They had n't got as far as stating any intention on that subject — for the simple reason that marriage had n't been part of the plan . |
| 7 | Her ravishment too had been part of the scheme of things . |
| 8 | McLaren , the 22-year-old Hearts defender , told me recently that when he made his World Cup debut against Italy ( the game where he was asked to mark Roberto Baggio ) , the fact that he 'd been part of the squad at the European Championship finals , as well as playing a couple of games on the tour of North America last year , were of immeasurable assistance in making the step up . |
| 9 | He 'd been born there and the Burnses had been part of the village for generations . |
| 10 | And even Hoggatt 's Laboratory , blood or no blood , had been part of the village for over seventy years , while Chevisham Manor had stood for nearly three times as long . |
| 11 | And still without needing to turn my head , but looking straight to the front , and walking at the same even pace along the path , I was conscious of a man perched motionless on the top bar of the gate , one leg over , so still that he might have been part of the gate itself . |
| 12 | Oats are the safest and most natural grain to give to horses ; they have been part of the development of the horse over the last two thousand years . |
| 13 | ‘ It might have been part of the equipment those scientists dropped into the sea when they were here , ’ he suggested . |
| 14 | It did little for the image of a man who has been part of the backbone of the team for so long , and was playing in his eighty-seventh Test . |
| 15 | These clubs have been part of the backbone of British rugby for decades , but Mr Salmon would obviously be quite happy to see them fade into extinction . |
| 16 | Could that have been part of the problem , I wonder ? |
| 17 | The landaus have been part of the scene for longer than the trams . |
| 18 | The rubbish tip has been part of the scene since we moved to our market street seven years ago . |
| 19 | Yeltsin assured the miners that the transfer had been part of the pact which he and eight other republican leaders had signed with USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev a week earlier [ see p. 38129 ] . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm looking forward to the final official opening of the Tunnel , and I 'm delighted to have been part of the support structure that has made it possible . |
| 21 | He usually comes to a struggling club with nothing to lose but this time he 's been part of the slump . |
| 22 | The gift of a slave-girl to his daughter ( verse 24 ) may have been part of the dowry . |
| 23 | It had been part of the creed of childhood , indeed , the whole of life , unquestioned as so many other maxims were unquestioned , respect for parents and elders , the courtesy of men towards women and the inferiority of women to men , and original sin . |
| 24 | Not ideal , Ah 'm told , but that may have been part of the test . ’ |
| 25 | Most people er recognise that er being able to park in a space in a busy street is an important part of driving , and the surprise is really that it 's never been part of the test before . |
| 26 | Indeed , all three of them would probably have willingly paid to have been part of the occasion which is now firmly entrenched in French sporting history . |
| 27 | Constructed as a spoof documentary about a political candidate for the US Senate whose promotional ads are pop videos and whose campaign bus is a mobile trading floor , it joins the dots of a diagram — Eighties politics as the flip-side of Sixties counter-culture — which has long been part of the landscape ( and which could do with an update ) . |
| 28 | Independent readers , with their heroic sponsorship of The Garden Venture , have already been part of the quest for a new operatic voice . |
| 29 | The earlier duchy of Aquitaine had been part of the comté of Poitou , but the duchy of Gascony was an independent entity . |
| 30 | As a founder member of the Surrey Cricket Council , he had been part of the framework whose aim is to ensure that cricket in Surrey , at levels up to the first-class game , will prosper . |