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Example sentences for "formed part"

  • It formed part of the dower of Susanna Fontanarossa, for, as we have already seen, it could not be sold without her permission.

  • The One Hundred and Fortieth lost 133 men at Gettysburg, where it formed part of the force that occupied Little Round Top at the critical moment, and helped to drag up Hazlett's battery.

  • At Gettysburg it formed part of the brigade that annihilated the Louisiana Tigers.

  • At Gettysburg it formed part of the force that seized Little Round Top.

  • During the summer it formed part of a detached corps commanded by Major-General Fagel, and encamped near Nieuport.

  • Whether these walls belonged to a chamber or formed part of the southern face of the palace could not now be determined, as they were on the very brink of the platform.

  • The workmen having been then ordered to uncover the bull which was still partly buried in the rubbish, it was found that adjoining it were other sculptures, and that it formed part of an exterior facade.

  • There also the platform, on which the great palace stood, formed part of the walls,--a fact for which I can scarcely offer any satisfactory explanation.

  • It formed part of Nova Scotia until 1769, when it was made a separate province.

  • It formed part of the western route of the fur traders under both French and British rule.

  • WM= Formed part of reserve in battle of the Plains, 189.

  • Some of the Clouded-Yellows--butterflies appertaining to the genus Colias--formed part of the Oriental migration.

  • Baur, goes to show that these islands must have formed part of the mainland of South America at no distant date.

  • Many of these plants then, and also some of the animals I have referred to, formed part of the older stream of migration which entered Europe from Asia Minor (vide Fig.

  • It can be shown also that Sardinia and Corsica formed part of the continent of Europe, and that their present fauna and flora reached them by migration on land.

  • It formed part, as in Arabic at the present day, of many a greeting, and is one of the most noteworthy points of the Semitic languages.

  • In all probability artists and artisans also formed part of it, though their position may have been sometimes as bad as that of many who toiled in servitude, for the slaves seem, on the whole, to have been exceedingly well treated.

  • The Spanish church, however, produced many and very eminent writings on those particular sciences which, at that time, formed part of the general course of their studies.

  • From the summit of the glorious old relic we can sweep the whole arch of the horizon, from the pale blue hills of Wales on the one hand, to the brown heathy wastes that once formed part of the great forest of Macclesfield on the other.

  • Eumenes presented the country to the Romans, and subsequently it formed part of the province of Asia.

  • Thus Antaradus, and the territory about it, formed part of the domain of Aradus, to which it lay opposite; thus Sarepta came within the dominion of Sidon, etc.

  • Ezion-geber, at the head of the Gulf of Akabah, formed part of Solomon’s dominion.

  • The Molise, on the other hand, formed part of the Lombard duchy of Benevento, and was placed under the Justiciarius of Terra di Lavoro by Frederick II.

  • In the 18th century it formed part of the dominion of Ahmad Khan Durani, and so remained under his son Timur.

  • It formed part of the contents of the Chateau of Pau, and belonged to Jeanne d'Albret, mother of Henri Quatre, who was born at Pau in 1553.

  • In January, the 23d formed part of the expedition to South Carolina, but did nothing, owing to a misunderstanding between Gens.

  • On the 7th of April, the 17th formed part of an expedition undertaken for the relief of the besieged city; but upon approaching a place called Blounts' Mills, the enemy was discovered in force strongly entrenched.

  • On the 5th of July, the 17th formed part of an expedition under Gen.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about two; business letter; cook them; delegate from; departed spirits; distant lands; entreat thee; essential parts; exceedingly good; formed from; formed like; formed part; formed the; fresh lemon; haired cadet; medullary rays; naked rock; naval base; persons living; rial roots; suddenly came; this that; wider sense; will treat; wire basket