Example sentences of "is partly a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly a reflection of the growing responsibility which the Welsh Office has assumed for education at all levels in the Principality . |
| 2 | Its narrator finds Joyce ‘ indispensable ’ , and the novel in which he appears is partly a pastiche of ‘ Work in progress ’ . |
| 3 | The author of a social study of Norwich reasoned that as ‘ Unemployment is partly a problem of education ’ , so ‘ a half-trained or untrained man can not adapt himself easily and rapidly to the endless changes of production under modern conditions . ’ |
| 4 | It is difficult to advise on getting the correct balance of this particular design , because it is partly a case of trial and error . |
| 5 | This judicial restraint is partly a function of the doctrine of separation of powers which will be considered in Chapter 20 . |
| 6 | For instance , the considerable differences in the number of interactions ( compare , for example , the pseudonymous Claybourn and Greystock ) is partly a function of their length : a relatively tow number of interactions does not indicate prolonged periods of silence , and most teachers were interacting with children most of the time . |
| 7 | It depends on the local growth rate , which is partly a function of family size , but one of the great features has been that the high fertility areas , with the exception perhaps of Northern Ireland , which is a rather special case , these tended to have become closer together . |
| 8 | As Christopher Nell explains , it is partly a question of practicalities . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | First , the question of what is a sufficient interest is partly a question of legal principle — what do earlier cases say about standing ? — and partly a question of fact to be decided in the light of circumstances of the case before the court . |
| 11 | This is partly a question of the so-called ‘ burden of dependency ’ . |
| 12 | It will be realised that the interpretation of deltas is partly a question of geomorphology , involving form and the use of historical records , but the sediment succession is really only explicable by the detailed methods of Pleistocene stratigraphy . |
| 13 | This is partly a question of attitude , partly a matter of training . |
| 14 | The strategy of explaining certain industrial relations phenomena in terms of other features of an industrial relations ‘ system ’ may be both legitimate and appropriate ; it is partly a question of where one chooses to stop the analysis . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Although it is partly a response to the claims of transnationalism and hence of recent birth , Neo-Realism belongs firmly to the Realist tradition , as its name suggests . |
| 17 | If having babies is partly a response to unemployment , it also becomes one of the causes of continuing unemployment . |
| 18 | Their growth is partly a response to the falling numbers of secondary pupils , which has made it difficult for many smaller schools to make up viable sixth form classes in less-popular A level subjects . |
| 19 | The difference between the male and the female experience of lab work is partly a difference between male and female upbringing ; writers like Kelly ( 1981a ) have been quite correct to point out that women are disadvantaged in science because of their lack of experience with scientific toys , machines and so on in childhood . |
| 20 | The character or reputation a person has amongst his fellows is partly a product of his own efforts at self-presentation , partly an ascription to him by others on the basis of their readings of his life performances , partly in situations which can be seen as occasions of hazard . |
| 21 | And one of the features of the current policy is that affordable supply is partly a matter to be negotiated and it 's very important that it 's negotiated out of the general er supply made by private sector builders . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This is partly a matter of winning and keeping customers . |
| 24 | The rules by which the game is played are known to all in advance but the result of the game is partly a matter of skill and partly of chance . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This is partly a matter of religious faith concerning the world to come . |
| 27 | For , as we have seen , interpretation is involved in the description of facts ( including the results of tests ) and hence the consistency of prediction with fact is partly a matter of how we choose to read it . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Being part of a disciplinary community is partly a matter of following a set of rules ; stepping outside the conventions of the discourse invites opprobrium , if not downright excommunication . |
| 30 | Ultimately , what counts as rationality is partly a matter of where one stands , and what intellectual position one is taking up . |