Example sentences of "partly [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partly for that reason , too many projects yield poor returns . |
| 2 | Partly for that reason , Japan and the Asian tigers of South Korea , Hong Kong , Singapore and Taiwan became prosperous through trade with America and Europe , not within Asia . |
| 3 | He refused to allow the party access to his fund , and partly for this reason the Liberals were forced to accept a drastic reduction in the number of candidatures , from 513 in 1929 to 112 in 1931 , The condition of the Liberals was far more serious than that of Labour , for the Liberal party was beginning to lose its sense of identity and purpose ( and has still not fully recovered it ) . |
| 4 | Partly for this reason and partly because of slight local demand for living accommodation so markedly individualistic as apartments created in former textile factories ( which may not be entirely free from unpleasant associations ) , only one or two of the smaller , older and picturesquely situated textile mills have , to date , been converted into dwellings . |
| 5 | Their path into fundamental opposition was , partly for this reason , a hesitant one , and their objections to the regime for long less than fundamental . |
| 6 | Partly for this reason urban elites formed , and have since dominated the institutions of independence — government , political parties , law , civil service , trade unions , education , business organisations and many more . |
| 7 | But it had great difficulty in finding the necessary funds for this purpose , and , partly for this reason and partly because of sheer bureaucratic inefficiency , the payment of the subsidies was always much delayed . |
| 8 | Hence , though very durable , jade implements were very costly and partly for this reason , and partly for the beauty and scarcity of the material itself , they remained symbols of prestige after the introduction of metals . |
| 9 | Partly for this reason his work has been , and remains , enormously influential among social theorists , who are variously attracted and repelled by it . |
| 10 | The Clouds are of immense importance to astronomers , and it is partly for this reason that many of the great new telescopes are being set up south of the equator , where the Clouds are accessible . |
| 11 | New Oxford Street and Victoria Street in central London were built partly for this purpose . |
| 12 | This applies notably to cowrie shells which partly for this reason have maintained their status down to the ethnographic present in many parts of the world . |
| 13 | Partly for this reason , no decision has yet been taken on this matter but it may well feature quite soon on the agenda of the Welsh Advisory Body . |
| 14 | At all events , he was unsettled by it and , partly for this reason , was not happy at Bonn . |
| 15 | It is perhaps partly for this reason that these models have been largely concerned with the short term economic outlook ie over a horizon of up to three years . |
| 16 | It was perhaps partly for this reason that on 21 September he ordered General Enrique Varela ( who had taken over from Yagüe when the latter became ill ) to make a detour to Toledo , to relieve what remained of nearly 2,000 Nationalists who had been besieged in the giant fortress — the alcazar — since the end of July . |
| 17 | Partly for this reason and partly because of the inherent complexity the partnership agreement itself will rarely include ( at any rate in its main body ) a breakdown of the chosen management structures in full detail , though where a decision is taken on a matter of principle ( eg what matters require the unanimous approval of the partners , how a senior partner should be chosen , etc ) the partnership agreement is the logical place for it to be recorded . |
| 18 | Second , partly for this reason , but for others as well , the relationship between the state and public enterprises is dogged by difficult questions of enforcement : how can the political authorities ensure that the objectives set for state enterprises are effectively pursued ? |
| 19 | Partly for these reasons , and partly due to pressure from western organisations like Compassion in World Farming , the Indian government has recently banned the slaughter of frogs for this purpose . |
| 20 | Balor had let out a screech of purest agony , but the Elms bent over him with serious , heavy-featured faces and sawed partly through each of the pinioned limbs . |
| 21 | The 18+ examinations were seen , as the Secretary of State himself recognized , again partly as another such certificate for those who had stayed the next voluntary two years at school , partly as an aptitude test for those who were to go on to higher education , partly as a still more specific entry requirement for admission to specified courses in institutions of higher education . |
| 22 | Loss of , or reduction in , the prospects of marriage would come at least partly under this head ; in such case there may also be a pecuniary loss ; see para 5 — 009/6 in Vol 1 of Kemp & Kemp for a more detailed consideration of this topic . |
| 23 | No doubt they chose their paper partly with that bias in mind . |
| 24 | No doubt they chose their paper partly with that bias in mind while they felt that television bias was being inflicted upon them against their will . |
| 25 | But occasionally , a credit transaction may fall partly into both sides of one of the pairs of classifications . |
| 26 | to pass ahead of the foremost part of another moving motor vehicle , being a vehicle proceeding in the same direction wholly or partly within that area , or |
| 27 | ‘ to pass ahead of the foremost part of another moving motor vehicle , being a vehicle proceeding in the same direction wholly or partly within that area ’ This phrase means that the offending vehicle or part of it must pass ahead of a slower moving motor vehicle travelling in the same direction . |
| 28 | Whether a public transport flight takes place entirely within UK airspace , entirely within foreign airspace or partly in each is immaterial to the achievement of a public transport safety level . |
| 29 | Hence particular research programmes have generally centred on one of three broad areas of code-switching phenomena : ( 1 ) The formal aspects of code switching , in particular the grammatical mechanisms whereby a bilingual individual can produce a sentence ( or sentence-like utterance ) partly in one language and partly in another , where the respective parts still apparently conform to the rules of the language they are expressed in. ( 2 ) Pragmatic and discoursal aspects of code switching — what factors within a particular encounter motivate speakers to switch and what meanings underlie speakers ' switches . |
| 30 | Edward I 's behaviour may be seen partly in this light . |