The phrase "a partial cause of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing factors that contribute to a particular outcome or event, indicating that the cause is not the sole reason for the effect.
Example: "The recent increase in traffic accidents is a partial cause of the new safety regulations being implemented by the city."
Alternatives: "a contributing factor to" or "a contributing cause of".
A partial cause of Hildebrand's death was his unfortunate time slot.
Some analysts have suggested that TV viewing via the Internet is a partial cause of the channel's declines.
Many economists consider the rial's problems at least a partial cause of Iran's inflation, which is officially around 30 percent but widely believed to be far higher.
In a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) in Washington on Monday the hawkish Republican senator John McCain said the "feckless foreign policy" of the Obama administration was a partial cause of events in Ukraine.
Recalling the dispute over Catalan autonomy that was a partial cause of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930's, Lt. Gen. José Mena Aguado, 63, said Friday that history appeared to be repeating itself as the nation debated Catalonia's recent requests for more self-government, and that the military was ready to act.
It is that economic collapse, and the not-so-coincidental collapse of these families, that suggest at least a partial cause of prostitution today: single moms who couldn't get through high school, and who didn't have a clue how to raise the children born to them before they were out of their teens.
In this context, a social determinant of health is a socially controllable factor outside the traditional health care system that is an independent partial cause of an individual's health status.
As a result of their warming effects when relatively thin, cirrus clouds have been implicated as a potential partial cause of global warming.
The OxyContin case arose from a four-year investigation into the marketing of a powerful drug that was, according to federal drug officials, a direct or partial cause of 146 deaths in 2000 and 2001 and possibly in 318 others during that period.
To avoid such Deistic threats, the notion of bringing about in question must be clarified so that it involves some activity on the part of God that is an immediate, even if only partial, cause of existence.
Therefore, because the standard jury instruction should only be given when the plaintiff's negligence is a partial proximate cause of the injuries that occurred, and in this jail suicide case the action taken by the decedent was voluntary and intentional, we find that the standard jury instruction regarding comparative negligence was not proper here.
