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

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1 A FULL inquiry has begun into remarks by a senior Strathclyde Region official that the high numbers of black and Asian children in special schools could be due to genetic or nutritional factors .
2 Thus , Jones and Goethals ( 1971 ) , reviewing this and similar studies , argue that the primacy effect could be due to one of three possible causal processes : attention decrement , discounting , and assimilation .
3 The possibility that the effects could be due to internal contamination by radioactive substances , a chemical , or some other exposure at work should be explored .
4 The increase in laminin concentrations in these patients could be due to increased synthesis by Ito cells .
5 Some of the major differences could be due to this .
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