Sentence examples for partly lay from inspiring English sources

An increase in electronic parts and auto production partly lay behind the increase, which beat a median market forecast of a 1.1% rise.

The fault partly lies with the regulator, Ofcom.

The answer may partly lie in a primitive brain region called the hypothalamus.

The answer partly lies with the funding for British universities failing to keep up with American ones: they now simply have much more money than British ones do.

The answer must partly lie in the fact that he has been translated (here by Klara Glowczewska), which gives his language an attractive formality and difference.

This partly lies behind its insistence that if a club does declare insolvency, it must exit via a CVA agreed by at least 75% of creditors.

The historic significance of Cromwell partly lies in this incredible socioeconomic legacy that underpinned a rather Whiggish narrative of British progress.

But as is fitting for a society whose roots partly lie in the suffragette movement – which also had Jerusalem as its anthem – there is a pleasing bolshiness to the WI that has never faded.

David Cameron was wrong to blame top universities for a lack of diversity as the problem partly lies with state schools being unable to prepare their students for Oxbridge, headteachers have said.

But I'm afraid the ship has already sailed on banning cellphones, especially with guests who are only partly lying when they claim to be worried about hospital pages or the far more common child-care emergencies.

The contamination was traced back to the former military training ground partly lying within the municipality borders.