Example sentences of "[adj] is partly [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly a question of social mobility but it may also be a response to the sort of repetitive jobs many of these people are performing . |
| 2 | This is partly a question of the so-called ‘ burden of dependency ’ . |
| 3 | This is partly a question of attitude , partly a matter of training . |
| 4 | This is partly a reflection of the growing responsibility which the Welsh Office has assumed for education at all levels in the Principality . |
| 5 | ‘ I think this is partly a reaction against the artificial nature of our media system , ’ says Sut Jhally , a communications professor at Amherst University . |
| 6 | This is partly a consequence of simple arithmetic . |
| 7 | This is partly a consequence of the fact that the great majority of single parents are women and partly because such families are disproportionately working class . |
| 8 | This is partly a consequence of the non-finite or ‘ leaky ’ nature of syntactic systems , which in turn is associated with the relationship between syntax and speaker meaning ( or intention ) . |
| 9 | This is partly a result of private acquisition of forest lands prior to the General Revision Act of 1891 , when it made more economic sense to annex high quality , easily accessible forests . |
| 10 | Although this is partly a result of lower market share during the last days of The Sunday Correspondent , the IoS has made ground while its rival The Observer has not . |
| 11 | This is partly a result of the success of the Registration and Inspection Service 's efforts to encourage a move to more single room provision . |
| 12 | This is partly a result of the small sizes of international bond issues , but also a consequence of the long holding periods typical of such bonds . |
| 13 | This is partly a matter of winning and keeping customers . |
| 14 | This is partly a matter of technology — more paper mills need to be built with the capacity to take old paper instead of new pulp . |
| 15 | This is partly a matter of religious faith concerning the world to come . |
| 16 | This is partly a matter of the distinction between ways of understanding the abstract character of a system and actual history already identified in a quotation from Gramsci . |
| 17 | This is partly a matter of writing appropriate sentences , for example , so that you can distinguish your point of view in debate from someone else 's . |
| 18 | This is partly the fault of the translation which is infuriatingly unclear in places . |
| 19 | As Macdonald points out , some subjects change from being viewed as ‘ masculine ’ to being viewed as ‘ feminine ’ , and vice versa ; she argues that this is partly the result of ‘ pressures exerted on the school and universities by the changing pattern of employment of men and women in the labour force ’ . |
| 20 | This is partly the result of inadequate control over facades and signing , reinforced by the trend toward corporate design by major retail chains . |
| 21 | This is partly the result of scale effects , which we ow need to define more exactly . |
| 22 | This is partly the result of government cutbacks but it also reflects the closure of business activities which were judged not to be viable plus the contracting out of many non-technical services and a continuing quest to achieve greater efficiency in all aspects of the business . |
| 23 | This is partly the result of government policies aimed at reducing public funding in favour of increased private sponsorship . |
| 24 | This is partly the view of the fellowship 's chairman , the Venerable Michael Perry , who is also Archdeacon of Durham and the editor of the Fellowship 's The Christian Parapsychologist . |
| 25 | Now , though , I am saying that being reasonable is partly a matter of falling in with the conventions — in time and place — of an intellectual form of life or culture ; and this surely raises the spectre of relativism . |
| 26 | The headroom that is available is partly a feature of the number of layers , but also a feature of the tolerance and openness of the environment in which we operate , an element which we seek to encourage . |
| 27 | That is partly a result of City pressure to perform . |
| 28 | Most people prefer the total look to be soft and natural without some of the extravagances and hard colours of younger-style make-up , but that is partly a matter of personal taste and overall style . |
| 29 | The reason for that is partly the attitude of the people involved ; they will identify with individual cows and know them . |
| 30 | Changing that is partly the job of recently headhunted former Oracle staffer John Spiers , now marketing director for Northern Europe . |