Example sentences of "may be due to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The lack of popularity with the Cuk topology may be due to its problems relating to the energy-coupling capacitor . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This may be due to demographic distortion , low educational levels or to the impact of income subsidisation measures adopted by governments . |
| 5 | Banging sounds emanating from the boiler may be due to a build-up of scale or to air being drawn into the system . |
| 6 | Indeed , the evolution of the communal behaviour of individual males may be due to strategies whereby co-operative action increases the chances of individuals mating with females . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ) |
| 9 | Gorse and bracken spread ( the former significantly richer for wildlife than the latter ) may be due to a reduction in the intensity of land management in some parishes . |
| 10 | Taking the figures for smokers and non-smokers and allowing for all competing causes of death , the conclusion is that around one in 20 of the lung cancers in the UK may be due to radon exposure at home . |
| 11 | This may be due to a reduction of free water clearance resulting in elevation of the blood volume and suppression of renin while the osmotic effect of hyperglycaemia may further exacerbate the problem . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This effect which may be due to increased lipid peroxide levels in diabetes was reversed by insulin treatment ( Arbogast et al , 1982 ) . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | It may be due to two or more separate odours , emanating from two or more works , combining to give rise to a statutory nuisance . |
| 19 | On occasions an odour may be due to , or coincide with , the emission of dark or black smoke , in which case a local authority may be able to initiate action under the Clean Air Acts of 1956 and 1968 , except where the emission arises at works registered under the Alkali , etc. , Works Regulation Act 1906 . |
| 20 | The text does , however , refer to a rescript , and it has been pointed out that oddities in the structure and language may be due to incorporating that . |
| 21 | This may be due to the generation gap . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Some cases of ‘ weekend migraine ’ may be due to caffeine withdrawal . |
| 24 | In the case of synthetic chemicals apparently causing asthma , the effect may be due to irritation rather than an allergic reaction . |
| 25 | TABLE 7 SYMPTOMS THAT MAY BE DUE TO FOOD SENSITIVITY IN CHILDREN |
| 26 | In such cases , it may be quite difficult to distinguish hyperkinetic syndrome from normal' behaviour — emotional upset and misconduct may be due to family tensions , lack of discipline , an unsettled home life , difficulties at school , or a great variety of other causes . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The calming and relaxing effect of electro-acupuncture using 10 Hz through particular acupuncture points may be due to a similar reason . |
| 29 | ( On Mori figures , the swing was relatively low among Express and Mail readers , but this may be due to sampling variability . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |