Example sentences of "[det] is [adv] [conj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not be misled by thinking that this is either because of strict conformity or regulations laid down . |
| 2 | This is both because of the moral principle involved , and because , as Polsky believes , the researcher will be spotted by the criminal group in a very short time , and will then be in trouble . |
| 3 | This is presumably because of the prospect of subsequent litigation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is partly because of his super-conciliatory attitude to the doctors . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This is partly because of their ephemeral nature and partly because disclosure would often reveal either that very sensitive subjects were under consideration or that we had something in train about which we were not ready to make an announcement . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Every bride looks beautiful — this is partly because of what she is wearing and partly because she is usually glowing with happiness . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This is partly because of a number of important changes that have taken place in the scale of the protest , the targets against which it has been directed , and the tactics that have been employed , but particularly because of some fundamental changes in the broader political social and economic context in which the protest is now taking place . |
| 14 | This is partly because of the importance of the interests at stake in immigration decisions : personal safety and liberty . |
| 15 | This is partly because of the presence of a remarkably heterogenous group of pictures displayed under the name of Giorgione . |
| 16 | This is partly because of Marx 's strictures on Utopian socialism . |
| 17 | This is partly because of the preeminent roles played by the senses of vision and hearing in Man and partly due to historical reasons . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This is partly because of strong demand for light refined products like petrol : Middle East oil produces less petrol for each barrel refined than Brent . |
| 23 | This is partly because of the marked variability of colonic motor function and the short recording periods usually used , generally not exceeding three hours . |
| 24 | However , serum triglyceride levels did not prove to be a significant factor for coronary heart disease in this multivariate analysis and this is probably because of the correction made for the inverse relationship between triglycerides and HDL . |
| 25 | This is probably because of the ethical and practical considerations . |
| 26 | Mars , compared to the Earth , may be depleted in H , C and N , and it seems fairly certain that Venus is heavily depleted in H. The surfaces of Mercury and the Moon are very heavily depleted in all volatiles , and in the main this is probably because of a smaller initial endowment . |
| 27 | This is probably because of impaired gall bladder contraction . |
| 28 | This is largely because of its enormous potential for dating geological processes and sedimentary sequences . |
| 29 | This is largely because of interest changes . |
| 30 | In contrast , overweight people seem to get much less strong and effective stop signals from the body , and this is largely because of the other factor , the major clue , which our eating-behaviour expert would be using in his ‘ guess who 's overweight ’ game . |