Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] due to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More usually there is no organic basis to sexual difficulty and probably upward of three quarters of cases are due to psychogenic causes . |
| 2 | Establishing the causes of mental handicap has always proved difficult , and even today , two-thirds of cases are due to unknown factors . |
| 3 | Sooty mould is caused by aphids , while split fruits are due to irregular watering |
| 4 | Sometimes their reservations are due to sensitive reasons concerning the proper use of language . |
| 5 | The 115 and 85K bands are due to nonspecific cross reactions of the antibody . |
| 6 | The city 's environmental problems are due to rapid urbanization , poor infrastructure and ineffective enforcement of regulations . |
| 7 | In a stressful home environment , whether the difficulties are due to parental mental illness or family discord , it seems that a good relationship with one parent ( or both parents ) , characterised by a high level of warmth and the absence of severe criticism , is protective . |
| 8 | The question whether these old marine terraces are due to differential uplift of the land or worldwide lowerings of sea level , is a highly controversial one . |
| 9 | The differences between the LOB and Brown tagsets are due to minor alterations made by subcategorising some classes and redefining the boundaries of others . |
| 10 | A small proportion of vaginal discharges are due to foreign bodies . |
| 11 | But most disappearances of teenage girls are due to domestic difficulties . |
| 12 | Their productivity is low , fixed carbon being of the order of 10 mg m -2 of snow per day ; colour differences are due to different stages in development of the cells , and their sudden , often dramatic appearance during warm spells is more probably due to progressive loss of covering snow than to rapid proliferation ( Fogg , 1967 ) . |
| 13 | It is possible that these symptoms are due to hormonal upsets , caused by anti-bodies affecting the ovaries . |
| 14 | For instance , to many researchers there does not seem to be a universal cause of depression : some depressions are due to lost love-objects ; some seem to be more constitutionally based . |
| 15 | Without being overcomplicated or analytical , many of our sensitivities are due to early life and subsequent experience . |
| 16 | Perhaps doctors should simply be encouraged to prescribe less ; after all , 3 per cent of admissions to acute wards are due to adverse drug reactions . |
| 17 | Whereas the aim of social advancement is to reduce individual inequalities but the social environment which produced them is left intact ( on the assumption that these inequalities are due to inadequate education effort on the part of individuals , the state or to inequality of ‘ education gifts ’ ) , the aim of the collective advancement is to give individual education and , at the same time , influence the social context in which the individuals live : an effort is made to involve as many persons as possible in the education campaign . |
| 18 | Indeed , according to a WHO estimate , in some Latin American countries , about one half of maternal deaths are due to illegal abortions . |
| 19 | In countries where the infant mortality is low , a large proportion of residual infant deaths are due to congenital anomalies ( defined as ‘ structural-morphological , functional and/or biochemical-molecular defects present at birth ’ ) . |