Example sentences of "[adj] partly [conj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Appeals of murder ’ were abolished in 1819 partly because of this case . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This matter is important partly because of the particular status in religious thought of ideas that God 's existence can be ‘ proved ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |