adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
half/partly right (= correct to some degree, but not completely )
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That theory may still be partly right.
partly because
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Hubert never experienced any fear, and this was partly because he was not particularly intelligent.
partly/largely/entirely etc to blame
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Television is partly to blame.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
due
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This is partly due to parents not placing high value on a daughter's education.
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Yet the Warriors won Sunday night, partly due to the efforts of two of the only three forwards they had.
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The turnaround also was partly due to sharp cost-cutting to offset the effects of failed new products.
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I am sorry about the late arrival of our response which is partly due the time involved in consulting member organisations.
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Bush's shaky mandate was partly due to the closeness of the election vote and the legal wrangling afterwards.
responsible
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So inevitably, I feel at least partly responsible .
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Consideration for his successor was partly responsible for his decision to resign short of the seven-year goal, he said.
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Most liberals, like other feminists, believe that schools are partly responsible for instilling sexist attitudes into children.
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Waiting for him-and partly responsible for the lights-was Lars Sjostrand, photographer for the Svenska Dagbladet.
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Finally the new adverts themselves were partly responsible for the revival of early 1960s soul music in the late 1980s.
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It takes time for this to develop and for people to recognise that they are partly responsible .
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Prevailing conditions in the organization and distribution of the popular press were partly responsible for this.
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It is sufficient that it was partly responsible for the damage.
■ VERB
based
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They are partly based on the success of the series of novels on which Left Behind is based.
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It is based partly on false statistics, partly on preconceptions and misinterpretations.
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The decision to use this low pressure was partly based on engineering constraints.
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The school site was picked partly based on future development, and Amphi bought it before Tortolita was incorporated.
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The latter argument is based partly on the growing importance to higher education of mature students and continuing education.
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Her first public report, based partly on extensive interviews with Scientology dropouts, was issued in 1995.
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The logic of transnational production and marketing is at least partly based on standardization.
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The format of your print outs will be partly based on this information that you give here.
blame
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Mr Hanley also partly blamed a lack of support among the employers of part-timers for the drop in their numbers.
depend
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This at least partly depends on the relationship between the constraints.
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The issue of physical computability depends partly on what kind of question we are proposing to ask of the system.
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The strength of the general reason for the ordinary belief depends partly on the resolution of large philosophical issues.
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The time to publication depends partly on how many papers we accept.
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It will partly depend upon which items are taxed.
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Estimates of the proportion of people experiencing hypnagogic imagery have varied considerably, depending partly on how exactly they were asked.
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How successful you are in sorting matters out to your satisfaction will depend partly on your bargaining strength.
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Gaining obedience from children will partly depend on their developmental level and whether they understand and can carry out what is expected.
determine
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These are partly determined by and partly determine the other attributes.
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Their different responses reflected the nature of the history they had so far lived through, and partly determined their future.
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These are partly determined by and partly determine the other attributes.
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What has been done, and what is morally judged, is partly determined by external factors.
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The frequency of this planning activity will be partly determined by the rate of change in the educational environment.
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This is because the sentence itself only partly determines what happens to offenders.
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I suggest, however, that the indexical meaning is partly determined by the manifestation of symbolic meaning within certain contexts.
explain
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The mystery surrounding the identity of property owners can be partly explained by a typical Victorian reticence concerning financial matters.
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That partly explains why he was banished at the insistence of the United States and replaced by Annan.
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This may partly explain the lack of change in the appearance of the duodenal mucosa on serial biopsy in this condition.
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This partly explains the lack of top management understanding and involvement.
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The absence of a target date by which the Protestant/Catholic unemployment differential would be significantly reduced is partly explained by this.
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These in turn partly explain its lagging behind the Westwhich, incidentally, was entirely relative.
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Economics partly explains the paradox - capitalist boom in the west, quickening collapse in the east.
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This partly explains the interest of some managers in performance assessment and performance-related pay.
reflect
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The decline partly reflects a broader downturn in global stock markets.
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This partly reflected high public spending.
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He said the school's difficulties partly reflected the fact it will not employ teachers permanently without seeing them teach.
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This may partly reflect the inherent conservatism of the publishing world here.
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This may partly reflect a cohort or historical effect.
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These improvements partly reflect the end of the recession.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Drunk-driving convictions have increased, partly as a result of more effective policing.
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Federal budget cuts are partly to blame for the rise in unemployment.
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He was educated partly in Glasgow and partly in London.
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The accident happened partly because we were having an argument in the car.
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The road was partly blocked by a fallen tree.
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What he told us was only partly true.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In fact, the intention of product redesign may be partly cost reduction and partly product differentiation.
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The architectural style of the region was derived partly from Kiev but was also influenced by Novgorod and by Western Byzantine culture.
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The frequency of this planning activity will be partly determined by the rate of change in the educational environment.
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The growth of the welfare state after 1945 partly reflected developmental social changes.
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The non-university institutions are however, formally sub-divided, by location and partly by type.
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The slowdown will result partly from sluggishness in nondurable sectors such as apparel and textiles.
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This is partly because of the widespread assumption that there would be essential policy continuity under a Gore administration.
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This is partly thanks to the free insurance provided by one of the World Cup sponsors and partly historical perspective.