Example sentences of "partly due [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the first fall since 1973 and was due predominantly to reductions in the numbers of remand prisoners , due to the success of the probation service 's bail information schemes , and sentenced young offenders , partly due to the stricter criteria for custodial sentences for young people required by the 1988 Criminal Justice Act , and partly to the drawing up and implementation of ‘ action plans ’ for community plans by the probation service . |
| 2 | That it does so with such success is partly due to the rich quality of the artificial flowers used and partly to the skill of Prue Hooper who made it . |
| 3 | This was partly due to the weak local transport system and remoteness from urban influences . |
| 4 | On the noise question , yes , undoubtedly the increased erm number of complaints is partly due to the higher profile that was achieved during the summer , but erm no , I do n't think that the complaints were frivolous , they were complaints that were , that needed attention , and there will be one or two prosecutions following through . |
| 5 | This is partly due to a real loss of features in the countryside as a result of modern agricultural practices , and partly due to the present policy of the Ordnance Survey . |
| 6 | This has been partly due to the new and attractive packages offered to depositors , and partly due to the increase in competition in the sector since the interest rate cartel was ended a few years ago . |
| 7 | This is partly due to the greater sophistication of the instruments , but it is also due to the variety of contracts brought about by the range of exercise prices , which adds an extra dimension to contract specification . |
| 8 | In contrast , trading in London of straight Swiss franc issues is minimal , partly due to the limited investor base outside Switzerland . |
| 9 | Say there is a differential , what affect does that have on mi on migration , that 's where they sort of start from erm who were the import the employers , because er when it says , you know it says empirically validated , wages are higher er in , in the urban areas partly due to higher costs of living , partly due to the minimum wage legislation , but also another quite important influence . |
| 10 | Its success must be partly due to the extraordinary number of sittings to which his admiring and clear-sighted sitter submitted . |
| 11 | This was at least partly due to the lower incidence of diaphragmatic injuries in children . |
| 12 | This is partly due to the increasing technological influence on songs . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This is partly due to the fact that the government now prefers to fund its PSBR in other ways , and partly due to the increasing use of commercial bills by companies for short-term financing . |
| 15 | That the project 's objectives took the form they did was partly due to the particular interests of those involved and partly to a knowledge of other experimental projects operating at that time . |
| 16 | The difficulties in the design of suitable tests for library use — in obtaining information that is of interest to the user — may well be partly due to the aforementioned confusion of objectives between librarians , academic staff , and students . |
| 17 | Some 60 per cent of the Lacandona — North America 's largest rainforest — has been destroyed since 1970 , partly due to the previous Mexican policy of populating the Guatemalan border area at a time of tension between the two states . |
| 18 | This is partly due to the rapid growth of the financial services industry which has increased the demand for actuaries , but it also has to do with expansion of the skills which actuaries have to offer . |
| 19 | This was partly due to the excellent marking job by his Napoli team-mate Ferrara but possibly also due to off-field distractions . |
| 20 | This is partly due to the ability of pulses to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere , which feeds the rest of the mixture , and partly due to the little-understood symbiosis between ‘ companion plants ’ . |
| 21 | Their relative slowness to act in their first two years in office was partly due to the continuing revenue problem . |
| 22 | The failure of Gladstone 's second ministry is partly due to the Disraelian legacy , and partly a result of Gladstone 's reaction to the new political circumstances of his return . |
| 23 | This is partly due to the relative costs of production and the public 's growing recognition that other countries can make good rugs ; but perhaps the main reason is simply that the output of workshops has increased dramatically in recent years . |
| 24 | Environment Minister Hans Alders acknowledged that , partly due to the high installation cost , wind power is at present as expensive as coal or nuclear power . |
| 25 | The preponderance of women among poor older people is , of course , partly due to the larger number of women than men in the elderly population as a whole . |
| 26 | This is partly due to the decreased circulatory effectiveness in the elderly |
| 27 | This is partly due to the different religious and cultural traditions , but is also influenced by the fact that it is extremely difficult to produce curved and flowing lines unless the knotting is reasonably fine . |
| 28 | The change might well have been partly due to the intense interest in American research at the time into the political socialisation of children . |