Example sentences of "partly [conj] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surveys of painting , it has to be admitted , are more fallible in this respect , partly because of the relative simplicity of the means used . |
| 2 | This is partly because of the structure of catholic nationalism in the Southern state and partly because the national unity sought by significant numbers of Northern catholic nationalists is still on the basis of the reversal of protestant — loyalist hegemony rather than a power compromise . |
| 3 | This is partly because of the speech 's length but also partly because of the difficulty of showing the advert on the BBC ; even if the corporation agreed , the manufacturers would not . |
| 4 | This is partly because of the speech 's length but also partly because of the difficulty of showing the advert on the BBC ; even if the corporation agreed , the manufacturers would not . |
| 5 | Milan , who faltered at the weekend with a 3-0 defeat at the hands of the current league leaders , Napoli , have slipped to seventh place , partly because of the absence of van Basten and his compatriot , Ruud Gullit , who is seeing a doctor on Monday about his cartilage injury . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Dissent increased in the 1983 Parliament , partly because of the government 's larger majority , which enables rebels to dissent without jeopardizing the government . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll like this one , ’ he said firmly , ‘ partly because of the water ; it all flows downwards , the whole garden works its way downwards . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Individual gas supplies were not provided in the services included in the rebuilding , partly because of the difficulties in projecting the resultant chimneys and flues through the external surfaces — the appearance of which was closely watched by officials of English Heritage . |
| 12 | Following a tender competition , the offer from Fairclough Building Ltd. was chosen , but the cost had now risen to almost £1.3 million , partly because of the imposition of VAT on building operations in the 1984 budget . |
| 13 | ‘ It is a serious and growing problem partly because of the man made nutrients which aid the growth of the blooms . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | After fighting a war at least partly because of the Gulf 's oil , he certainly should be . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 18 | We knew we would get a big loss this year partly because of the cost of the changes we have made . |
| 19 | Many gardeners — and visitors — are getting younger , partly because of the current ecological obsession and also because gardens are often seen as an extension of the living room . |
| 20 | There , contrary to expectation , primary schools are of the two to three teacher type even in the heavily populated Punjab province , partly because of the village concept of life and partly because the community structure makes this the best and perhaps the only acceptable form of organisation . |
| 21 | Partly because of the lack of predators , many island birds have lost the ability to fly ; after all , flying requires enormous energy , and on islands , those that do take to the air could in theory be blown out to sea . |
| 22 | This matter is important partly because of the particular status in religious thought of ideas that God 's existence can be ‘ proved ’ . |
| 23 | I shall therefore look more closely at their teachings , partly because of the ecumenical value of an awareness of their doctrine , but mainly because we can thereby focus much more clearly upon what religions mean by ‘ God ’ . |
| 24 | This was partly because of the fantasies in which most of the parties in Lebanon found it convenient to indulge . |
| 25 | This is partly because of the tight political control exercised by the state , but also because in Syria refugees have always enjoyed equal rights with Syrian citizens while maintaining their own identity . |
| 26 | This was partly because of the idea of national unity between Muslim and Christian Palestinians , but also because the Muslim dimension was masked during the heyday of Arab nationalism , from the 1950s until the mid-1970s . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Partly because of the earlier bitterness of the battle over comprehensive reorganization , more because in the new artificially contrived areas ( such as ‘ Humberside ’ , ‘ Avon ’ , ‘ Kirklees ’ , and ‘ Thamesdown ’ ) there was no tradition and no sense of local needs , political alignments became overwhelmingly important . |