Example sentences of "a part of the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is knowledge of a kind which relates facts to one another and illuminates , however faintly , a part of the great scene of life .
2 This is a part of the great design apparent in nature .
3 The butis would no doubt bless them and see them a part of the divine process .
4 A region is mediated in our everyday life in the form of various symbols , which are the same for all individuals in the one region , though the meanings associated with them will always be construed personally on the basis of the individual 's life situation and biography … though the regions of a society obtain their ultimate personal meanings in the practices of everyday life , these meanings can not be totally reduced to experiences that constitute everyday life , since a region bears with it institutionally mediated practices and relations , the most significant being the history of the region as a part of the spatial structure of the society in question .
5 One needs also to take into account implicit dimensions , for these are very much a part of the rhetorical structure of attitudes .
6 It is usually the case that what is specified , against a certain background assumption , is a part of the nomic correlate of something else .
7 Government incentives , both in the North Sea and in most other parts of the world , are designed to ensure continuous ploughing back into exploration , because after all , that is the basis for the future prosperity of the country , taking , as most countries do , so large a part of the ultimate revenue .
8 Sheer misinterpretation of a part of the present surface as degraded terrace when in fact it was not .
9 Their world-view was essentially animatistic : every living thing and every outwardly inanimate thing too was a part of the living cosmos , and therefore imbued with something of the divine spirit .
10 Ancient weapons are still very much a part of the martial arts , although they are now outdated given the range of military hardware now available .
11 ‘ The house once belonged to a Turkish prince when the Lebanon was still a part of the Ottoman Empire , ’ a man said , tying the belt of his white dressing-gown as he descended the stairs .
12 After some centuries of independent statehood it became a part of the Ottoman Empire and then came under Russian influence from the early nineteenth century .
13 OBVERSE : Snapshot of the Coco-de-Mer , an extremely mysterious fruit that looks like a part of the female body and grows only on one island in the Seychelles group .
14 These feelings were reinforced by the Orthodox Church , which was a part of the Eastern ( Byzantine ) communion .
15 This presented the Communists as a part of the federal Labour movement , and made it necessary for sections of the Labour Party to give serious consideration to Communist aims and activities .
16 The Posolskii Prikaz ( Department of Embassies ) had for several generations been a part of the central administration , but Russia 's relations with the outside world were still very limited .
17 Another component has been reflected from points other than P. Only a part of the received signal represents energy reflected from point P. The effects of scattering diminish the usefulness of shorter wavelengths for remote sensing .
18 These ‘ significant others ’ over time actually become a part of the psychic structure of the child from which develops the concept of self .
19 Also a part of the overall plan to boost research is the European Strategic Programme for Research and Development in Information Technologies ( ESPRIT ) .
20 Since the field of any living thing is an ordered pattern it must be a part of the overall general pattern which represents the Universe .
21 A dye appears coloured because its molecules absorb light from a part of the visible spectrum .
22 Indeed both women and men were so baptized and entered the people of God which was the church — in differentiation from the Jewish background in which only men were circumcised and fully a part of the religious people of Israel .
23 Whilst the theory of the ‘ fourth estate ’ placed the press in an antagonistic and inquisitional role to the state and its institutions , in practice in the 19th century , the press was ‘ a part of the political machine ’ .
24 Second , we should not forget that political parties are only a part of the political system and they are not in sole control of Britain 's economic destiny .
25 Er , the European project goes on and for many of the newer generations in this place , it 's not longer an article of faith er but a part of the political landscape that has to be dealt with on merit and it 's all the more ludicrous therefore Mr Deputy Speaker , that the Conservatives ' internal divisions over Maastricht have led to a situation where candidates for the ever more important European elections are only now being selected in certain seats , just fourteen weeks before the election .
26 But there is little doubt in my mind that the future will only go to the large company if that large company is really able to release the energies and the synergies that ought to be a part of the grand design and make more than the sum of the parts .
27 But its beauty and its form are a part of the total economy of nature .
28 DNA is only a part of the total patterning process of a creature , not its only formative mould .
29 But he is worried that track charges will form too large a part of the total costs .
30 It is inevitably a part of the normal grieving process that people search for the dead person in a multitude of ways , but it is very necessary for friends of the bereaved to help them choose carefully .
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