Example sentences of "in part because " in BNC.

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1 The cases came in a rush , in part because social services started referring a backlog of children because there was someone at the hospital prepared to diagnose , she says , and because Dr Wyatt started asking whether sexual abuse might be the problem in cases which had failed to respond to previous treatment .
2 The deviance of ‘ mouths ’ was in this instance amplified by direct provocation by the police , in part because one member of the force wanted some ‘ skulls ’ , but also because they were elevated into ‘ gougers ’ : the ‘ lip ’ was typical of that of gougers and they fitted the social class from which gougers come .
3 Niche marketers usually develop an international outlook early in their development ; in part because their domestic market is normally comparatively small , and also because their unique position in a product or market niche can be relatively easily extended .
4 No doubt both tendencies arose in part because the voters themselves became more strongly partisan at that time ; but it also seems likely that television became more strictly impartial ( thereby offending both Labour and Conservative partisans more ) while the press became more stridently partisan ( Chapter 6 ) .
5 This was in part because it was simply not working .
6 This new centralism was in part because the Thatcher government perceived these institutions as potentially so damaging that they needed the maximum of intervention to suppress them .
7 It was in part because of this love of the specially religious life , and in part because of the affection for the long history of the Church , that he led another pilgrimage ( 1959 ) of several thousand people to Holy Island on the coast of Northumberland and even The Times had a piece about the archbishop walking barefoot .
8 It was in part because of this love of the specially religious life , and in part because of the affection for the long history of the Church , that he led another pilgrimage ( 1959 ) of several thousand people to Holy Island on the coast of Northumberland and even The Times had a piece about the archbishop walking barefoot .
9 There are problems in assessing these claims , in part because of disputes over the starting date — 1979 , when Mrs Thatcher came to office , or 1981 , the low point of the recession — and whether comparison is made with the 1970s or 1960s .
10 Over fifty years later in 1975 , another Conservative leader , Edward Heath , was to be overthrown , in part because , in March 1974 , he had proposed a coalition with the Liberals and , in October 1974 , he had proposed a government of national unity , Thus , among Conservatives , the motives for an election were clear : for those left out of the government , the desire to secure a Conservative majority for protection ; for the leadership , a desire to reunite the party , and simple self-preservation .
11 Older people are more susceptible to cold , in part because information from the brain in response to a lower blood temperature and a cool skin is acted upon less readily by the systems in the body that normally carry out those instructions .
12 Errors sometimes occur , in part because an innocuous substance may trigger a positive .
13 In part because the other detector is already looking more expensive , there will be a lot of pressure to keep this new one cheap .
14 Khrushchev survived to recount his disgust in part because he was a self-taught country boy .
15 If Zuwaya disliked policemen as a category , and took pride in not being related to any , that was in part because in the past ordinary people got their main experience of corruption and venality in the first instance from the police , and that reputation stuck ; and partly also because they recognized that policemen had divided loyalties and could not be trusted to be loyal exclusively to their kinsmen .
16 That was only in part because of good sense .
17 The question is interesting in part because of an erroneous answer that is sometimes given to it .
18 In particular they believe that their beliefs make a difference to the consequences of their acts , that their acts impose duties , confer rights , grant permissions , and so on , in part because they believe that their acts do so .
19 This suggestion has proved unpopular , in part because simple non-reinforced pre-exposure is not a procedure that , according to most current theories , should be capable of generating inhibition .
20 The schools were expensive , and necessarily exclusive , in part because of the considerable burdens of providing boarding education .
21 Romney Marsh was flooded as a defence against both Napoleon and Hitler , and Calais was lost in 1557 in part because the sluices were not opened in time to flood out the besiegers .
22 This has been in part because the universities have a perfectly general responsibility for disseminating among schools up-to-date advances in knowledge and theoretical changes within disciplines , but also , more specifically , through the Local Examination Boards they have been in a position to determine the syllabuses for public examinations , and so to a large extent to dictate a curriculum even for those pupils at school who may never themselves enter the door of a university .
23 Under political pressure , and in part because the banks are in any case controlled by their customers , the banks usually comply .
24 Such ‘ a profound confrontation ’ has not yet occurred in Britain , perhaps in part because issues of cost and economics have been more easily concealed within a universal health care service such as the National Health Service , than they are within more market-driven systems .
25 The move was necessary in part because the limited finances of the club , stretched by the buying of Stephenson , made impossible the large-scale buying of ready-made players at high transfer fees .
26 No large-scale land reform or redistribution has taken place , in part because of restrictions placed on the government by the pre-independence Lancaster House agreement .
27 The committees could find ‘ a nice place for a nice boy ’ , wrote Bray , but the problem remained untouched , in part because apprenticeship alone was no solution .
28 If teachers remain sceptical it is in part because many actors at all levels ( including the Secretary of State himself ) still think simply in terms of adding ( a ) to ( b ) and ( c ) without modifying the relations between them .
29 They point out that nursery rhymes are not nursery rhymes for nothing ; it could be that the genuine Turkish nursery rhyme is intrinsically more memorable than the nonsense rhyme ; nursery rhymes , after all , catch on in part because they have an innately pleasing rhythm .
30 As you know , I have been wildly opposed to PEPs since their introduction , in part because I 'm a great believer in removing tax breaks rather than distorting the investment climate by introducing new ones .
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