Example sentences of "partly because [prep] [art] lack " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His morale then steadied , partly because of the lack of obvious alternatives . |
| 4 | But identification of cytotoxic T cells in humans naturally exposed to malaria has been problematic , partly because of the lack of a suitable in vitro restimulation system to generate CTL . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Despite the agreement on the attributions to Rolle in the manuscripts , his authorship has been questioned , partly because of the lack of certainty about the authority of scribal attributions , partly because of the absence in the texts of that sense of joy springing from an inner knowledge of the reality of redemption which generally characterises his work . |