Example sentences of "[coord] partly because [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One suspects that Arsenal and Norwich are facing disrepute charges partly because of TV coverage at home and abroad and partly because between Saturday afternoon and Monday morning various sections of the media had built up a fine head of steam in demanding that the FA take action . |
| 2 | Social security spending expanded greatly after 1979 ( see Table 8. 1 ) partly because of the unexpected and sharp rise in unemployment and partly because of the increase in people of pensionable age . |
| 3 | Partly it is changing because women are getting more familiar with the industrial scene and partly because of the tremendous impact and influence of the strike at Grunwick Photoprocessing . |
| 4 | Planning permission for its conversion into a dwelling existed when the barn was purchased , but the scheme was particularly disliked by one of the new owners who believed , partly for the reason cited above and partly because of her training as a sculptress , that a simpler treatment , more strongly evocative of the barn 's original function , might be adopted and still give comfortable and convenient living accommodation . |
| 5 | Partly for this reason and partly because of slight local demand for living accommodation so markedly individualistic as apartments created in former textile factories ( which may not be entirely free from unpleasant associations ) , only one or two of the smaller , older and picturesquely situated textile mills have , to date , been converted into dwellings . |
| 6 | Businessmen are now so convinced of the need to have a well-trained workforce — partly because of persistent skills shortages and partly because of the evangelising work of the TECs themselves — that they will cut almost anything before they cut their training budgets . |
| 7 | This is partly because we need to understand and classify the vast amounts of pottery recovered from excavations at archaeological sites , and partly because of the high success rate of such analytical projects . |
| 8 | Organisms differ , partly because of the varying impact of the environment in their lifetime ( ‘ nurture ’ ) , and partly because of differences between the genes present in the fertilized eggs from which they developed ( ‘ nature ’ ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Bottles and bed-pans are not really practical , partly because of the difficulty of positioning the patient properly to avoid increasing his spasticity , and partly because of the risk of unpleasant spillages . |
| 11 | But it had great difficulty in finding the necessary funds for this purpose , and , partly for this reason and partly because of sheer bureaucratic inefficiency , the payment of the subsidies was always much delayed . |
| 12 | Now , partly because of fears for their safety and partly because of increased affluence , many children are either taken to school by car or they travel by bus or train . |
| 13 | Over the years , the economic pressures have grown , partly as a result of government policies which committed it to high levels of spending , and partly because of external factors such as declining terms of trade and smaller than anticipated flows of aid after independence . |
| 14 | Partly arising from this , and partly because of the lack of difference found between many predator species , the crude measure of skeletal element proportions is not diagnostic , although it can still provide an approximation of the overall structure of the bone assemblage . |
| 15 | This degree of modification comes about partly because of the greater degree of digestion in mammalian carnivores compared with the regurgitated remains from avian predators , and partly because of their use of teeth to break up prey before digestion . |
| 16 | He had immense difficulties to overcome , partly because of the average Englishman 's prejudice against foreigners ( especially perhaps the French ) and partly because of the then prejudice of society against a science — veterinary medicine — which was not yet established as respectable . |
| 17 | What our survey revealed , however , was that numbers ‘ on average ’ were decreasing , partly because there are too many overlapping tournaments and partly because of the imposition of a registration fee . |
| 18 | Its specialist , academic , authoritarian elements have been persistently criticized , partly because they ignored progressives ' demands for children 's activity , participation and development through discovery , and partly because of the perceived irrelevance of this education to the lives of working-class children , the majority of whom have failed to benefit from it . |
| 19 | The cardinal points of her compass card were friendship with Great Britain ( partly because of traditional and sentimental reasons and partly because of a long coastline ) and watchfulness towards her neighbours , Austria-Hungary and France . |
| 20 | Through all this process , and partly because of the pressures created by it , the central role of governors has received little public attention . |
| 21 | Progress on these schemes has been slower , partly because recession has sapped German enthusiasm for self-inflicted environmental costs , and partly because of opposition from the federal economics ministry . |
| 22 | Of course , all human institutions must rely heavily on consensus , and it is proper that they should , but in the British Electricity Authority , partly because of the predilection of the chairmen and partly because of the difficulty of defining yardsticks , internal politics were to dominate commercial allocative mechanisms more than in most businesses . |
| 23 | Sir George Calvert , a politician at the Stuart court , had already shown his interest in colonization by trying to found a settlement in the Avalon district of Newfoundland , though this had failed partly because of the climate and partly because of the opposition of the fishermen who came from England every summer to use it as a base for fishing on the Grand Banks . |
| 24 | So , partly because of Siraj-ud-Daula 's incompetence and partly because of the eagerness of the Company employees to supplement their incomes by plunging into Indian politics , the British began to move inland . |
| 25 | Land use planning decisions also generate a considerable volume of litigation , once again partly because of the value of what is at stake and partly because of dissatisfaction with the system of planning appeals . |
| 26 | But partly because of the diversity of the French companies involved , and partly because of the distances separating the various European companies working for the CNES and ESA programmes , ‘ catching up with the Americans ’ has been an important unifying goal . |
| 27 | Little came of this , partly because of the resistance from regional newspapers , and partly because of the Jacobin traditions of a government little inclined to decentralize . |
| 28 | The university list is longer than the polytechnic/college one partly because of the greater range of degrees , and partly because of the greater number of more specialized degrees in the universities , although it should be remembered that specialized patterns of options may exist within broad degree programmes . |
| 29 | This has come about partly because of low rates of building in the past ( owing to a relatively small effective demand ) and partly because of stringent planning controls , which have restricted the rate of growth of new housing particularly in national parks and other scenically attractive areas ( see chapter 7 ) . |
| 30 | In practice , there has been considerable disappointment with the new system of planning , partly because of the lack of guidelines provided by central government and partly because of the slowness and cumbersomeness of the new procedures ( Barrass 1979 ; Shaw and Williams 1982a ) . |