Example sentences of "may [be] due to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Partly , this may be due to the fact that outside the tropics atmospheric circulation is from west to east , due to Coriolis forces , the forces which result from the effect of the Earth 's rotation on moving bodies . ) |
| 3 | However , a possible explanation has been put forward by Brooks et al ( 1971 ) , which proposes that softening of the atheromatous plaque may be due to the presence of unusual lipids ( cholesteryl esters of hydroxyoctadecadienoic acid ) found in high concentrations in ulcerated plaques ( Harland et al , 1971 ) which are thought to produce smooth muscle cell necrosis at the base of the plaque . |
| 4 | Some of the differences in aggressiveness between boys and girls may be due to the fact that parents tend to disapprove more of aggression in girls . |
| 5 | This may be due to the poor quality of the preaching or it may be due to the fact that some Christians have their own interpretation of the dominical saying , ‘ Except ye be as little children ye can not enter the kingdom of heaven ’ . |
| 6 | This may be due to the poor quality of the preaching or it may be due to the fact that some Christians have their own interpretation of the dominical saying , ‘ Except ye be as little children ye can not enter the kingdom of heaven ’ . |
| 7 | This may be due to the generation gap . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Certainly the feeling excited here is strange and unusual , and this may be due to the confusion in the man 's mind between his sheep and his children ( lines 21–30 , 81–90 ) . |
| 10 | This may be due to the economic climate , but also the harsh reality of trying to justify fee increases to clients whose perception of the audit service has not changed . |
| 11 | This understanding may be due to the farmers being highly tolerant because there are so few walkers , but if you 've ever sat down to have a chat with a shepherd on the windy fellsides you might be more likely to say that tolerance and friendliness is in their nature . |
| 12 | This may be due to the ‘ halo effect ’ of expecting bad behaviour from a child labelled as naughty . |
| 13 | I believe that this may be due to the sense of security and feeling of being safe which comes from familiar methods and tasks . |
| 14 | This may be due to the fact that the article appears to be ‘ lifted ’ from my newsletter which appeared in the Autumn 1992 edition of the ‘ Cornishman ’ magazine . |
| 15 | We believe that the differences in affinities determined by the different techniques may be due to the relatively rapid sampling of the filter-binding assay . |
| 16 | The smaller decrease for Mg 2+ ( 1.4-fold ) may be due to the interference of high Mg 2+ concentration on the interaction of Ca 2+ with calmodulin . |
| 17 | The higher K m and lower Hill coefficient obtained with this assay may be due to the hydrophobic nature of this dye and its interaction with the phospholipids and/or channel . |
| 18 | This may be due to the coarse resolution of the model ( 3.5 km vertically ) and a number of uncertainties remaining in the model calculations , such as the initial distribution of the volcanic cloud and the amount of SO 2 injected . |
| 19 | Female influence was greatest in consumer decisions , and least in public affairs ( although , as in the above example of voting choices , the researchers say that the latter finding may be due to the men 's unwillingness to admit to having serious political discussions with women ) . |
| 20 | The blunders of the Cour des Comptes may be due to the fact they worked on the basis of an often vaguely worded inventory of 1912 . |
| 21 | We belong to a dog club and someone there has suggested that this may be due to the fact that she is spayed . |
| 22 | In some cases these changes may be due to the tendency of tracheoles to migrate actively towards areas of high oxygen demand , drawing the tracheae after them ( Wigglesworth , 1954 ; Smart , 1956 ) . |
| 23 | A lower contact-rate may say nothing about the quality or duration of the contact , but may be due to the physical separation from kin caused by the relatively greater mobility of the middle class . |
| 24 | Of course , that increase may be due to the expansion of sales of primary products such as the boom in North Sea oil sales , so it is pertinent to consider the performance of manufacturing industry 's exports . |
| 25 | The lower incomes may be due to the types of jobs available in country locations or to lower wages being paid in rural areas compared to urban areas for the same jobs . |
| 26 | The results were mixed , and this may be due to the presence of another powerful factor ( the 1987 stock market crash ) during the data period . |
| 27 | These contrary results using implied volatilities may be due to the form of option pricing model used , or they may reveal a difference between ex ante and ex post prices in measuring price volatility . |
| 28 | The different results from the two studies may be due to the diurnal variation in albumin excretion rate or to different methods being used for estimating urinary albumin . |
| 29 | Indeed , differences over time and differences among hospitals , regions , and populations may be due to the proportion of primiparous women in the study group rather than to other variables . |
| 30 | This may be due to the very low population density — below 0.03 per acre ; similar ( slight ) differences between rural and urban areas are well known in certain childhood infectious diseases . |