Example sentences of "be [adj] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 This general type of bias may be due to a selective memory search for information favouring a positive personal outcome .
32 Some patients suffering dementia as a consequence of Parkinson 's disease or Down 's syndrome show nerve damage virtually identical to that in Alzheimer 's patients : in contrast , dementia due to Huntington 's disease seems to be due to a specific deterioration of different nerve cells .
33 This is well known for oxygen , and can be due to a specific cellular orientation , and a spatial orientation of connective tissue of glycoproteins , collagen and other biopolymers .
34 The survival of such evidence may be due to a wide range of factors which need have little to do with contemporary activities ; at the time of occupation the possible use of raised floors may affect survival .
35 Granulomas can be due to a wide variety of causes but other investigations were negative and there has been no evidence of tuberculosis or other infecton on follow-up .
36 Alternatively the decrease might be due to a progressive increase in vortex pinning in the superfluid as the neutron star slows down and cools .
37 This finding may be due to a reduced level of arachidonic acid in platelet membrane phospholipids of diabetic subjects as described by Jones et al ( 1983 ) .
38 This is , of course , because , in the absence of aggregate demand shocks , any unexpectedly high price must be due to a relative demand shock .
39 This may be due to a lesser degree of familiarity with the larger units which are 1,000 times as large as the smaller units with which the pupils are likely to have more practical experience .
40 The hope is that addictive disease of all kinds may be found to be due to a common biochemical dysfunction and that it can therefore be corrected .
41 In a very few cases , serious mental disorders similar to schizophrenia or mania have been reported that may be due to a direct effect of HIV on the brain .
42 This could itself be due to a direct damaging or inhibitory effect on antral G cells or a lack of substances present in beer and wine that stimulate gastrin release .
43 The cause of the high pepsinogen C concentrations in patients on omeprazole treatment is unknown , but it may be due to a direct effect of omeprazole on the gastric mucosa to omeprazole induced hypergastrinaemia or bacterial overgrowth of the stomach because of acid inhibition .
44 Most cases of pathological phimosis result from balanitis xerotica obliterans , while the remainder may be due to a different , distinct fibrotic disease .
45 But being different can be due to a whole range of factors .
46 The difference turns out , however , to be due to a contextual clue .
47 The diagnosis was complicated as four days earlier a 14 year old boy from the same school had collapsed and died after a short illness of severe diarrhoea , which proved to be due to a fatal Salmonella enteritidis infection .
48 Even without him playing the improvement in the defence must be due to a large degree to his presence .
49 I mean any visit to a gesopholar laboratory will persuade you some very , very striking differences , you know , like having four wings instead of two , or even four legs instead of six I 've had in the lab — you know , really quite striking differences can be due to a single Mendelising gene , no problem about that .
50 The reason why a rational person would draw this inference is that an unexpectedly high price can be due to a positive aggregate demand shock or a positive relative demand shock , and it can of course arise from a combination of the two .
51 Conversely , a negative provocation test suggests that the patient 's pain is not due to the presence of irritant duodenal juice in the stomach , but could be associated with abnormal motility associated with DGR , or might be due to an unrelated cause .
52 On the other hand it is possible thatsuch a diagnostic suspicion bias accounts for the modest increase in risk among current users but not former users of the pill , although previous work has suggested that this pattern of risk may be due to an accelerating effect of the pill .
53 The cause of this is unclear but it could be due to the trophic effect of hypergastrinaemia on the oxyntic mucosa , an effect of smoking , an inherited characteristic , or a combination of these .
54 This must be due to the current lack of understanding of the design process and the risks associated with developing such a system .
55 It could be due to the mild weather that occurred in the autumn when the lambs were conceived , he said .
56 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 .
57 O. opercularis can be distinguished from O. bairdi by the disk bearing only low granules , the shape of the oral shield which is more rounded , the shape of the proximal oral papillae which are more rounded than those of O. bairdi , finally the tentacle pore is smaller — although this may be due to the small size of the specimen .
58 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 ’ .
59 The success of this greatly appreciated service must in a great measure be due to the pleasant and most helpful personality of the librarian .
60 However , the analyst should be aware that variances between the model and a particular user 's view could be due to the narrow perception of that user .
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