Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [be] due to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The heart muscle suffers direct damage and many heart attacks are due to this direct cause as well as to arterial disease causing raised blood pressure .
2 In countries where the infant mortality is low , a large proportion of residual infant deaths are due to congenital anomalies ( defined as ‘ structural-morphological , functional and/or biochemical-molecular defects present at birth ’ ) .
3 Their productivity is low , fixed carbon being of the order of 10 mg m -2 of snow per day ; colour differences are due to different stages in development of the cells , and their sudden , often dramatic appearance during warm spells is more probably due to progressive loss of covering snow than to rapid proliferation ( Fogg , 1967 ) .
4 The authors ' ability to infer water chemistry quantitatively from sediment diatom assemblages is due to rapid developments over the past 5–10 years .
5 The differences between the LOB and Brown tagsets are due to minor alterations made by subcategorising some classes and redefining the boundaries of others .
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