Example sentences of "likely to [be] due [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , other workers who studied the effect of gliclazide in diabetic subjects have felt that the beneficial effects of gliclazide on platelet function were likely to be due to its hypoglycaemic action rather than to any direct effect on haemostatic function ( Paton et al , 1982 b ) . |
| 2 | Such catastrophic events , he believes , are more likely to be due to the receipt of a considerable volume of rainfall in a short space of time on to soils which are already saturated , as occurs during the monsoon season . |
| 3 | A deficit of isolated teeth may indicate preferential loss of teeth , but in most cases it is more likely to be due to sampling error , by the failure to extract all the teeth from the pellets . |
| 4 | The failure of such experiments to demonstrate any effect of homoeopathic remedies is therefore just as likely to be due to inappropriate remedy selection for the model under study as to the possibility that the remedy really is inactive , or that homoeopathy is just a load of fantasy , wishful thinking and mumbo jumbo . |
| 5 | Every professional experimental researcher , in whatever field , has their own private list of fluky data , things that did n't happen quite in accord with expectations and are likely to be due to uncontrolled circumstances — such as the dirty test tube — rather than signalling a major discovery . |
| 6 | Changes in HNO 3 during late spring are also likely to be due to meridional mixing as the vortex begins to break up . |
| 7 | But because only a small part of the mutation load is likely to be due to alleles with major effects , this gives little error . |
| 8 | While this evidence does not necessarily imply that children will always cope with empirical and intentional explanations in the classroom , it does imply that failure to do so is likely to be due to factors other than children lacking an understanding of causality , of intentionality , or of the causal connectives . |
| 9 | But it 's much more likely to be due to human error . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If we are indeed a unique species then many of the behaviours which differentiate us from other animals are likely to be due to our genetic make-up rather than to cultural conditioning ; but the difficulty is to know just what these animal-human characteristics might be . |
| 12 | At the very least , the precaution of staining thin sections with Alizarin Red S and potassium ferricyanide ( Chapter 4 ) is required as a rapid and sensitive method of determining whether variation in CL intensity is likely to be due to fluctuations in Mn activator or to the presence of Fe as a quencher . |
| 13 | The reasons for failure are more likely to be due to people problems , which may show themselves by the lack of cooperation when the information system is being developed and a resistance to the changes that occur when the application is implemented . |
| 14 | Natural infection may have also contributed to the high seroprevalences in the IPV group 13–17 months after vaccination , although evidence from previous studies in poliomyelitis-free areas suggests that this finding is more likely to be due to brisk secondary responses in children who had been primed with OPV and who later received poliovirus antigen parenterally in the form of IPV . |
| 15 | This can result from underclaiming of tax reliefs against taxable income , but it is more likely to be due to tax being stopped on some income but not reclaimed . |