Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [was/were] due to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In part this was due to the public-sector controls on investment , but it was also because of the natural priorities that had operated year after year inside British Rail . |
| 2 | In part this was due to the recent unification of the kingdom ; he and his successors were felt to be kings not of one but of a group of kingdoms . |
| 3 | In part this was due to Henry II 's presence on the Continent from April 1180 to July 1181 ; in part it doubtless reflects the subdued mood of the Angoumois and the Limousin with so many of the wealthiest and most influential nobles away on pilgrimage . |
| 4 | In part this was due to the haste in which the system was introduced . |
| 5 | In part this was due to the weakness of the unions and the strength of the Federation . |
| 6 | In part this was due to an acute awareness of his own awkwardness as a speaker ; the stuttering circumlocutions , the ers and ahs , leading inexorably to a pained silence , or the word that always hung there like a tail , ‘ Anyway … ’ . |
| 7 | In part this was due to the continuance of agricultural depression , which not only left many rural areas bereft of a buoyant rate base but also lowered agricultural wages below the level at which even local authority rents could be afforded . |
| 8 | In part this was due to his commitment to the nationalist cause , though he played at best a minor role in the creation of Connolly 's Irish Citizen Army . |
| 9 | To a large degree this was due to the examples of famous churches such as Christ Church , Westminster Bridge Road , to which we have referred before . |
| 10 | The reason girls appeared to do better than boys at age eleven was due to the earlier onset of puberty in females , with its accompanying accelerated maturation . |
| 11 | A summons under R.S.C. , Ord. 14 was due to be heard on 23 November 1987 . |
| 12 | That it should be Hampshire 's good fortune to see this show first was due to good friends of the Horseshoe Theatre Company who had heard there was such a musical and the linkage with the Horseshoe 's artistic director , Adrian Reynolds was made . |
| 13 | No doubt this was due to thoughts of loved ones , such as old parents , destined to die alone , amidst an apathetic people , of a savage regime . |
| 14 | To some extent this was due to the influence of the er of of . |