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

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1 This may be due to managerial incompetence , in which case the state ( having taken over the investment side of the financial institutions ' business ) could exercise its prerogative as ‘ trustee of the people 's savings ’ to force managerial changes .
2 You should report any vaginal discharge , pain after intercourse or abdominal pain , especially if accompanied by fever , as these symptoms may be due to pelvic infection which requires prompt treatment .
3 O. opercularis is very similar to O. bairdi suggesting that any differences may be due to infraspecific variation .
4 This may be due to parental management techniques but may also be due to the temperamental state of the child .
5 This may be due to financial restrictions on travel but also because of the prevalence today of nationwide state societies in even ‘ primitive ’ areas so that one can no longer study ‘ simple ’ societies in isolation .
6 They may also be due to real differences over time .
7 Failure to act may be due to reactive inhibition which results from pain or fatigue and acts either as a barrier to repetition of the act or as a drive strengthening any activity associated with its reduction , such as rest ( Rivers 1964 pp 171–2 ) .
8 In some children this may be due to small functional bladder capacity , or to incomplete voiding when they do go to the lavatory ( Berg 1979 ; de Jonge 1973 ) .
9 But the change might equally well be due to economic factors which made vine growing unprofitable .
10 Pregnancy is often associated with two definite gall bladder abnormalities — namely , reduced gallbadder contractility which is believed to be due to raised progesterone concentrations , and the development of biliary sludge .
11 Hungarians understand perfectly well that this may be due to internal Romanian reasons — the Romanian army had played some part in the initial repression in Timisoara , but since it joined the rebellion this fact has been conveniently forgotten .
12 If the relationship is real the mechanisms are far from clear , except that the effect is unlikely to be due to external radiation ; the possibility that it could be due to internal contamination by radioactive substances or some other exposure at work should be pursued .
13 The possibility that the effects could be due to internal contamination by radioactive substances , a chemical , or some other exposure at work should be explored .
14 This effect which may be due to increased lipid peroxide levels in diabetes was reversed by insulin treatment ( Arbogast et al , 1982 ) .
15 The observed effect may be due to increased formation of such compounds as temperature increases .
16 The increase in laminin concentrations in these patients could be due to increased synthesis by Ito cells .
17 These findings are unlikely to be due to delayed antibody responses in the OPV group , since peak antibody concentrations are usually attained within 2–4 weeks after vaccination .
18 With the exception of Romania ( where the extremely high maternal mortality caused by abortions may be due to illegal interruption of pregnancies as a consequence of abrupt termination of a previously free induced abortion system ) , maternal mortality due to obstetric causes is much higher than those caused by abortion .
19 This may be due to competing demands for ( limited ) attention .
20 This may be due to inadequate learning but recent research suggests there is a severe disjunction between what is learned in formal science lessons and what is used in more social and affective situations .
21 Orthega and Paschero , however , consider all diseases to be due to environmental causes and miss out on the inherited factors present in the cause of the disease .
22 The reason for the higher figure is not clear , but may be due to environmental variations .
23 The impasse in the latest round of negotiations was widely believed to be due to continued French opposition to US proposals for a cut in the volume of EC-subsidised cereal exports .
24 This layer of attenuated velocity is known as the low velocity zone and the reduction in seismic wave velocities is considered to be due to partial melting in this region of the mantle .
25 Most of this extension of English may be due to political or commercial reasons .
26 Real chemical systems do show chaotic activity [ 5 ] , but this could be due to spatial , hydrodynamic irregularities rather than true chemical chaos .
27 Susan , Carol and Joan use the basilectal [ i ] / [ ] , while Stephen uses [ e : ] / [ o : ] — though this may be due to Eastern Caribbean ( St Vincentian ) influence .
28 Maccoby and Jacklin ( 1974 ) refuse to consider the psychoanalytically-influenced hypothesis that women 's low scores might be due to strong but repressed , rather than weak , aggression , because the first of these is not susceptible to traditional psychological testing .
29 Low overwinter fine root mortality , relative to growing season mortality , might be due to low maintenance respiration rates under cold soil temperatures , but it is unclear why roots produced in the 1989 growing season should continue to die at a slower rate during the 1990 growing season .
30 Because a squint may be due to serious disease , its sudden appearance should always be taken seriously .
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