Example sentences of "[adj] [is] [adv] [subord] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly because manufacturing has declined faster in the north . |
| 2 | In the case of trade union reform in the UK this is partly because government has tried and failed but more generally because the public sector is now viewed as having a self-interest which need bear no relation to the public interest . |
| 3 | This is largely because money allocated centrally at the beginning of the financial year does not usually reach the city itself until the autumn . |
| 4 | That is both because bombing does not always make the victims knuckle under — sometimes it can stiffen their resolve — and because it would be hard knowing what to bomb . |
| 5 | ‘ He is mischief-making on behalf of Tucker but that is only because King likes to hear himself talk , ’ said the champion , who is both personable and articulate . |