Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] partly [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But all the time — from the moment I began to speak , in fact — I knew this was partly a lie : I enjoyed the intrigue of politics , the excitement , the feeling , if only in a limited way , of power . |
| 2 | This was partly a reflection of the balance between specialist and conversion course provision on either side of the binary line . |
| 3 | This was partly a reference to how the game was played : its new emphasis on the professional foul , dossiers on opposition players , new fitness training methods and greater tactical awareness . |
| 4 | Again , this was partly a matter of generation . |
| 5 | Britain acquired large parts of North America ( until the independence of the USA in 1776 ) , the West Indies , the West African coast , and the Indian sub-continent and this was partly a cause , partly a reinforcement of industrial growth : ‘ We were , or we increasingly became , the agency of economic interchange between the advanced and the backward , the industrial and the primary-producing , the metropolitan and the colonial or quasi-colonial regions of the world ’ ( Hobsbawm , 1969 , 14 ) . |
| 6 | On the other hand , this was partly the result of huge unemployment depressing demand and consumer pressure , while the sharp fall of sterling against both the dollar and the deutschmark was also not what was intended . |
| 7 | This was partly the result of good news such as winning the contract for the government department data network and a voice network for the department of social security . |
| 8 | This was partly the result of a gift of £1 million from the Emir of Kuwait , along with a rise in the number of visitors which has generated around £.5 million . |
| 9 | This was partly the result of sheer indecision : during the Abdication imbroglio of 1936 , for example , he admitted to an acquaintance that " he changed his mind on the subject several times a day " . |
| 10 | This was partly the result of an upbringing that had instilled in him the belief that it was wrong to say unkind things about people behind their backs ; indeed , a lack of verbal malice , and a determination to try always to see the best in people , is one of his qualities . |
| 11 | This was partly the result of the practical difficulties of running the railway with the resources available . |
| 12 | Perhaps that was partly the trouble . |