Example sentences of "in part [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In seeking committee positions , most will at least in part opt for those which match their personal political interests — someone interested in foreign affairs , for example , would probably not actively canvass for a seat on the House standing committee concerned with the Post Office and the Civil Service . |
| 2 | The threat of increased bills was in part offset by the 1pc tariff reduction , from the beginning of July . |
| 3 | The threat of increased bills was in part offset by the 1pc tariff reduction , from the beginning of July . |
| 4 | The new EGs have been rethought and in part redesigned with a less obvious PRS body style . |
| 5 | When she moved in Virginia Woolf was thirty-seven and had published her first novel The Voyage Out and had her second , Night and Day , accepted ; all her other books were to be in part written at Monk 's House . |
| 6 | Alan Fountain 's lecture will in part draw on the philosophy behind this new series . |
| 7 | Thus , the Conservative attack on inflation and public-sector wage explosions was in part nullified by the Clegg awards on pay comparability . |
| 8 | However , international efforts to halt acid rain pollution ( in part caused by sulphur dioxide ) and to reverse the damage to the ozone layer were expected soon to have an effect , so that overall global warming would increase rapidly from the middle of next century . |
| 9 | Increased consumption of fossil fuels was in part caused by a 6 per cent reduction in electricity generated from nuclear power , due to a decline in imports of nuclear electricity from France and the prolonged shutdown of several nuclear power stations for maintenance . |
| 10 | The damage is in part caused by the increasing incidence of road edges being dug up for laying pipes , cables and power lines . |
| 11 | Washington continues to challenge the scientific claim that global warming is in part caused by emissions of carbon dioxide . |
| 12 | In part leading to such research , in part stemming from it , radical changes in the public attitude towards such matters have taken place in the last quarter-century . |
| 13 | In the latter , it is ‘ public opinion ’ — ‘ a scattered discourse that in part belongs to each of the individuals of a society but of which none may claim ownership ’ — which underwrites the verisimilitude of the text , allows its relationship to its referent to be probable , necessary , and therefore true , and naturalizes its conventions : ‘ public opinion therefore functions as a rule of genre that relates to all genres . ’ |
| 14 | Up to the commencement of school life , the major gratifications of the child in its interactions with others have been based largely on the overt and tacit approval of its parents its activities have been categorised in part according to the extent by which maternal and paternal love has waxed or waned as a result of them . |
| 15 | He lived a life of luxury that was in part funded by misappropriated FBI funds and in part by shady friends . |
| 16 | The third sector , in part funded by ‘ strategic ’ money , is concerned with completely new products , which are becoming increasingly dependent on new processes . |
| 17 | They assume that there is a trade-off between labour-augmenting and capital-augmenting technical progress , and that firms maximize the instantaneous rate of unit cost reduction ( i.e. firms are myopic , or are able to appropriate returns for only one instant ) This ‘ innovation possibility frontier ’ captures the notion of choice but leaves open a number of questions , notably the determination of its shape and location , which must in part result from the deliberate allocation of resources to research and development . |
| 18 | Clearly , then , externalization of this process may in part result in an undoing and reversal of that internalization of dependency on the lost , providential mother . |
| 19 | One difficulty is that there is evidence indicating that hot spots can migrate with respect to each other at velocities of up to 20 mm a k This means that both hot spots can move under ‘ stationary ’ lithosphere and that the lack of motion of the African Plate is thrown into doubt because its past positions have been in part determined with respect to a reference frame of supposedly fixed hot spots . |
| 20 | The political and genealogical relationships which have already been exa-mined were grounded in a shared culture , itself in part determined by the church . |
| 21 | For though it has been suggested that Minton 's attendance at Lehmann 's soirées was in part determined by his hope of work , he would also have been stimulated by the company he met . |
| 22 | It therefore appears that the weak bleomycin cleaage of this central GA step is at least in part determined by the low affinity of the antibiotic . |
| 23 | But one has to remember the difficulties , in practical terms , of introducing genuinely new ideas into education , an area bound to be in part wedded to tradition and the conservation of the old . |
| 24 | The principal methods of investigation are a desk study ( in part completed during 1983-84 ) and a series of semi-structured interviews with policy-makers in Britain , France and the Federal Republic of Germany . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's growing attention in the international community , in part generated by my own wanderings around the world . |
| 26 | This reduction is in part explained by the ending of free travel in Lothian for elderly and disabled people in September 1991 and the introduction of a subsidised flat-rate scheme instead . |
| 27 | Equally depression of prostaglandin synthesis , by diminishing pain perception , could at least in part account for the high proportion of NSAID associated ulcers that are silent . |
| 28 | The family had changed , and its various functions of education , food production , and the manufacture of clothing were already in part relinquished to a variety of institutions whose smooth functioning rested on the intervention and guidance of the nation state . |
| 29 | Yet alongside this ideal — perhaps in part provoked by it — ran strong counter-currents . |
| 30 | This attack , which made inevitable the outbreak of a great European war ( see p. 298 ) was in part provoked by the contents of documents which a Saxon government clerk had been bribed to betray to the Prussians . |