Example sentences of "partly because [pron] [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went often , partly because I enjoyed dancing and partly because we were offered the most delicious cakes , of a sort that was almost impossible to obtain except on the black market . |
| 2 | Education and , to some extent , housing , were allocated only limited support , partly because they were seen as dominating mainstream local-authority expenditure . |
| 3 | The 1989 NHS Reforms were greeted with great hostility by much of the medical profession , partly because they were seen as part of possible moves towards dismantling the NHS , but also because of the changed emphasis brought about by the consideration of terms such as : ‘ efficiency ’ , ‘ internal market ’ , and ‘ payment by results ’ in areas where the role of the market had previously been much less prominent . |
| 4 | The Japanese are reluctant , partly because they were asked to be contributors after the machine had been designed , rather than to be partners for the whole project . |
| 5 | Carrie thought it was partly because they were going to have a farewell tea at Druid 's Bottom . |
| 6 | This turned out to be impracticable , partly because they were needed for training and also had to be moved between aerodromes because of changes in the strategic and tactical situation , but also , more importantly , just how do you build an aeroplane for one flight only ? |
| 7 | The solution was relatively easy partly because what was required by society as a whole fitted in very closely with what the showmen believed themselves and partly because the new social awareness was really only a refinement of those old nineteenth-century platitudes that had always underpinned popular fiction . |
| 8 | The judge may have tried to throw you with an interruption partly because you were reading your argument in a monotonous way . |
| 9 | This was partly because it was felt that a true understanding of the causes of crime was necessary before a clear corrective programme could be enunciated and that point , of course , was never quite reached — ‘ more research ’ was always needed . |
| 10 | When Arsenal won the league again two years later , it did n't feel the same — partly because it was achieved in a less dramatic fashion , but mostly because I had nothing left . |
| 11 | She was highly critical , however , of the terms under which the League of Nations was set up in 1919 , partly because the League was permitted the use of force and economic sanctions , and partly because it was committed to supporting the Versailles settlement , which she regarded from the start as an unjust and unstable peace . |
| 12 | Partly because it was increasing in numbers ; more particularly because it was seeking to gain a foothold in the rural parishes which had thus far been largely impervious to its appeal and especially because , in the era of the French Revolution , anything which seemed to pose a threat to the Church of England established by law was suspect . |
| 13 | Berger 's work was disregarded by physiologists , partly because it was published in psychiatric journals , and also perhaps because of his reputation for eccentricity , seclusiveness and his longstanding belief in psychic phenomena such as telepathy . |
| 14 | The voice on the telephone seemed to be sharp and peremptory , but I did n't hear too well what it said — partly because I was only half awake and partly because I was holding the receiver upside down . |
| 15 | I did it partly for aesthetic reasons ; partly to economize on the number of genes necessary ( if genes did n't exert mirror-image effects on the two sides of the tree , we 'd need separate genes for the left and the right sides ) ; and partly because I was hoping to evolve animal-like shapes , and most animal bodies are pretty symmetrical . |
| 16 | For the moment , however , he allowed the affair to subside , partly because Spain herself appeared to be on the verge of civil war , and as a consequence even less attractive to any possible monarch , and partly because he was awaiting developments in France where the regime appeared to be entering a moment of crisis . |
| 17 | It was his third picture for Twentieth Century-Fox and his biggest screen disappointment , partly because he was miscast in the romantic lead . |