Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [be] due to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time when rent levels were falling , some less profitable land also went out of cultivation ( although the extent of this is hard to measure ) , so it is clear that the fall in rents must have been due to a shortage of potential tenants rather than to a greater supply of land , which might have resulted from the clearance of forest or the reclamation of fenland . |
| 2 | Part of this success must have been due to the Dottridges ' persuasive advertising : |
| 3 | The situation in ( i ) must have been due to the act or default of the ‘ other person . ’ |
| 4 | and Sobel and Collett to find an effect of vertical disparities might have been due to the relatively small angular extents ( 8–11° and 30° ) of the stereoscopic surfaces used in their experiments . |
| 5 | In the deductive marking experiment there was not a conflict of beliefs , so the five-year-olds ' performance might have been due to the fact that the context did not highlight the need for a deductive explanation . |
| 6 | This might have been due to the support from the student management system . |
| 7 | The woman next to Mr pugh seemed to be in tears , but that might have been due to the compost . |
| 8 | This result could have been due to the inclusion of mostly elderly patients in the control group who may have been harbouring M tuberculosis from a primary asymptomatic tuberculous infection , which was common in their youth . |
| 9 | For instance the increase could have been due to the taste of the methylanthranilate itself rather than the learned association of pecking and tasting . |
| 10 | This may have been due to a reluctance to suck more money out of a generous population , or to the usual delays in carrying out orders from Moscow . |
| 11 | Not only have investors miscalculated the willingness of British people to join organisations — which may have been due to a lack of appreciation of the different cultures on each side of the Atlantic , disguised by a common language — but the benefits on offer through these so-called affinity schemes can be obtained in this country through countless other sources . |
| 12 | The demise of the Civil Service Department may have been due to a feeling by ministers that it was too conscious of the interests of staff . |
| 13 | One suspects that this may have been due to a sense of betrayal , when Duke Philip of Burgundy 's change of policy in the mid 1430s turned Flanders into a hostile country instead of an ally , and partly to the closeness of past commercial ties , when the wool trade had linked the two lands in any uneasy partnership . |
| 14 | This rather unusual development may have been due to the influence of Hu Yaobang in the Ministry of Propaganda or to a younger generation of journalists who demanded more honesty in their reporting . |
| 15 | The fungal growth may have been due to the water quality being affected by the chemicals , or it could have set in where damage had occurred as a result of the flicking . |
| 16 | This may have been due to the tendency of the former to attract in young people , leading to net gains by migration among 15–24-year-olds ( Chapter 10 ) . |
| 17 | To some extent this may have been due to the Stanleys ' own efforts , since they had the firmer territorial base in the region , but it must also reflect the king 's wishes . |
| 18 | Their resilience and in part fortuitous revival may have been due to the slightly more permissive policies of the Popular Front government in Paris — thousands of political prisoners were released although thousands more remained in gaol — but much more seems to have been the result of the ability to rebuild an organization from the bottom up even though the advice and instructions they received from international communism meant acquiescence in policies which did not give them pre-eminent appeal as a revolutionary party . |
| 19 | This may have been due to the support of Steel-Maitland who was a founder member before he became Party Chairman and who later served on its committee on mental health . |
| 20 | This may have been due to the long delays in the submission and execution of spot trades caused by the overloading of the NYSE order routing system . |
| 21 | This may have been due to the fact that preparations for hosting the 1966 World Cup Finals were under way and there were fears that , as the English game came under greater international scrutiny , football hooliganism could damage the nation 's prestige . |
| 22 | To some extent this may have been due to the Stanleys ' own efforts , since they had the firmer territorial base in the region , but it must also reflect the king 's wishes . |
| 23 | This may have been due to an accident , but two Ju88s of 5/LG 1 were badly damaged over Malta , presumably hit by A.A. fire and force-landed at Catania on their return . |
| 24 | Towards the end of his life he told Osbert Sitwell ; ‘ Any talent I may have was due to a long illness as a boy , which afforded me time to think , and subsequent ill-health , because I was not allowed to play games , and so had to teach myself , for my enjoyment , to use my eyes instead of my feet . ’ |