Example sentences of "this [is] [adv] [conj] [noun sg] " 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 partly because surgery and drugs have not succeeded in banishing the ‘ diseases of civilisation ’ ( such as cancer , degenerative diseases of the cardiovascular , respiratory and other systems , and allergies ) and there is growing realisation that many of these diseases are intimately related to life styles and attitudes . |
| 4 | This is partly because vocabulary is the most individualistic part of a person 's knowledge of language , and continues to develop throughout life , although its growth is clearly fastest in early years . |
| 5 | This is partly because piracy in Britain is more a game for enthusiasts than a serious business . |
| 6 | This is partly because politics as such are compromised in the eyes of many after 40 years of the Communist regime . |
| 7 | This is partly because fishing rights erm were written in erm to the , to the European Community system erm as part of in a sense the agricultural policy , erm because they were regarded as part of food policy , and it was thought that you must have , if you 're going to have a common agricultural policy , and that was one of the important points erm of the negotiations for setting up the European Community , then a common fisheries policy went alongside with that . |
| 8 | This is partly because access into council housing is through housing need rather than ability to pay but also because local authorities are the main providers of wheelchair and mobility adapted accommodation , with very little provision made in the housing association , private , rented or owner-occupied sector . |
| 9 | This is partly because punctuation and paragraphing are a relatively recent development in Arabic ( Holes , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | This is largely because money allocated centrally at the beginning of the financial year does not usually reach the city itself until the autumn . |
| 11 | ‘ This is largely because success for one becomes a bench mark for the other . ’ |