Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb mod] be due " in BNC.
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| 1 | This of course might be due to the fact that the sample as a whole has a long working week ; it certainly contradicts the impression given by the women themselves that ‘ women 's work is never done ’ : |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The problem of motivation may be due to the lack of self-esteem and self-actualisation the job gives the employee . |
| 5 | This general type of bias may be due to a selective memory search for information favouring a positive personal outcome . |
| 6 | On the other hand it is possible thatsuch a diagnostic suspicion bias accounts for the modest increase in risk among current users but not former users of the pill , although previous work has suggested that this pattern of risk may be due to an accelerating effect of the pill . |
| 7 | Though an increased incidence of cancer could be due to ascertainment bias because hypertensive patients are under closer medical surveillance than normotensive patients , this would not account for the association between mortality from cancer and blood pressure . |
| 8 | Most of this extension of English may be due to political or commercial reasons . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Other changes in reporting may be due to shifts in public perceptions of police attitudes towards specific crimes . |
| 11 | Mintel chief executive John Cunningham said : ‘ Some of the variations in price will be due to differences in exchange rates , some will be due to the differences in local raw materials and production or shipping costs , and some will be due to variation in taxes . |
| 12 | Like many scientists , campaigners at Friends of the Earth in London ( including the author ) had assumed that the absence of strong evidence for forest decline in Britain might be due to a combination of climate ( moist conditions good for growing trees ) coupled with the possibility that magnesium in rain coming in from the sea might counteract leaching by acid rain . |
| 13 | An improvement or deterioration in the health conditions of a group in society may be due to factors other than access to or use of medical services . |
| 14 | differences in performance may be due to changes in technology ; |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Such increases in productivity might be due to new investment in existing industries , to speed-up and other kinds of changes on the shop-floor , or to a change in balance between low and high productivity sectors . |
| 17 | Differences in results over time may be due to errors which must be attached to judgements of mastery , whether test results or teachers ' judgements or both are used in making the judgement . |
| 18 | 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 . |