Example sentences of "it [be] partly [conj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I think it 's partly because of my kitchen actually — it 's down those two little stairs , it 's with the bathroom and it 's away from the living room .
2 ‘ But if you 're disillusioned now it 's partly because of what I 'm talking about ; the radicalism of Thatcher that seemed so fresh .
3 It 's partly because of Ms Greer herself .
4 It is partly because of this early extensive experience of stories that so much writing in primary schools is in story form .
5 It is partly because of this distinction that , for the past fifty years , the physical anthropologists , who have by now become laboratory scientists par excellence , have barely been in communication with the various kinds of socio-cultural anthropologists .
6 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 .
7 It is partly because of that false economics that the Conservatives have never had a regional policy .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 It was partly because of this experience that he had no hesitation in supporting wholeheartedly the Roskill recommendation to depart from the principle of jury trial in complex fraud cases , against the ( ultimately successful ) Home Office view advocated by Hurd .
11 She said that it was partly because of drink — that all the Stavangers drank , and that her father knew he was drinking too much , but that he never drank at sea .
12 There should have been light from above and below , but in fact there was almost none , and it was partly because of that , and because it was also rather colder than it had to be , that Quiss had set off something like an hour before to find some of the castle 's attendants .
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