Example sentences of "partly [subord] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latin America was the first region of the South to change all that , partly because of the influence of their regional organisation of communication institutions ( FELAFACS ) . |
| 2 | This is partly because of the presence of a remarkably heterogenous group of pictures displayed under the name of Giorgione . |
| 3 | The contradiction was less dramatic for the revolutionaries in Cuba , where the Church 's influence was not great , partly because of the presence of vestiges of African religion from the slave culture and partly because of the comparatively developed state of Cuba 's economy and educational system . |
| 4 | We knew we would get a big loss this year partly because of the cost of the changes we have made . |
| 5 | The supply of carpenters in Scotland will not immediately increase : it takes time to acquire carpentry skills and existing carpenters in other parts of the UK may be reluctant to move away from their own area , partly because of the cost of the move and partly because they do not wish to leave their families and friends . |
| 6 | I had no desire to share the fate of Galileo , with whom I feel a strong sense of identity , partly because of the coincidence of having been born exactly 300 years after his death ! |
| 7 | British Telecom is to axe twenty-five thousand jobs over the next year partly because of the recession . |
| 8 | The new class of citizens whom democracy has empowered ‘ partly because of the fairness and regularity with which the law has been enforced for generations in Great Britain , hardly perceive the risk and ruin involved in a departure from the rule of law ’ . |
| 9 | some young people like the excitement of sniffing solvents , perhaps partly because of the element of danger |
| 10 | The 1980s were in fact an extremely busy period for tanker owners — partly because of the boom in orthodox calls for shipping , partly because of the development of unusual kinds of employment . |
| 11 | In practice , there has been considerable disappointment with the new system of planning , partly because of the lack of guidelines provided by central government and partly because of the slowness and cumbersomeness of the new procedures ( Barrass 1979 ; Shaw and Williams 1982a ) . |
| 12 | Partly because of the lack of predators , many island birds have lost the ability to fly ; after all , flying requires enormous energy , and on islands , those that do take to the air could in theory be blown out to sea . |
| 13 | Partly arising from this , and partly because of the lack of difference found between many predator species , the crude measure of skeletal element proportions is not diagnostic , although it can still provide an approximation of the overall structure of the bone assemblage . |
| 14 | His morale then steadied , partly because of the lack of obvious alternatives . |
| 15 | But identification of cytotoxic T cells in humans naturally exposed to malaria has been problematic , partly because of the lack of a suitable in vitro restimulation system to generate CTL . |
| 16 | In practice , there has been considerable disappointment with the new system of planning , partly because of the lack of guidelines provided by central government and partly because of the slowness and cumbersomeness of the new procedures ( Barrass 1979 ; Shaw and Williams 1982a ) . |
| 17 | Despite the agreement on the attributions to Rolle in the manuscripts , his authorship has been questioned , partly because of the lack of certainty about the authority of scribal attributions , partly because of the absence in the texts of that sense of joy springing from an inner knowledge of the reality of redemption which generally characterises his work . |
| 18 | We 're talking about this partly because of the document passed in the ministry in which , everybody has avidly read and erm has been talked about after the seventeenth er , in York in July . |
| 19 | For over a decade the NWICO has been defamed partly because of the word ‘ order ’ . |
| 20 | Partly because of the reliance of many older married women on their husband 's state pension contributions , the proportion staying in the labour market beyond the age of 60 has remained fairly high ( between a quarter and a fifth , compared with 8 per cent of men working beyond the age of 65 ) . |
| 21 | Yeah well I I remember it was more a it was more or less like a feeling of physical revulsion er I felt erm on occasions like that , partly because of the person but partly because it was a bit of an imposition on on my on my intimacy as it were y'know erm so er |
| 22 | Relations between the two churches were often strained , partly because of the question of status of the various monks working in the area . |
| 23 | Social security spending expanded greatly after 1979 ( see Table 8. 1 ) partly because of the unexpected and sharp rise in unemployment and partly because of the increase in people of pensionable age . |
| 24 | The library has become a closer ally of subject work partly because of the emphasis given by the national curriculum to study skills and information technology . |
| 25 | Partly because of the invention , in 1963 , of the one-day county game . |
| 26 | Of these , only the first was part of PNP and it proved to be the most problematic , partly for administrative reasons and partly because of the delicacy of the issues of culture and status which it raised . |
| 27 | Partly because we 're doing a survey but partly to warn partly because of the emergency services aspect . |
| 28 | There , contrary to expectation , primary schools are of the two to three teacher type even in the heavily populated Punjab province , partly because of the village concept of life and partly because the community structure makes this the best and perhaps the only acceptable form of organisation . |
| 29 | This chain theory collapsed partly through its own incoherence under pressure — how do we know when we have got all the links ? — and partly because of the discovery of past faunas . |
| 30 | This is partly because of the speech 's length but also partly because of the difficulty of showing the advert on the BBC ; even if the corporation agreed , the manufacturers would not . |