Example sentences of "due to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise , scorch marks on kitchen worktops due to a hot pan being placed on a worktop is not considered as fire damage . |
| 2 | Having lost several pints of blood due to a nasal haemorrhage , he was much too weak to continue . |
| 3 | The SSPCA said it was distressed that an extreme case of animal cruelty has failed due to a procedural error . |
| 4 | The electric field due to a varying magnetic field |
| 5 | The caution was due to a dark cloud on Airtours ' horizon : the rumour of a possible price war . |
| 6 | However , even this breaks down in some cases — for instance , in the form of hypercholesterolaemia due to a low density lipoprotein receptor defect , the pathology is quantitative , and introducing a normal gene may improve the prognosis , even in adults in whom the disease is dominant . |
| 7 | An eventual 9.5 point gain on the Footsie to 2600.5 was mainly due to a strong early-session bounce on Wall Street . |
| 8 | It is therefore arguable that the tendency towards singular reference with the mixed-descriptions is at least in part due to a strong tendency for named characters to be used as thematic subjects or main characters in continuations , although there is a small first-mention effect . |
| 9 | Look are you , are you looking second sentence , Jemma 's second sentence : This is due to a strong and sweet smell , in middle English it says , by cause of virtues and sweet smell and savour . |
| 10 | Due to a recent rule change , players who fail at the pre-qualifying stage can now return to amateur competition . |
| 11 | Due to a recent change in the law , Holland may become a clearing house for international art thefts . |
| 12 | On Oct. 23 the Nigerian news media reported that peace talks between the Sudanese government and the southern rebel Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) had been postponed due to a recent split within the SPLA leadership . |
| 13 | Mr Grace had recently suffered an injured arm due to a recent car accident and could not swim . |
| 14 | He , who had been fêted in Munich , had talked with the elector and other noblemen , and been treated with the respect due to a great artist , now had to take his place in the archiepiscopal pecking-order — below the valets , and only slightly higher than the cooks . |
| 15 | The success of the Three-Ninetieth was due to a great team moulded together by superb leadership . |
| 16 | Moffatt , whose long lay-off was due to a facial injury , made it eight wins in a row ( five inside the distance ) by forcing Dhalie into retirement at the end of the fourth round with a damaged shoulder . |
| 17 | A WOMAN who was told she could never have children due to a rare disease has just given birth to a daughter . |
| 18 | She was said to be the most handicapped person in Britain at that time , since , due to a rare muscular disease , she was paralysed throughout her whole body except in her big toe . |
| 19 | Partly misinterpreting this as due to a favourable relative demand shift the typical supplier increases output to take advantage of what ( wrongly ) appears to be a high relative price . |
| 20 | The trade balance on alcoholic drinks is in surplus , entirely due to a favourable trade balance in Scotch Whisky of £1.8 billion ( Figure 5.5 ) . |
| 21 | Of claimants who had a clinical examination , 90% were satisfied while 7% were dissatisfied — mainly due to a perceived lack of thoroughness . |
| 22 | The formalist critic dismisses her as a serious contender for the mantle of ‘ modern artist ’ due to a perceived lack of innovation and refusal of the essentialist mandate of formalism . |
| 23 | Within the West German Bundeswehr ( the armed forces ) there was falling morale due to a perceived decline in popular support . |
| 24 | The main trouble with the scheme is that we can not be sure that an apparent X effect is not due to a differential influence of some extraneous factor(s) on the S 1 and S 2 groups . |
| 25 | One of the principal concerns emerging from scenarios of regional climates which may be experienced due to a carbon-dioxide-induced warmer earth is that of warmer and drier conditions in the Corn Belt of the United States , especially since much of the world food market depends upon the availability of grain from that country . |
| 26 | Switches and pots can also become noisy due to a small voltage leak across the transmitter 's input . |
| 27 | But if it is due to a small proportion of an impurity it can usually be dealt with by careful purification or by exposing the sample to the laser beam for some time ( a process called photo-bleaching ) . |
| 28 | Towards the end of his life he told Osbert Sitwell ; ‘ Any talent I may have was due to a long illness as a boy , which afforded me time to think , and subsequent ill-health , because I was not allowed to play games , and so had to teach myself , for my enjoyment , to use my eyes instead of my feet . ’ |
| 29 | The delay was partly due to a long and very public debate between PADA and ARROW , a group of residents from Woodchurch , the estate where heroin use was first discovered , who were unhappy about such a centre being opened near their homes , fearing it would attract various sorts of trouble . |
| 30 | It is also due to a long term and possibly accelerating rise in demand . |