Example sentences of "[conj] partly as a " in BNC.

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1 We shall see in the next section that partly as a result of secularisation religion has become privatised and inward looking .
2 The Ehrenreichs claim that partly as a reaction against the actions of the government ‘ large numbers of young people pushed professional-managerial class radicalism to its limits and found themselves , ultimately , at odds with their own class ’ .
3 Many disabled , ( partly because of their disability and partly as a result of the inadequacy of public transport ) , are completely dependent on private or other vehicles to get out at all .
4 Partly for historical reasons , such as the impact the Poor Law made on their memories , and partly as a result of their attitudes towards financial ‘ dependence ’ on the state , there are grounds for believing that some of these factors are more acutely felt by older people than other age groups .
5 Paul Kammerer had unwittingly fallen into an invidious trap , partly as a result of the circumstances of his times and partly as a consequence of the vicious narrow-mindedness that thinkers of every age and generation are prone to in defence of their personal commitment to particular theories .
6 Contracting out by local authorities has increased under the Conservative government — partly voluntarily and partly as a response to changes in the law requiring them to do so for certain activities .
7 The back to nursing movement has established itself over the past five years , partly in response to a national shortage of qualified staff , and partly as a result of the UKCC 's stated commitment to introduce mandatory updating programmes for nurses and health visitors returning to practice after a specified minimum break in service .
8 Papal influence over the English church had been significantly eroded during the course of the fifteenth century , partly as a consequence of late fourteenth-century legislation , such as the statutes of Provisors and Praemunire , and partly as a consequence of the international political situation .
9 Finally , another category of prisoners — those held in ‘ protective custody ’ — has been greatly reduced in size recently , partly by the Juvenile Justice Act and partly as a result of the case of Hussainara Khatoon v.
10 But the interpenetration of mathematics and magic in the school is well attested ; Dodds , for example , sees Pythagoreanism partly as ‘ a development of shamanism and partly as a development of number mysticism and the speculations about cosmic harmony ’ .
11 Partly as a result of a slow trickle through the barriers , and partly as a result of internal inconsistencies , the analytic tradition has recently shown signs of moving from the strictly aloof position it adopted in the heyday of conceptual analysis .
12 Partly out of over-confidence and partly as a result of the double pressure of having to sit still under a bombardment while their property was burned and looted under their noses , the garrison made a foray against Richard 's camp , placed temptingly close to the walls .
13 However , partly by design and partly as a consequence of this difference in the degree of explicitness , the block exemption system has ( arguably ) reduced the incentives of firms to notify the authorities of agreements which contain clauses which might be anticompetitive .
14 2.3 As the nature and number of the learners have changed and partly as a consequence of that change ) , so has the nature of the teaching .
15 Crèches were abandoned in the early twentieth century partly for reasons of economy and partly as a result of the pressure exerted by the infant welfare movement on mothers to stay at home with their children .
16 On the other hand , Political Union was conceived late in the day , partly in response to the dramatic changes in Central Europe and partly as a complement to EMU designed to placate , if not to satisfy , the European Parliament and those favouring its strengthening .
17 The Court of Appeal stated that it was impermissible to make a finding of 100% contributory negligence , as the Act states that the plaintiff must suffer damage partly as a result of his own fault and partly as a result of the defendant 's fault .
18 All the time he talked he kept his hand on the bonnet , partly for reassurance — he was less confident than he seemed — and partly as a caress .
19 There they have operated , partly under genuine competition and partly as a monopoly controlled by a regulator .
20 He despised homosexuals , and although there were plenty of other sexually depraved aristocrats around at the time , he was unfortunate enough to have married into a family ( the Montreuils ) who had strong court connections , and it was they who made sure that he was jailed , partly to get him off their backs ( so to Speak ) and partly as an example to others .
21 Althusser 's influence declined in France after 1968 , partly as a result of the role played by the PCF , of which Althusser was a member , in the events of May 1968 , and partly as an effect of a number of critiques of his work , some of them by Althusser himself .
22 Now , partly I think as a result of the numbers being fewer , but partly as a result of simply a greater awareness of need , I think , the schools are more caring places , they do try erm not to treat erm minority groups as just annoying variants on the majority group , they try to erm think through their problems and to help to meet them .
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