Example sentences of "[noun] could be due to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A FULL inquiry has begun into remarks by a senior Strathclyde Region official that the high numbers of black and Asian children in special schools could be due to genetic or nutritional factors . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Thus , Jones and Goethals ( 1971 ) , reviewing this and similar studies , argue that the primacy effect could be due to one of three possible causal processes : attention decrement , discounting , and assimilation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Lower seroconversion rates in 9-month-olds than in 6-month-olds could be due to a higher incidence of infections with non-polio enteroviruses or other enteric pathogens , which are known to interfere with antibody responses to OPV . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The increase in laminin concentrations in these patients could be due to increased synthesis by Ito cells . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Some of the major differences could be due to this . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Because the numbers are small and the results could be due to chance , studies of larger numbers of children are needed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I had recently read that in America , research had suggested that Neon Tetra Disease could be due to a virus of the liver . |
| 17 | If it was considered that events could be due to suffocation covert video surveillance was considered to be an appropriate option . |
| 18 | However , the analyst should be aware that variances between the model and a particular user 's view could be due to the narrow perception of that user . |