Example sentences of "[vb base] part " in BNC.
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1 | To maintain her riskless arbitrage , Mary was instantly required to sell her holding in Metal Bashers Ltd , buy shares in British Telecommunications to bring her holding up to 10% of her portfolio and sell part of her holding in each of the other 99 companies to reduce their average weight in her portfolio to 0.909% . |
2 | And I mean part of the point of doing the training of course is to get the hang of how to handle that . |
3 | And I mean it is your sort of second home , and the guys that you work with every every week , I mean sort of become , I mean it 's a bit of a cliche to say , but I mean part of a family that you living out there that you live with out there and it is a real I mean when you think of the number that was lost , I mean there were a lot of close friends involved in it . |
4 | but it would just wear off they 'd think well you know it 's not such a big thing now , I mean it 's not , I mean part of the fun is the risk for a lot of people . |
5 | I mean part of it is what I think and part of it is that I think that I like it because it works , that these things — I basically am unconvinced much of the modern tradition . |
6 | The first is the ‘ poverty trap ’ , well recognized in open employment , whereby those who acquire poorly paid employment lose part or all of their social security ‘ income support ’ benefits . |
7 | Lose part of the garden or something . |
8 | ANDREW SMITH 'S TIP : I change part of the water in the rearing tank about once every other day with water of the same quality and temperature . |
9 | At the moment I change part of the water and rinse out the foam insert in the filter about every ten days , but I also feed the fish daily , so cleaning is necessary . |
10 | Of course , what some people mean is ‘ Let's rewrite history and delete Part II of the Companies Act 1989 ’ . |
11 | A thick stolon was much delayed in its passage ; at one place it was forced to turn at right angles to its former course ; at another place it could not pass through the pins , and the hinder part became bowed ; it then curved upwards and passed through an opening between the upper part of some pins which happen to diverge ; it then descended and finally emerged through the crowd ’ ( Darwin , 1880 ) . |
12 | The hermit crab partly avoids this complicated and hazardous process by having a shell-less hinder part and protecting it with a discarded mollusc shell , switching into a new one in a minute or so whenever it has the need . |
13 | The occiput is the hinder part of the epicranium between the vertex and the neck ; it is rarely present as a distinct sclerite . |
14 | Obviously , if you canter part of the way you will be able to walk . |
15 | As chairman of this group , I obviously have financial people , accountants , treasury people , lawyers , personnel people , property people and so on who all make part of a team . |
16 | Now the Conservatives want to sell off the building and develop part of the land . |
17 | The political parties warmed up for a general election by bickering over whether the new health trusts remain part of the national health service . |
18 | Dada is an event that took place between 1916 and 1922 releasing such creative energies that its reverberations and influences remain part of our daily lives : particularly among the young at heart and the rebellious . |
19 | Males are generally the more mobile sex socially ; females commonly remain part of the same social unit throughout their lives and their relationships often provide a basic stability to it . |
20 | Some of the discussion of the informal sector and the Turner thesis suggest that , for a minority , there may be small improvements in housing or occupation , but the majority remain part of the mass of the urban poor . |
21 | I think that those letters show a wholly understandable sense of frustration , but the House of Lords , before which an appeal is pending , has shown uncertainty about whether the provisions of the Shops Act 1950 remain part of our domestic law . |
22 | Win a Renault Clio Solve part two of our plant identity parade and you 've the chance to win a fantastic new car . |
23 | Friends say part of their problems stem from a bitter disagreement over Mia 's wish to adopt yet more children . |
24 | Two things to do with you today mainly one is to whip through at least part of the isomers work and , I say part of it because you 'll be coming back to other parts of it a bit later on when you 've , for example , we 'll coming back to erm , isomers work . |
25 | The first problem is encountered when the sub-assemblies use common parts ; say part PS is the same as part PI . |
26 | Now , we talked about attention as being a process whereby we could explain how it is that , with all the information that we receive , or our senses receive , that we only process part of it , and we saw that within the information processing model . |
27 | Yet the campaigns of the 1340s and 1350s do not seem to have generated such political tension at home : victory and profit undoubtedly provide part of the explanation , but so too do changes in the methods of military recruitment and a conciliatory approach on the part of the king to the question of taxation . |
28 | The distinction between supervision and review and the discussion of the differing roles of the Court of Appeal and House of Lords provide part of the answer to this question . |
29 | Housing , health and social work each provide part of the finance and the management of the project may be by a committee representing all three authorities or may be taken on by one of the participating organisations or by a voluntary body which specialises in carrying for dementia sufferers . |
30 | And they provide part of the norm against which we can evaluate our attempts at organised , careful , refined , precise expression . |