Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] due to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many cases there was no doubt at all : the glass had been in contact with some other solid and the cracks were due to simple scratching or scraping . |
| 2 | In both Alcoa and United Shoe the courts acknowledged that the defendants had built their market shares by legal means , but none the less found them guilty because their respective dominant positions were due to conscious choice . |
| 3 | Wood is not a material which suffers fools gladly and a great deal of the trouble with wooden aeroplanes was due to wooden people . |
| 4 | A total of 316 of the deaths in the 1586 men were due to cardiovascular disease , 235 being certified as due to ischaemic heart disease , 49 to stroke , and 32 to other circulatory diseases . |
| 5 | Some mistakes were due to genuine misunderstanding or fatigue ; others I am afraid can only be accounted for by criminal stupidity or irresponsibility . |