Example sentences of "[adv] partly [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Kelsen insists that ‘ every law applying act is only partly determined by law ’ and presents actual legal systems as a synthesis of formal , static deduction and informal , dynamic determination .
2 Aggression is only partly caused by leadership style .
3 At this stage it operates largely in the unconscious but it is soon partly modified by exposure to reality , that part becoming the ego .
4 Biology , like the other sciences , is partly studied in a laboratory but also partly studied by observation in the world about you .
5 The Same 's electronic throttle , here partly obscured by sprayer black box at top , replaces familiar hand lever .
6 He was a man who had started out in his career simple and full of hope , but his life had been so marked by violent and terrible happenings that his character was now seamed and rocky like a mountain face which had been opened up by movements of the earth , then partly sealed by lava flows .
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