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

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1 It is part of teachers ' daily experience .
2 As I have already suggested , transmission styles are much more widespread than this , though : so familiar a part of teachers ' experience , in fact , that their practice quickly becomes a matter of habit and routine , of taken-for-granted competence , not strategic choice .
3 Shares and warrants should be reported as part of shareholders ' funds .
4 ANOTHER MAJOR PART OF FIBRES ' business is its carpet materials .
5 The allocations of SDRs by the IMF have been very limited , ( no new issues since 1981 ) and consequently SDRs are only a small part of countries ' reserves .
6 Evidence of disparity on the part of magistrates ' courts was provided by a Home Office study ( Tarling and Weatheritt , 1979 ; but see also Hood , 1962 , 1972 ; Tarling et al. , 1995 ) of 30 large courts selected at random .
7 These settlements can still be attractive , and the larger part of authorities ' stock can therefore remain unprotected .
8 The main part of Residents ' Association case is that the amount of relief afforded by any western relief road , does not justify the environmental damage which that road will cause .
9 Such an aggregate will only equal the value of total output if those goods which are produced but not sold are also included — this item , which is called ‘ net changes in stocks and work in progress ’ , is normally counted as part of firms ' investment spending ( which is logical since such goods are for future rather than current consumption ) .
10 On another it is an exploration into how an abused child becomes an abuser — and the novel draws its painful resonance from the fact that this theme is part of Banks ' own experience : ‘ Alcoholism , domestic violence and abandonment , those are the three essential characteristics of my early family life , ’ he says .
11 Quite something to witness , and often not part of feminists ' vocabulary .
12 This makes it difficult to tell whether HP and other retail credit , as a part of consumers ' overall spending , is now increasing or declining .
13 Opportunities to study for recognised qualifications through sponsored schemes are becoming an indispensable part of organisations ' management development programmes and an invaluable means of recruiting and retaining highly-qualified and motivated staff .
14 They have considerable countervailing power against intermediaries , as placing power is an essential part of dealers ' strength to win mandates and again institutional investors ' sophistication entails symmetric information .
15 As the material prepared by the Scottish Office was so extensive , it was expected that the use of this would form a major part of boards ' training activity .
16 Turnbull admitted it has formed a large part of forwards ' practice where the pack try to shift as many as 16 others , which concentrates the mind wonderfully on body positions .
17 On company cars , he continued the policy of his predecessor , Mr Nigel Lawson , in recognising that perks provided by employers are just as much part of employees ' remuneration as salaries are , and should therefore be just as taxable .
18 The use of copper as a protection for the underwater parts of ships ' hulls had been suggested in England as early as 1708 and by the 1770s it had been generally adopted throughout the navy .
19 For this reason , the FRED does not require that the component parts of shareholders ' funds be analysed .
20 Then swiftly she launches into a staccato attack on political buffoonery and the Government in general before lashing at the crass assumptions that men make about women , and reaching the parts of chaps ' angst-filled sexuality that mere innuendo could never find .
21 In each of these contexts — HMI reports , APU exercises or national reading surveys — to move from national assessment to a local authority assessment and then to a school 's performance ( summed up in the achievement of its individual pupils ) provided a method of finding out whether , in some of the measurable parts of schools ' work , matters were standing still or edging forward .
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