Example sentences of "[adj] partly [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , but there are quite a few partly or wholly centred around hotels . |
| 2 | They were able to do this partly because some of the messages were generalized enough to allow virtually any interpretation , and partly because messages sometimes combined minute practical detail with broad general principle , allowing teachers to feel they were taking a step in the right direction by changing the surface appearance of their practice without altering its substance . |
| 3 | We 're talking about this partly because of the document passed in the ministry in which , everybody has avidly read and erm has been talked about after the seventeenth er , in York in July . |
| 4 | The section on the chemistry of gasication is not so definitive partly because the temperature gradient , which varies according to fuel and gasifier design , affects both the position of chemical equilibria and the relative rates of different reactions within the gasifier but also because few experimental results are available for interpretation . |
| 5 | ‘ Appeals of murder ’ were abolished in 1819 partly because of this case . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The first — Treasury Chief Secretary — given to him as soon as Major became Premier partly as thanks for helping to run his leadership campaign . |
| 8 | Aelurostrongylus infection is widespread partly because it is almost indiscriminate in its ability to develop in slugs and snails , and partly because of its wide range of paratenic hosts . |
| 9 | The move , which was made possible partly because of new estimates of the reserves available in the vast Groningen gas field , was calculated to increase government revenue by up to Fl40,000 million , although this would mainly be after 2000 . |
| 10 | Darlington have chosen largely unknown Queensland pace bowler Scott Muller as their professional partly because of his qualifications as a coach but if former Lancashire player , Jack Simmons ' opinion proves correct they could be challenging for the title yet again . |
| 11 | In 1925 it became used partly as the school and partly as the village hall . |
| 12 | The original ( but still available ) Brewer 's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable is an example of a nineteenth-century collection of somewhat idiosyncratically chosen historical , mythical and literary information ; it is useful partly because of its eccentricity , in that it contains information you may not find elsewhere . |
| 13 | Neither measure has proved very effective partly because governments have been half-hearted . |
| 14 | The room was restful partly because it was anonymous . |
| 15 | This matter is important partly because of the particular status in religious thought of ideas that God 's existence can be ‘ proved ’ . |
| 16 | Christianity is rational partly because it is a faith with a foundation of sure and sufficient reasons . |
| 17 | Its importance in soil conservation practice is world-wide partly because much of the international literature on the subject in popular and scientific journals is written by Americans , and partly because of the American foreign aid programme in which conservation plays an important part . |
| 18 | Early diagnosis is difficult partly because the denial systems of primary sufferers , family members and others make it hard to get a clear picture , especially when there may be few adverse consequences . |
| 19 | The hale and hearty young archivists stood by , worried that she might die — worried partly because of the venerable old man 's fever that she should n't , and partly because of professional affront at the possibility of all that memorabilia going west . |
| 20 | Susie had been secretive partly because of who she was — a different woman might have confronted him openly — but partly because he had driven her to it . |
| 21 | I believe I did n't get gay-bashed partly because of the heterosexual relationship and partly because no one took my sexuality seriously because I was blind , and obviously did n't know what badge I was wearing . |
| 22 | The reiteration is necessary partly because conventional sexological and psychoanalytic assumptions prove so difficult to dislodge . |
| 23 | The weapons are expensive partly because they are made of expensive components , but also because they are time-consuming to develop . |
| 24 | Production was chaotic partly because equipment had been grossly undermaintained during the war but also because manufacturers were busily hoarding stocks of materials . |