Example sentences of "[adj] is partly a [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 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | That is partly a result of City pressure to perform . |
| 21 | 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 . |