Example sentences of "[be] partly [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly because of the structure of catholic nationalism in the Southern state and partly because the national unity sought by significant numbers of Northern catholic nationalists is still on the basis of the reversal of protestant — loyalist hegemony rather than a power compromise . |
| 2 | This is partly because of the speech 's length but also partly because of the difficulty of showing the advert on the BBC ; even if the corporation agreed , the manufacturers would not . |
| 3 | This is partly because of the tight political control exercised by the state , but also because in Syria refugees have always enjoyed equal rights with Syrian citizens while maintaining their own identity . |
| 4 | This is partly because of the need to make the publications truly publicly available — thus satisfying the legal requirement — and partly because their producers do not normally have any financial or other incentive to make them available online . |
| 5 | This is partly because of the great competition brought about by the flood of new records over the past two years which has prompted the major record companies to reissue at mid-price ( and sometimes in the bargain range ) many of the first generation of digital records made in the early 1980s . |
| 6 | This is partly because of the purposes which it now serves ; it is the expected language in the education system , in other social institutions ( such as the courts and business ) and in almost all published writing , and it has also spread far beyond its historical base in Britain and is used as an international language in many parts of the world . |
| 7 | This development on the green belt of Ipswich is partly because of the Conservative Government withering away the planning powers of borough councils , who in the past would have dismissed such a planning application as this , on the grounds that housing and industry should not mix and that it is desirable to have a green buffer zone between the two . |
| 8 | That is partly because of the third and biggest failing : lack of leadership . |
| 9 | This is partly because of the importance of the interests at stake in immigration decisions : personal safety and liberty . |
| 10 | This is partly because of the presence of a remarkably heterogenous group of pictures displayed under the name of Giorgione . |
| 11 | This is partly because of the preeminent roles played by the senses of vision and hearing in Man and partly due to historical reasons . |
| 12 | This is partly because of the increasing importance of employment in the service sector , much of it geared to regional and local markets and client groups , but it also has much to do with the particular circumstances of the 1980s . |
| 13 | This is partly because of the association between old age and poor housing conditions , but it is primarily because of the association between poor housing conditions and low-income owners . |
| 14 | This is partly because of the size of the corpuses needed for syntactic analysis and partly because of the accuracy required in the transcript , which has to be input in computer-readable form . |
| 15 | This is partly because of the difficulty in deciding where boundaries should be drawn , a difficulty which has increased in recent years with the development of new organizational forms ( such as ‘ hived-off ’ agencies ) and with the increasing interpenetration of the public and private sectors . |
| 16 | It is partly because of the ease with which getting your ideas onto paper has been made so simple by the PC and word processor that extra care now has to accompany the typing of every paragraph . |
| 17 | This is partly because of the marked variability of colonic motor function and the short recording periods usually used , generally not exceeding three hours . |
| 18 | Indeed it is ironic that the weaker regions of a country tend to " catch-up " most in times of expansion , and yet it is partly because of the regional differences that inflationary pressures emerge and induce policies which prevent further gains . |
| 19 | This is partly because in the sphere of culture and ideology the material conditions have changed to such an extent that what Gramsci was arguing about hegemonic processes in the 1930s has become more , not less , relevant today than it was then . |
| 20 | Comment was made this morning , er earlier on by Mr Timothy about the fact that the new settlement would be likely to generate a higher usage of transport than is the norm for Greater York , if I understood him correctly , erm , knowing the public transport system in Greater York , erm , I fail to see how he could possibly come to that conclusion , because bus services in the rural part of Greater York are very poor , clearly that 's partly because of the distribution of the rural population , and I fail to see that a settlement of the size being suggested would actually generate a level of usage of public transport any higher than that which ex already exists in the York in flat , and certainly no higher than exists within the exis existing urban area . |
| 21 | This was partly because of the fantasies in which most of the parties in Lebanon found it convenient to indulge . |
| 22 | This was partly because of the idea of national unity between Muslim and Christian Palestinians , but also because the Muslim dimension was masked during the heyday of Arab nationalism , from the 1950s until the mid-1970s . |
| 23 | It was partly because of the dominant part played by the Christian religion in that society , with its emphasis on the importance of adherence to rules as the basis for personal conduct and the need for absolute standards in the life of society . |
| 24 | This was partly because of the structure of the lexicon used which enabled efficient storage and search , and cut off non-productive alternatives at an early stage . |