Example sentences of "could be due [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It managed to hold its own yesterday and if it continues to strengthen the pundits reckon we could be due for another prolonged rally in shares in the New Year . |
| 2 | The cause of the mental impairment is not important — it could be due to a handicap from birth or due to a condition such as Alzheimer 's Disease . |
| 3 | With real mortgage rates on extra borrowing normally between 4 and 5 per cent , it is quite plausible that about a quarter to a third of the value of housing equity — estimated at £830billion at end-1987 — could be due to deregulation . |
| 4 | It could be due to defective plumbing , such as a leaking water pipe , gutters , downpipes , lead flashings , blocked wall cavities , driving rain ( where there are solid walls ) or even just condensation on cold surfaces . |
| 5 | But it could be due to defects in an enzyme that is responsible for detoxifying a variety of environmental chemicals . |
| 6 | This triumph could be due to the outcome of a fight for a mate , or over territory or for food , or over some other issue . |
| 7 | It could be due to the mild weather that occurred in the autumn when the lambs were conceived , he said . |
| 8 | They were not at first acute and Celia supposed that they could be due to indigestion and therefore a false alarm . |
| 9 | I had recently read that in America , research had suggested that Neon Tetra Disease could be due to a virus of the liver . |
| 10 | If you are ill and a doctor feels that this could be due to HIV , being tested will be an important part of finding out what 's wrong . |
| 11 | Broadly speaking , the increase in the postsynaptic response generated at potentiated synapses could be due to ( 1 ) presynaptic modifications which result in an increase in the amount of L-glutamate released per impulse , ( 2 ) postsynaptic modifications , such as an increase in the number of receptors or a change in their functional characteristics , ( 3 ) an extrasynaptic change , such as a reduction in uptake of L-glutamate by glial cells leading to increased neurotransmitter availability at the receptors , or ( 4 ) morphological modifications . |
| 12 | The additional bicarbonate ( 15% ) , derived from organic matter oxidation , could be due to the metabolism of as yet unknown Fe(III)-reducing microorganisms , or , given that the concretions contain some FeS , to the activity of SRB like Desulfobacter . |
| 13 | Conductivities are similar to those in the Basin and Range province of North America ( 0.1Sm -1 ) , which Bott considered could be due to a melt fraction in highly conducting rock . |
| 14 | There is some evidence that adopted children make greater use of the psychiatric services than the general population , though this could be due to class factors . |
| 15 | A central gravity anomaly , which underlies part of the carbonate shelf and hence is shown as a pink area , could be due to either a granite or a sedimentary basin . |
| 16 | Judging by site alone , 83 per cent could be due to venous disorders , and 10 per cent to arterial insufficiency — a disproportionate number of which affected male patients . |
| 17 | The Lancashire ‘ cotton famine ’ , due to the cessation of cotton supplies during the American civil war of 1863–66 which caused severe unemployment and poverty , demonstrated most clearly that unemployment could be due to causes over which workers had no control ; it also demonstrated the peaceful fashion in which the labouring poor could behave in such circumstances . |
| 18 | Thus , failure could be due to reluctance to speak English , to the way that black children are suspended between two worlds , or to the manner in which black , particularly West Indian , families do not encourage educational success . |
| 19 | On the other hand , the low prospective profitability could be due to the enterprise becoming trapped in a clearly sub-optimal line of production , i.e. one in which consumers were simply not willing to pay a price for the commodity sufficient to cover its costs of production ( including the opportunity cost of investment funds expressed in the rate of interest charged by the national investment bank ) . |
| 20 | I want you to look for anything unusual — anything that could be due to a black hole . |
| 21 | Macfarlane and colleagues suggest that the rise in incidence in Scotland in younger men could be due to a 40% increase in alcohol consumption in the United Kingdom as a whole . |
| 22 | If it was considered that events could be due to suffocation covert video surveillance was considered to be an appropriate option . |
| 23 | We suspect , however , that the reason for the low positivity in their experiment could be due to differences in sensitivity , and this study failed to include positive control tissue infected with tuberculosis to detect this . |
| 24 | Though an increased incidence of cancer could be due to ascertainment bias because hypertensive patients are under closer medical surveillance than normotensive patients , this would not account for the association between mortality from cancer and blood pressure . |
| 25 | The finding is based on small numbers and could be due to chance . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Because the numbers are small and the results could be due to chance , studies of larger numbers of children are needed . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Real chemical systems do show chaotic activity [ 5 ] , but this could be due to spatial , hydrodynamic irregularities rather than true chemical chaos . |
| 30 | Some of the major differences could be due to this . |