Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [be] due " in BNC.
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| 31 | Year-to-year variations may be due in part to variations in precipitation ( e.g. the drought of 1988 and associated increase in windblown dust ) , volcanic activity ( e.g. Mount St Helens in 1980 ) and wildfires ( e.g. Yellowstone forest fires in 1988 ) . |
| 32 | In addition , the differences we see between the rhythm measured normally and under constant routine conditions must be due to external causes ( rhythms in our life-style and environment ) . |
| 33 | These problems can be due to poor pot construction , or to the fact that the carbon track on the pot is reacting like an old-style carbon granule microphone , thus making the pot noisy when used . |
| 34 | The National Toxics Campaign Fund , a US-based charity says the unexplained illnesses of hundreds of Gulf war veterans may be due to being exposed to radiation from weapons tipped with depleted uranium . |
| 35 | We believe that the differences in affinities determined by the different techniques may be due to the relatively rapid sampling of the filter-binding assay . |
| 36 | Indeed , differences over time and differences among hospitals , regions , and populations may be due to the proportion of primiparous women in the study group rather than to other variables . |
| 37 | The increase in laminin concentrations in these patients could be due to increased synthesis by Ito cells . |
| 38 | Broadly speaking , the increase in the postsynaptic response generated at potentiated synapses could be due to ( 1 ) presynaptic modifications which result in an increase in the amount of L-glutamate released per impulse , ( 2 ) postsynaptic modifications , such as an increase in the number of receptors or a change in their functional characteristics , ( 3 ) an extrasynaptic change , such as a reduction in uptake of L-glutamate by glial cells leading to increased neurotransmitter availability at the receptors , or ( 4 ) morphological modifications . |
| 39 | Granulomas can be due to a wide variety of causes but other investigations were negative and there has been no evidence of tuberculosis or other infecton on follow-up . |
| 40 | Some of the differences in aggressiveness between boys and girls may be due to the fact that parents tend to disapprove more of aggression in girls . |
| 41 | These differences may be due to the relative increase in mitochondrial genomes in the mutant strain ( mtDNA/nuclear DNA 1.5 compared with the wild-type strain ) . |
| 42 | O. opercularis is very similar to O. bairdi suggesting that any differences may be due to infraspecific variation . |
| 43 | The high strength of thin fibres may be due in part to the fact that such fibres are very easily bent and it is therefore easier to bend them than to scratch them . |
| 44 | The advancing coasts may be due to emergence or to the development of constructional forms either organic or inorganic : they include , thus , shorelines which would have been classed by Johnson as emergent and as neutral . |
| 45 | Some plunging cliffs may be due to faulting , downwarping and volcanic flows of very recent date in tectonically mobile areas such as New Zealand . |
| 46 | ‘ The sugar ships should be due in November . |
| 47 | Alternatively , the discrepancies might be due to characteristics of the tasks used to assess the different types of linguistic ability . |
| 48 | These differences might be due to lower doses used insome of the studies , short measurement periods after oral ingestion that might not have been sufficient to reach effective drug concentrations , and the fact that we investigated oesophageal motility on day four of oral drug treatment . |
| 49 | Some of the major differences could be due to this . |
| 50 | Chicago-based advertising screens on shopping trolleys specialist VideOcart Inc has persuaded IBM Corp to let it restructure its $42m debt to IBM , to provide the company with relief from near term debt payments and enable it to attain its business goals : a $22m debt would replace the existing debt , giving VideOcart a one-time balance sheet gain of $20m ; terms of the new agreement include waiving all principal and interest payments until July 31 , and VideOcart retains its rights under a previous agreement with IBM that allows early repayment of the new $22m debt at any time for $17m in cash ; VideOcart also agreed to cancel a warrant granted last year to IBM to buy 540,000 VideOcart shares and grants a new warrant to buy 600,000 shares at $1.75 each ; from August 31 to December 31 , interest only payments will be due , but payments of $500,000 a month will be due beginning on January 31 1994 and will continue for 35 months , and a balloon payment will be due on December 31 1996 , although IBM has the option to convert the balance of the debt into VideOcart common shares at $8 a share on that date . |
| 51 | I mean any visit to a gesopholar laboratory will persuade you some very , very striking differences , you know , like having four wings instead of two , or even four legs instead of six I 've had in the lab — you know , really quite striking differences can be due to a single Mendelising gene , no problem about that . |
| 52 | Infection of the fallopian tubes must remain the most important cause of infertility today , although only a minority of cases will be due to gonorrhoea . |
| 53 | The calming and relaxing effect of electro-acupuncture using 10 Hz through particular acupuncture points may be due to a similar reason . |
| 54 | The decrease in numbers may be due in part to the transfer of readers to the Scottish Science Library as its services have become better known . |
| 55 | These contrary results using implied volatilities may be due to the form of option pricing model used , or they may reveal a difference between ex ante and ex post prices in measuring price volatility . |
| 56 | These results may be due to chance , but the figures suggest that it is worth trying to do semi-automatic correction . |
| 57 | You should report any vaginal discharge , pain after intercourse or abdominal pain , especially if accompanied by fever , as these symptoms may be due to pelvic infection which requires prompt treatment . |
| 58 | Obviously the symptoms may actually be due to an infection of the bladder — such infections are certainly more common among women who are sexually active than among those who are not — and the symptoms may be due , if not to a sexually transmitted disease , to other minor infections such as thrush ; but in many cases no bacteriological offender is found to account for the symptoms . |
| 59 | The increased number of urinary tract infections seen in uncircumcised young children may be due to ‘ hospital strains ’ of uropathogenic P-fimbriated Escherichia coli acquired in the unnatural environment of modern obstetric units rather than being directly related to the foreskin . |
| 60 | Maccoby and Jacklin ( 1974 ) refuse to consider the psychoanalytically-influenced hypothesis that women 's low scores might be due to strong but repressed , rather than weak , aggression , because the first of these is not susceptible to traditional psychological testing . |