Example sentences of "[noun pl] may [be] due to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus differences in pay and prestige between occupational groups may be due to differences in their power rather than their functional importance . |
| 2 | When contraception is not used , long pregnancy intervals may be due to breastfeeding and abstinence . |
| 3 | Speculation that the rapid decline of many of the world 's amphibians may be due to acid rain has been dampened by a study carried in the Rocky Mountains by the US Fish and Wildlife Service . |
| 4 | Indeed , the evolution of the communal behaviour of individual males may be due to strategies whereby co-operative action increases the chances of individuals mating with females . |
| 5 | Inconsistencies in the results of previous studies may be due to variations in the level of symptom recall , patient complaint , or consultation with medical practitioners and type of investigation performed on the various study populations . |
| 6 | The advancing coasts may be due to emergence or to the development of constructional forms either organic or inorganic : they include , thus , shorelines which would have been classed by Johnson as emergent and as neutral . |
| 7 | Some plunging cliffs may be due to faulting , downwarping and volcanic flows of very recent date in tectonically mobile areas such as New Zealand . |
| 8 | These results may be due to chance , but the figures suggest that it is worth trying to do semi-automatic correction . |
| 9 | Firstly , studies comparing salmeterol 50 µg twice daily with salbutamol 200 µg four times a day are not comparing equi–effective doses and differences between the two drugs may be due to differences in dose rather than differences in drug . |
| 10 | Unsafe working practices may be due to ignorance , and providing education and training about safer methods can help reduce the risk of exposure to blood-borne pathogens . |