Example sentences of "[adj] [is] partly " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This is partly because he has become the man most likely to win medals in the top competitions abroad — including the World Championships in Belgrade which start on Tuesday — notwithstanding his curiously fragile physique . |
| 4 | This is partly a consequence of simple arithmetic . |
| 5 | This is partly due to my experiences as a politician , because I know as a politician that when you are doing something naughty , nothing is more effective than to muddy the waters with complication . |
| 6 | This is partly due to the increasing technological influence on songs . |
| 7 | This is partly the inevitable consequence of gender being socially constructed . |
| 8 | What I have argued so far is that the Situationists are ill-served by these publications , and that this is partly due to the influence of a certain pessimism which haunts contemporary cultural politics . |
| 9 | Apart from nostalgia for her troupe of Tamworths , this is partly out of gratitude for the plasticised pig valve in her mother 's heart — ‘ so pigs came to the fore again ’ — and partly her horrified response on reading about European factory farms in Peter Singer 's seminal book Animal Liberation . |
| 10 | This is partly due to a belief that flu jabs do not offer much protection . |
| 11 | This is partly thanks to the free insurance provided by one of the World Cup sponsors and partly historical perspective . |
| 12 | This is partly because of his super-conciliatory attitude to the doctors . |
| 13 | This is partly because Labour has picked up a mood of unease about the city among its residents , fearful of Frankfurt taking over its role as Europe 's financial capital , and jealous of Paris 's self-confidence and infrastructure . |
| 14 | This is partly because its product , type , must be familiar if it is to be legible . |
| 15 | This is partly because the G7 had other matters on its agenda , such as how to share out the burden of paying for the Gulf war and the issue of debt relief for Egypt and Poland . |
| 16 | This is partly because Spain wants ‘ economic union ’ , by which it understands more aid for poorer countries , to be in place to cushion the shock of the monetary sort . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This is partly because the comparison of stylistic elements in different media such as vase painting and coinage is not as straightforward as it seems . |
| 19 | This is partly because the depiction of the same building on coins of a particular city at different dates may , through its variation , reveal complementary details . |
| 20 | Concerning the world shortage of cocoa butter , this is partly due to the increasing popularity of milk chocolate which , in manufacture , requires added cocoa butter . |
| 21 | This is partly because he became known much sooner . |
| 22 | This is partly brought about by the theoretical writings of Constantin Stanislavsky who confounds the issue for us by bringing emotional expression back onto the stage . |
| 23 | This is partly due to the flexibility of the external skeleton — it can be modified into wings , fortified into claws , sealed against searing heat , or turned into eye lenses . |
| 24 | This is partly because the word itself tends to conjure up the picture of performing some type of vigorous sport . |
| 25 | Doubtless this is partly owing to echoes of the ending of Love 's Labours Lost , and also of Ambrose Philips 's ‘ Winter Piece ’ . |
| 26 | This is partly because vocabulary is the most individualistic part of a person 's knowledge of language , and continues to develop throughout life , although its growth is clearly fastest in early years . |
| 27 | In more than half the cases where the occupations of grandparents are mentioned , this is partly because the father followed a grandfather in his own work . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This is partly I suppose what made us seem like a destination to him ; he was in that simple sense ready to arrive , ready to get somewhere and rest there for the night . |
| 30 | This is partly why the paradox at the heart of the theory does n't normally make itself felt . |