Example sentences of "this [is] partly because [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly because molecular electronic spectra are very different from the line-spectra of atoms , consisting in most cases of broad bands , and partly because the spectra are usually very complicated , so that assignment is often impossible . |
| 2 | This is partly because private hospitals select simpler cases but may also reflect the lack of incentives to reduce admissions and length of stay in public hospitals and the absence of adequate community care for the impoverished populations which tend to use them . |
| 3 | This is partly because Labour has picked up a mood of unease about the city among its residents , fearful of Frankfurt taking over its role as Europe 's financial capital , and jealous of Paris 's self-confidence and infrastructure . |
| 4 | This is partly because poorer groups in the population tend to pay a higher proportion of their income in indirect taxes than richer ones . |
| 5 | This is partly because single status at younger ages appears to have been consistently even more lethal for men than for women . |
| 6 | This is partly because more is known about him , and because his drawings and those of his younger contemporary John Thorpe [ q.v. ] ( a high proportion of which are survey drawings ) are the only large personal collection from this period that still exist , but it is also because of the distinctive and remarkable character of the houses with which he can be connected . |
| 7 | This is partly because structuralist poetics are part of a wider semiological venture , and partly because any distinctiveness ascribed to literature in structuralist thinking takes it right back to linguistics ; for the element that constitutes ‘ literature 's Being ’ and its ‘ very world ’ ( Barthes 1970 ) is simply language itself . |
| 8 | This is partly because most students take no theory examinations except Grade V , a required precondition for sitting O level music in the old days . |
| 9 | But as Nicholas Bosanquet ( 1975 , 1978 ) points out this is partly because younger people are now dependent , ill and hospitalized much less than in the past . |