Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb mod] be due " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even without him playing the improvement in the defence must be due to a large degree to his presence . |
| 2 | Banging sounds emanating from the boiler may be due to a build-up of scale or to air being drawn into the system . |
| 3 | Most cases of pathological phimosis result from balanitis xerotica obliterans , while the remainder may be due to a different , distinct fibrotic disease . |
| 4 | The change may be due , the study says , to warmer winter conditions , or to the growing popularity of bird tables . |
| 5 | The damage to the contents of the freezer must be due to : |
| 6 | Alternatively the decrease might be due to a progressive increase in vortex pinning in the superfluid as the neutron star slows down and cools . |
| 7 | In the case of synthetic chemicals apparently causing asthma , the effect may be due to irritation rather than an allergic reaction . |
| 8 | Some of the gaps must be due to chance , but there is no mistaking the insularity of interest which these volumes display . |
| 9 | The possibility that the effects could be due to internal contamination by radioactive substances , a chemical , or some other exposure at work should be explored . |
| 10 | Experts have said that the cadmium may be due either to pollution or to " natural seabed reserves " . |
| 11 | Thus the complex shapes taken up by protein molecules in the body may be due , at least in part , to the structural effects of the water . |
| 12 | ( 3 ) A requirement under this section to provide a specimen of blood or urine can only be made at a police station or at a hospital ; and it can not be made at a police station unless — ( a ) the constable making the requirement has reasonable cause to believe that for medical reasons a specimen of breath can not be provided or should not be required , or ( b ) at the time the requirement is made a device or a reliable device of the type mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) above is not available at the police station or it is then for any other reason not practicable to use such a device there , or ( c ) the suspected offence is one under section 4 of this Act and the constable making the requirement has been advised by a medical practitioner that the condition of the person required to provide the specimen might be due to some drug ; but may then be made notwithstanding that the person required to provide the specimen has already provided or been required to provide two specimens of breath . |
| 13 | Indeed , it has been suggested that much of the structural and morphological complexity of the Alps may be due to the accretion or partial subduction of such crustal fragments rather than the effects of simple collision of two large land masses . |
| 14 | Transient deterioration in neuropsychological function has been shown convincingly during short periods of experimental hyperphenylalaninaemia , and it has been argued that the changes may be due to neurotransmitter deficiency . |
| 15 | Taking the figures for smokers and non-smokers and allowing for all competing causes of death , the conclusion is that around one in 20 of the lung cancers in the UK may be due to radon exposure at home . |
| 16 | Therefore , mispricing in the UK may be due , in part , to such lags . |
| 17 | Although the itching may be due to the movement of the louse over the skin , it only moves a maximum of six inches per day , and it is more likely that an allergic reaction is set up to the lice themselves or to their faeces . |
| 18 | Although the drift of coarse material on the upper part of the beach must be due to wave action and not to current action , the role of currents in moving material over the sea floor is disputed . |
| 19 | Alternatively , the discrepancies might be due to characteristics of the tasks used to assess the different types of linguistic ability . |
| 20 | follow Lewis and Mo ( 1986 ) in arguing that the discrepancy may be due to a greater rise in the serious burglaries which involve insurance claims , and hence are more likely to be reported , especially given the increase in the number of personal telephones and the higher levels of home ownership . |
| 21 | Because the numbers are small and the results could be due to chance , studies of larger numbers of children are needed . |
| 22 | As spina bifida can result from incomplete closure of the neural tube , so abnormalities in the development of the gut can be due to failure of tubes to seal properly . |
| 23 | Obviously the symptoms may actually be due to an infection of the bladder — such infections are certainly more common among women who are sexually active than among those who are not — and the symptoms may be due , if not to a sexually transmitted disease , to other minor infections such as thrush ; but in many cases no bacteriological offender is found to account for the symptoms . |
| 24 | Thus for increasing exposure a rise in the reading could be due either to new material seen or to the phenomenon that we have called spreading , i.e. the effect according to which a subject is seen as larger merely because of a longer exposure . |
| 25 | Some of the increase must be due to migration as the maximum increase biologically possible in the time would be a doubling of the population . |
| 26 | Lack of robustness of the findings may be due to the relatively few numbers of still births in the interval classes and to other data problems , though the intervention of determinants that mediate the effect of birth interval , or some other factor can not be excluded either . |
| 27 | A paper by Dr Philip James of the University of Dundee published by the Lancet last year amplifies an idea first suggested in the 1930s that the disease may be due to the blockage of blood vessels of the nervous system by fat globules ( Lancet , 1982 , vol 1 , p 380 ) . |