Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [adv] [be] due to " in BNC.

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1 If treatment is started with higher potencies e.g. LM 3 and above , then initial aggravations could also be due to a higher potency as with the centesimal potencies .
2 The disorder arises as a result of brain damage , particularly of the left parietal lobe , and for the label apraxia to be applicable , the patient 's difficulties must not be due to problems in comprehending the examiner 's instructions .
3 This has the merit of allowing researchers to identify changes in attitudes among a population in a more reliable way than random sampling where variations might simply be due to variations between samples .
4 The numbers may partly be due to the reputation Switchboard enjoys as a good training ground for employment , mainly in the voluntary social services ( every time the organization manages to build up a core of daytime volunteers , half of them find jobs ) but the largest group of prospective volunteers are past callers , people who , having found the service useful , want to contribute to its continued existence .
5 Firstly , the results may simply be due to chance since a search for clusters is likely to reveal some spatial aggregations of cases even if there is no causal explanation : this is particularly true if the age groups , areas , calendar periods , and diagnostic groups to be studied are not specified in advance .
6 Obviously the symptoms may actually be due to an infection of the bladder — such infections are certainly more common among women who are sexually active than among those who are not — and the symptoms may be due , if not to a sexually transmitted disease , to other minor infections such as thrush ; but in many cases no bacteriological offender is found to account for the symptoms .
7 For the same reason many other factors have to be controlled in order to rule out the possibility that the observed correlations might not be due to these other causes .
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