Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [be] due to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought maybe the response was due to people needing to cheer themselves up . |
| 2 | The remainder was due to clearance for cultivation and pasture . |
| 3 | The reduction was due to more severe symptoms with longer hospital stay in the supportive care group . |
| 4 | Indeed , unlike the lowlands where much of the change is due to a rejection of the 200-year-old ‘ enclosure landscape ’ much land use change in the uplands is the result of a continuing revaluation of the economic benefits , or otherwise , of reclaiming moorland for agricultural use , and abandonment of farmland ( Parry , 1976 ) can take place along-side reclamation ( Parry et al . |
| 5 | In the rest of the country , and in post-Plague London , the change was due to social trends more than anything else . |
| 6 | The change was due to the greater proportion of patients with colonic disease , which in this study had a worse prognosis . |
| 7 | The Chairman of the Board was due to be appointed at the end of last month , and is expected ( according to the old ‘ rules ’ ) to be the Christian Democrat Gian Luigi Rondi ( who admitted to not even knowing who Francis Bacon was ) , the last one having been a Socialist , the architect Paolo Portoghesi . |
| 8 | He went down to his car and down to his company stock and he says now what the money 's due to me you 'll get them in the post . |
| 9 | The latter must show that the transgression was due to the act of another , and the general rule for criminal liability is that an employer will not be vicariously liable for his employee 's crimes . |
| 10 | The case is due to be heard in October . |
| 11 | The court record will show the date by which the case is due to be set down for trial . |
| 12 | The day before the case was due to be heard , Gallacher walked towards the railway line near his Gateshead home . |
| 13 | The Llangurig line is a classic in this respect ; much of the damage is due to nature and man has not gone out of his way to remove a monument of the past . |
| 14 | So , too , in Ponting v. Noakes , the plaintiff 's horse reached over the defendant 's boundary , nibbled some poisonous tree there and died accordingly , and it was held that the plaintiff could recover nothing , for the damage was due to the horse 's own intrusion and , alternatively , there had been no escape of the vegetation . |
| 15 | In Bako National Park , Sarawak , it was found that in terms of percentage leaf area consumed , young leaves of Eugenia ochrocarpa ( Myrtaceae ) were eaten no more than mature ones , the damage being due to edge grazing , mining and holing ( in that order in both ) , whereas the leaves of the dipterocarp Shorea species were not significantly eaten as adults . |
| 16 | Who the rise was due to I do n't know except that I think David probably would n't have had the idea to have opened such wonderful offices and created such a great mystique about it which MainMan had . |
| 17 | Some suggested the progress was due to sterling 's recent weakness . |
| 18 | The framework is due to be out with major OEMs and key users in early 1993 . |
| 19 | The dip was due to a shift to products with lower margins and ongoing price pressures , said the company . |
| 20 | We walked down to a tank hangar on the far side of the camp where the mass was due to be held , and filed in to take our seats . |
| 21 | The important point is to diagnose whether the short-fall is due to internal causes or external pressures . |
| 22 | Ant plants are not necessarily found in nutrient-poor sites and many so-called ant-plant species sometimes have ants in them but sometimes do not , e.g. species of Aphanamixis and Chisocheton ( Meliaceae ) and many examples seem to show that the presence is due to ‘ casual ’ entrance through wounds suffered by the trees through damage by other animals or tree falls and so on . |
| 23 | 2.9 " Interest " means interest during the period from the date on which the payment is due to the date of payment both before and after any judgment at the Interest Rate then prevailing or should the base rate referred to in clause 1.8 cease to exist such other rate of interest as is most closely comparable with the Interest Rate to be agreed between the parties or in default of agreement to be determined by the Accountant acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator |
| 24 | The installation is due to be completed this month . |
| 25 | The year-book is due to be ‘ published ’ this spring , so if you have not yet submitted your entry , please send it now to the Alumni Office or directly to Annette Chinnery at . |
| 26 | Firms that avoided the worst excesses of the wheeling-dealing 1980s are making steady profits , and much of the loss was due to expensive restructuring at Shearson Lehman ( which spent $640m ) and Prudential-Bache ( $370m ) . |
| 27 | Anyone would think the loss was due to her own carelessness ! |
| 28 | The absence of any relation between birth weight and change in blood pressure percentile rank between 5–7 and 9–11 years suggested that the relation between birth weight and blood pressure is established by 5–7 years and that the subsequent increase in the strength of the association is due to blood pressure tracking and to the increasing dispersion of the blood pressure distribution with age . |
| 29 | The confrontation was due to the ambiguity in Poland 's Constitution about whether supreme responsibility for security lay with the President or with the Cabinet . |
| 30 | The ceremony is due to be held in April . |