Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [be] due " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such views may be due to the sporadic publication of relevant data , particularly that of time series , for statistically more developed countries . |
| 2 | Respiratory signs may be due to larval damage in the lungs or to the anoxic effects of anaemia . |
| 3 | Thus differences in pay and prestige between occupational groups may be due to differences in their power rather than their functional importance . |
| 4 | Since the two groups are as alike in all respects except that one of them , the experimental group , has received the supposedly causal treatment , the new teaching style , then any differences in academic attainment between the two groups must be due either to chance or to the causal factor . |
| 5 | A FULL inquiry has begun into remarks by a senior Strathclyde Region official that the high numbers of black and Asian children in special schools could be due to genetic or nutritional factors . |
| 6 | Secondary porosities can be due to the dissolution of detrital grains ( Fig. 5.16c , d ) , of cements and authigenic minerals ( Fig. 5.16e ) plus shrinkage of certain sediments ( particularly glauconitic sediments ) , and fracturing after cementation . |
| 7 | When contraception is not used , long pregnancy intervals may be due to breastfeeding and abstinence . |
| 8 | At least some of these errors may be due in part to individual differences in dialect and incorrect pronunciation , but these four examples were produced in response to correctly spoken words in a spelling test . |
| 9 | Speculation that the rapid decline of many of the world 's amphibians may be due to acid rain has been dampened by a study carried in the Rocky Mountains by the US Fish and Wildlife Service . |
| 10 | Ignoring these rhythmicities may be perilous , and some of the symptoms of jet lag , shiftwork , ageing , insomnia , and affective disorders may be due to their temporal disorganisation . |
| 11 | Some of the gaps must be due to chance , but there is no mistaking the insularity of interest which these volumes display . |
| 12 | Each element or group of elements has its own particular trademark , which can not be copied , so that these two yellow lines must be due to sodium and nothing else . |
| 13 | He guessed that these effects might be due to intoxication by one of the compounds he was working with , and confirmed his idea by deliberate experiment . |
| 14 | The possibility that the effects could be due to internal contamination by radioactive substances , a chemical , or some other exposure at work should be explored . |
| 15 | Thirteen of the health effects would be due to thyroid cancer fatalities , assuming a 5 per cent fatality rate among a total number of expected thyroid cancers of 250 . |
| 16 | Or perhaps you 've been telling her about when her periods will be due . |
| 17 | Lower seroconversion rates in 9-month-olds than in 6-month-olds could be due to a higher incidence of infections with non-polio enteroviruses or other enteric pathogens , which are known to interfere with antibody responses to OPV . |
| 18 | The lower incomes may be due to the types of jobs available in country locations or to lower wages being paid in rural areas compared to urban areas for the same jobs . |
| 19 | An increase in the number of veins may be due either to an increase in the number of branches of a principal vein , or to the development of secondary longitudinal veins , between preexisting veins . |
| 20 | Some portion of these costs must be due to the particular sort of culture — surprisingly uniform , across these very different companies — that our sample firms sought to induce : a high participative one . |
| 21 | Attention has already been drawn to one of the objectives in establishing the Scottish Journal of Geology in 1965 , which was the rapid publication of results of research in Scottish geology carried out in universities , so that this may account in part for the halving of the average delay period after 1965 , but subsequent reductions must be due to other factors . |
| 22 | Attention has already been drawn to one of the objectives in establishing the Scottish Journal of Geology in 1965 , which was the rapid publication of results of research in Scottish geology carried out in universities , so that this may account in part for the halving of the average delay period after 1965 , but subsequent reductions must be due to other factors . |
| 23 | The other three high-frequency bands must be due to CO stretches . |
| 24 | In a simple case , a salesman 's failure to achieve normal and apparently realistic targets might be due to a change in the size or nature of his territory or other factors which are entirely beyond his personal control . |
| 25 | Indeed , the evolution of the communal behaviour of individual males may be due to strategies whereby co-operative action increases the chances of individuals mating with females . |
| 26 | The different results from the two studies may be due to the diurnal variation in albumin excretion rate or to different methods being used for estimating urinary albumin . |
| 27 | Inconsistencies in the results of previous studies may be due to variations in the level of symptom recall , patient complaint , or consultation with medical practitioners and type of investigation performed on the various study populations . |
| 28 | Transient deterioration in neuropsychological function has been shown convincingly during short periods of experimental hyperphenylalaninaemia , and it has been argued that the changes may be due to neurotransmitter deficiency . |
| 29 | In some cases these changes may be due to the tendency of tracheoles to migrate actively towards areas of high oxygen demand , drawing the tracheae after them ( Wigglesworth , 1954 ; Smart , 1956 ) . |
| 30 | With the exception of Romania ( where the extremely high maternal mortality caused by abortions may be due to illegal interruption of pregnancies as a consequence of abrupt termination of a previously free induced abortion system ) , maternal mortality due to obstetric causes is much higher than those caused by abortion . |