Example sentences of "[adj] due to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As previously mentioned , the use of CDAI as the criteria to assess clinical efficacy in the study of Locjs et al may be controversial due to the importance of the number of bowel movements on the CDAI score .
2 Spurgeon 's six Corinthian columns were kept but the number of seats was reduced to 2,700 due to the decline in the congregation after the great preacher 's death .
3 The effects of the recession were reflected in the chairman 's report to the foundation 's agm , which recorded a deficit of £69,220 for 1991-92 due to a combination of increased expenditure on coaching activities and a fall-off in sponsorship .
4 Fluctuations occurred throughout the year : the deficit in May was $10,200 million , an increase of 23.6 per cent over April due to an increase in imports of oil and industrial equipment and to the effect on exports of the rise in value of the dollar ; in July and September the deficits fell to a five-year low due to a decline in the purchase of foreign machinery and consumer goods , and to an increase in aircraft exports .
5 I just wanted to leave the tent , but as this was not possible due to the weather outside , I snuggled down in my sleeping bag and tried to make myself comfortable on the hard , stony ground .
6 I asked for my husband to be returned from the Gulf but this was not possible due to the ground war beginning .
7 At the end even the naval officer , all dressed in white , is murderous due to the war , which Golding felt very strongly against due to his participation .
8 ‘ Largemouth ’ is now almost extinct in the lake , and it is estimated that probably 50% of other species are also now extinct due to the introduction of the predatory Nile Perch as a food fish some 40 years ago .
9 We need to find the magnetic flux through ring 2 due to the current in ring 1 .
10 Despite the fact that relief trailers were provided for the homeless they remained empty due to the lack of available land on which to site them , yet the government refused to take over corporate land even for humanitarian purposes .
11 Introduced to European fishkeepers in the early 1930s , it is once again popular due to the appearance of a golden variety .
12 ‘ Very high increases could lead to a recession as happened in the late 1970s and early 80s due to the oil price hikes .
13 Was this due to a failure of prediction — or to a failure to see that the word had ‘ dd ’ in the middle and therefore could not be ‘ happened ’ ?
14 The population in 1961 was 629 but has now risen to just over 800 and will probably remain at this due to the closeness of BP Chemicals which dominates the skyline at Saltend .
15 Paris-based computer services and distribution group Metrologie International SA said it had an operating loss in the first quarter of 1993 due to a drop in activity and pressures to reduce gross margins : the loss was equivalent to about $3.6m and turnover on a like-for-like basis fell 15.9% to $73.5m .
16 When they agreed to halve their poster advertising , they chose a base year when spending was unnaturally high due to a competition war .
17 The site of the infection thus becomes hot , throbbing , swollen and often red — due to the increased fluid and cells present — and painful due to the swelling .
18 During the last two years we have witnessed many people 's lives in West Belfast getting poorer , nastier , more brutal and arguably shorter due to the introduction of the Social Fund , high interest rates and cuts in the health service .
19 Singing was physically impossible due to the state of his throat , and practically impossible , as he later admits .
20 Consequently if the state appears to be autonomous due to the action of elected elites , we can not be certain whether political leaderships are behaving as ‘ state ’ elites or ‘ social ’ elites .
21 Carlo was made a cardinal at 22 and Archbishop of Milan at 26 , though it has been suggested that these appointments were as much due to the boy 's uncle being Pope Pius IV as to any inherent abilities .
22 The backs of my legs were trembling at that time , but this was probably as much due to the cold as to the feeling of betrayal that had invaded my being .
23 Any feeling of insecurity in the reader 's mind concerning this dual interpretation of unc is not so much due to the perversity of the author but is rather due to the dual role that the public at large expects x to play .
24 I am sure our experience with our youngest child has been very much due to the fact that the whole family has been involved .
25 Given these assertions , it is easy to see that one reason for the neglect of Freud by sociologists , especially in Britain and to a lesser extent in the United States , is as much due to the fact that intellectual fashions have changed as to anything intrinsic to Freud 's theory .
26 Clearly confidence in a bank would quickly suffer if cheques were returned unpaid due to a bank having insufficient funds in its operational account at the Bank of England , if a clearing bank .
27 The climate in winter is mild , since the air almost always blows from the sea , which is warm due to the North Atlantic Drift .
28 From the hypothesis that adaptation is proprioceptive due to the learning of arm movements , this is what should be expected .
29 Using this estimate gives an approximate number of additional households among those under 45 due to the increase in marital breakdown over this 20-year period of around 200 thousands .
30 I have tried it on some plain laces and , as with the No. 2 switch , the effect is not simple due to the structure of lace — the resulting fabric is quite different to the original .
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