Example sentences of "might be due " in BNC.
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| 1 | I noticed that Aunt Louise could thread her needle without too much trouble and even write a few letters , but I had heard that sight is often impaired by poor health , and prided myself that this improvement might be due to good food and peace of mind . |
| 2 | Here he says that of all cases of hypertrophy of the external genitalia in women , physicians are most frequently consulted regarding the nymphae ( the inner labia ) and the clitoris , and that the causes of this condition , though not well understood , might be due to ‘ masturbation , excessive venery , or even the rubbing incident to a pruritis ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If , as a result , your company no longer requires your services , your dismissal might be due to redundancy . |
| 7 | Suspecting that her diarrhoea and wind might be due to Candida infection , she put her on an anti-Candida diet and a course of anti-fungal drugs . |
| 8 | Unthinkable that this anomaly might be due to a misspeaking of the orthodox surgical liturgy ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Alternatively the decrease might be due to a progressive increase in vortex pinning in the superfluid as the neutron star slows down and cools . |
| 11 | Low overwinter fine root mortality , relative to growing season mortality , might be due to low maintenance respiration rates under cold soil temperatures , but it is unclear why roots produced in the 1989 growing season should continue to die at a slower rate during the 1990 growing season . |
| 12 | The greater responsiveness of hindlimbs may reflect greater sensitivity of developmentally younger hindlimb mesenchyme to stimulation by FGF-4 , or alternatively , might be due to differences in mesenchyme specific to hind versus forelimbs . |
| 13 | 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 ’ : |
| 14 | The absence of this association might be due to the smaller number of subjects in our study . |
| 15 | Editor , — Roger Smith suggests that Paget 's disease might be due to infection with a viral agent early in life . |
| 16 | Alternatively , the discrepancies might be due to characteristics of the tasks used to assess the different types of linguistic ability . |
| 17 | Its apparent unpredictability might be due just to the operation of undisclosed effects-hidden variables they were called . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ( 3 ) A requirement under this section to provide a specimen of blood or urine can only be made at a police station or at a hospital ; and it can not be made at a police station unless — ( a ) the constable making the requirement has reasonable cause to believe that for medical reasons a specimen of breath can not be provided or should not be required , or ( b ) at the time the requirement is made a device or a reliable device of the type mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) above is not available at the police station or it is then for any other reason not practicable to use such a device there , or ( c ) the suspected offence is one under section 4 of this Act and the constable making the requirement has been advised by a medical practitioner that the condition of the person required to provide the specimen might be due to some drug ; but may then be made notwithstanding that the person required to provide the specimen has already provided or been required to provide two specimens of breath . |
| 20 | This might be due to the ineffectiveness of treatment , to a slow rate of progression of tumours , to competing causes of death , or , most likely , to a combination of all these factors . |
| 21 | The aim of this chapter is to help the reader to recognise the problems in an organisation which might be due to the inappropriateness of its structure , to compare the relative merits of known structures to his/her own organisation and to suggest changes and predict consequences . |
| 22 | His daughter says that he had been ill — the slight differences in his signature might be due to illness . " |
| 23 | If you have not bought any new appliances since you first moved into your home , or if your family has changed in numbers , you might be due for some updated versions . |
| 24 | However , Reichel himself claimed that he did not know the true reason for his dismissal , saying that he thought it might be due to disagreements over scientific policy . |
| 25 | The slightest change in the barometer , although it might be due to factors quite outside our control , would correspondingly depress them . |
| 26 | Conversely , a negative provocation test suggests that the patient 's pain is not due to the presence of irritant duodenal juice in the stomach , but could be associated with abnormal motility associated with DGR , or might be due to an unrelated cause . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This might be due to the accompanying reduction in synthesis of the 4 series leukotrienes . |
| 29 | To do this , and to ascertain whether any phosphorylation might be due to the DNA-PK , Jun 1-193 and Jun-Core were incubated with nuclear extract and [ γ 32 P ] ATP either in the presence or absence of DNA . |
| 30 | This might be due at least in part to the inability of the pSPL1 system to trap the terminal exons . |