Example sentences of "may be due [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This may be due to the complete absence of functional Ea and/or non-polymorphism of the Ea gene product . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | While this seems to be reading more into Quinn 's analysis than is justified , work by Mintzberg ( 1978 ) , Miller and Friesen ( 1982 ) , and Pettigrew ( 1985a , 1985b ) , supports the notion of incrementalism , but in a form of uneven development with long-term gradual change punctuated by bursts of ‘ revolutionary ’ change which may be due to the economic environment , management change or other factors usually , but not necessarily , associated with commercial crisis . |
| 6 | Of course , they may be due to the stochastic component of the process and therefore be unpredictable , or they may be due to the systematic or predictable component . |
| 7 | Of course , they may be due to the stochastic component of the process and therefore be unpredictable , or they may be due to the systematic or predictable component . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Two previous experimental studies have shown an opposite effect , which may be due to the different species or sex of animals used and the methods of assessing cellular proliferation ( stathmokinetic technique v labelling index using tritiated thymidine ) . |
| 12 | Such views may be due to the sporadic publication of relevant data , particularly that of time series , for statistically more developed countries . |
| 13 | These differences may be due to the relative increase in mitochondrial genomes in the mutant strain ( mtDNA/nuclear DNA 1.5 compared with the wild-type strain ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Our present results show that healing of duodenal ulcers with a regime that also eradicates H pylori produces a fall in basal acid secretion that may be due to the concomitant fall in basal plasma gastrin concentration . |
| 16 | The increased parietal cell mass may be due to the longterm trophic effects of H pylori induced hypergastrinaemia on the oxyntic mucosa , due to smoking , represent the genetic factor in duodenal ulcer , or be due to any combination of these . |
| 17 | For this reason , the low value of the correlation coefficient does not necessarily mean the lack of relationship between variables ; it may be due to the non-linear nature of the relationship . |