Example sentences of "may [be] responsible [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider now to what extent changes in a country 's monetary variables may be responsible for cyclical variations in real output . |
| 2 | Our results indicate that epidermal LC express functional cadherins and suggest that cadherins may be responsible for certain biological properties of these highly specialized bone marrow-derived cells , including their propensity to persist in epidermis . |
| 3 | This blood-sucking abomasal nematode may be responsible for extensive losses in sheep and cattle , especially in tropical areas . |
| 4 | The wrong sort of chair may be responsible for many of our backaches today . |
| 5 | One office may be responsible for many millions of pounds worth of purchase orders . |
| 6 | There are three or four geochemical classes of plumes , and a different process may be responsible for each class . |
| 7 | The police believe he may be responsible for three robberies which took place in the Thames Valley region in one afternoon . |
| 8 | A further 7 per cent ( 31 ) of ulcers occurred above the gaiter area ; trauma may be responsible for some of these , particularly those on the anterior aspect , but the aetiological pattern of ulcers occurring in this region have been found to be so varied that positive aetiological indicators can not be identified from the ulcer site alone . |
| 9 | These data suggest that technical factors may be responsible for some cases of puchitis with mucosal ischaemia being a possible pathogenetic mechanism . |
| 10 | Only one member of this genus , Syngamus trachea , is of veterinary significance and parasitises the upper respiratory tract of non-aquatic birds ; it is commonly known as the " gapeworm " and may be responsible for respiratory distress and death . |
| 11 | There is now increasing evidence that smaller cells of diameter 2–20 um have been seriously underestimated in energy budgets ; they may be responsible for half the total primary production in southern waters and no less in the north . |
| 12 | These disorders are phenotypically distinct , depending on the parent of origin of the deleted chromosome , but both syndromes are often associated with hypopigmentation of the skin , hair and eyes ( see ref. 8 for review ) , and deletion of the P gene may be responsible for this hypopigmentation . |
| 13 | There are three main factors that may be responsible for this behaviour . |
| 14 | There are several possible mechanisms which may be responsible for this adaptation . |
| 15 | Additionally , it has been reported that circulating PYY concentrations are raised in patients with malabsorption and it was possible that high colonic fatty acid concentrations may be responsible for this exaggerated PYY release . |
| 16 | While a single defect may be responsible in small unique populations such as Pima Indians and Nauruans , in larger high prevalence populations a polygenic causation is most likely . |
| 17 | A single gene may be responsible in that although the identical twin concordance rate is only 40–50 per cent , there has been some suggestion that the other twin often has some schizoid features of personality which may be the same disease in a much milder form ( Emery , 1975 ) . |
| 18 | This is not to say that the overshadowing mechanism is not operating here or to deny that such a mechanism may be responsible in other cases for observed acquired distinctiveness effects . |