Example sentences of "due to [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present the non-bank financial institutions collect the greater part of the personal sector financial surplus — the ‘ surplus income ’ which individuals are unable to use to finance real accumulation due to their separation from the means of production — and channel this into financing the government 's deficit , acquiring company shares , investing in property or overseas , all under the guidance of a speculative mode of calculation . |
| 2 | Sticklebricks give rise to as many types of play and conversation as the interlocking small bricks , but due to their change in physical appearance and the wheel shapes that come in the packs there is a wider provision for imaginative construction . |
| 3 | This is an example of opportunism by middle managers , due to their superiors ' inability to check their claims about what is actually in the best interests of the firm . |
| 4 | Cases where none of the words in a position appeared as headwords in the dictionary , but some nevertheless received a score due to their inclusion in the collocation list of some other word . |
| 5 | At the other end of the scale , heritability is one if all the differences among individuals are due to their genes . |
| 6 | The reason for their success seems to me to be less due to their perceptiveness concerning pre-capitalist conditions than due to the depth of their analysis of the nature of labour under capitalism . |
| 7 | If you feel it 's Yamaha , for instance , due to their quest for quality in Far Eastern production , then say so ; we 're looking for any reasoned answer . ) |
| 8 | Unfortunately , all the clever work in the midfield which allowed them to create overlaps and scoring opportunities was wasted due to their lack of pace out wide . |
| 9 | Many geniuses have foundered due to their lack of direction ; ultimately they could not find a way of remaining geniuses throughout their life . |
| 10 | Its second is the depression of those producing manufactured goods , whose costs will rise while they are unable to switch to exports due to their lack of competitiveness and flexibility . |
| 11 | It is argued that the contribution that the technicians make to the industry will be severely limited due to their lack of training in computer aided design . |
| 12 | Bar-Hillel [ 1967 ] argues for the superiority of meaning postulates over semantic markers due to their ability to represent arguments of lexical items , which are essential for expressing the relation between the meanings of words like ’ buy ’ and ’ sell ’ : for any x , y , z ( x sells y to z if and only if z buys y from x ) |
| 13 | Human readers have little difficulty in following the focus of this text , due to their ability to make elaborative inferences and recognise the thematic links that bind the sentences together into a cohesive whole . |
| 14 | It has been suggested that the success of the Germans is due to their ability to develop long-term relationships with their customers based on product quality and reliability . |
| 15 | The known clinical benefit of leukotriene inhibitors in ulcerative colitis , however , could still be due to their ability to indirectly decrease tissue reactive oxygen species . |
| 16 | Not all bee strains are hygienic ; W. C. Rothenbuhler , therefore , could experiment on the inheritance of the habit and showed that the difference between hygienic and non-hygienic strains is due to their possession of different genes . |
| 17 | Thirdly , specific dictionaries are less reliable due to their inconsistency . |
| 18 | The principal effect would be due to their interaction with the heavy positively-charged matter in the atoms . |
| 19 | The present publishers , John Horbury & Associates , had quoted with an increase of only five per cent and they would be retained due to their reliability and flexibility . |
| 20 | Nodules are formed around the larvae mainly in the wall of the caecum and colon when , due to their size , they can travel no further within the arteries and subsequent rupture of these nodules releases the young adult parasites into the lumen of the intestine . |
| 21 | But the Wandjina have been the subject of special interest and speculation to anthropologists , ethnologists and certain writers who have linked them with visitors from space due to their resemblance to astronauts . |
| 22 | Many even of the larger societies were in temporary financial difficulties by the 1880s due to their willingness to pay long-term sick benefit as an effective old-age pension to aged members past regular work . |
| 23 | In so far as cost-of-funds matters lead to Japanese competitive advantage , it is more likely to be due to their willingness to take greater risks because of the low relative cost reported by Prowse ( 1986 ) and confirmed by Hodder ( 1986 ) , rather than a propensity to disregard DCF . |
| 24 | The United States took the lead in North East and East Asia due to their occupation of Japan , and to their support of Nationalist China : Britain led in South East Asia , the Indian Ocean and the Middle East . |
| 25 | It was accepted by the Highways and Planning departments that it was outside the scope of the methodology to progress the technical solutions to the point of implementation , which , in any event , could not have been undertaken by the FAOR team due to their disbandment after the final report had been rendered to the European Commission . |
| 26 | The Byzantine Empire , with its capital at Byzantium ( Istanbul ) , was strongly influenced by a number of contrasting elements : Christianity , which was the official religion ; the Oriental factor from further east and the Hellenic force provided by a largely Greek population in the capital and surrounding area who , due to their heredity and training , provided the best craftsmen in building and decoration . |
| 27 | Brackenbury was kindly , and had always shown them the courtesy due to their rank — and himself as their ally . |
| 28 | Experts believe that the discharge limits for these substances — many of which are included on the EEC 's ‘ black list ’ due to their toxicity , persistence and tendency to accumulate in organisms — should always be based on the best available control technology . |
| 29 | If the rotation is nonzero , the black hole bulges outward near its equator ( just as the earth or the sun bulge due to their rotation ) , and the faster it rotates , the more it bulges . |
| 30 | ( Talks instigated in April 1991 by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , Peter Brooke , brought together representatives of accredited Unionist and Nationalist parties , but excluded Sinn Fein , due to their unwillingness to denounce violence . ) |