Example sentences of "[modal v] have been due to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of this success must have been due to the Dottridges ' persuasive advertising : |
| 2 | The situation in ( i ) must have been due to the act or default of the ‘ other person . ’ |
| 3 | At the time when rent levels were falling , some less profitable land also went out of cultivation ( although the extent of this is hard to measure ) , so it is clear that the fall in rents must have been due to a shortage of potential tenants rather than to a greater supply of land , which might have resulted from the clearance of forest or the reclamation of fenland . |
| 4 | Modern medical thinking suggests this might have been due to what is commonly known as a ‘ bunch of grapes pregnancy ’ . |
| 5 | Her inner life or ‘ subjective feelings ‘ are irrelevant , although not non-existent ( indeed her inattention might have been due to severe toothache ) . |
| 6 | and Sobel and Collett to find an effect of vertical disparities might have been due to the relatively small angular extents ( 8–11° and 30° ) of the stereoscopic surfaces used in their experiments . |
| 7 | The deaths of patients who showed signs of decompensated liver disease before treatment might have been due to spontaneous progression of the disease and can not be linked unequivocally to the interferon treatment . |
| 8 | In the deductive marking experiment there was not a conflict of beliefs , so the five-year-olds ' performance might have been due to the fact that the context did not highlight the need for a deductive explanation . |
| 9 | Gordon suggested that the failure to find a left ear superiority for melodies , in contrast to Kimura 's ( 1964 ) results , might have been due to differences in the rhythm and/or pitch of the stimuli employed by himself and by Kimura . |
| 10 | This might have been due to the support from the student management system . |
| 11 | The woman next to Mr pugh seemed to be in tears , but that might have been due to the compost . |
| 12 | This result could have been due to the inclusion of mostly elderly patients in the control group who may have been harbouring M tuberculosis from a primary asymptomatic tuberculous infection , which was common in their youth . |
| 13 | For instance the increase could have been due to the taste of the methylanthranilate itself rather than the learned association of pecking and tasting . |
| 14 | This may have been due to a reluctance to suck more money out of a generous population , or to the usual delays in carrying out orders from Moscow . |
| 15 | In many cases , ordinary infections could be pinpointed , though some deaths were left unexplained and may have been due to EBHS . |
| 16 | Not only have investors miscalculated the willingness of British people to join organisations — which may have been due to a lack of appreciation of the different cultures on each side of the Atlantic , disguised by a common language — but the benefits on offer through these so-called affinity schemes can be obtained in this country through countless other sources . |
| 17 | This may have been due to an accident , but two Ju88s of 5/LG 1 were badly damaged over Malta , presumably hit by A.A. fire and force-landed at Catania on their return . |
| 18 | This rather unusual development may have been due to the influence of Hu Yaobang in the Ministry of Propaganda or to a younger generation of journalists who demanded more honesty in their reporting . |
| 19 | The fungal growth may have been due to the water quality being affected by the chemicals , or it could have set in where damage had occurred as a result of the flicking . |
| 20 | However , Lawrence and his colleagues caution that the lack of appearance of ‘ new long-stay ’ patients in the hospitals may have been due to geographical drift of such patients to other hospitals . |
| 21 | This may have been due to the tendency of the former to attract in young people , leading to net gains by migration among 15–24-year-olds ( Chapter 10 ) . |
| 22 | To some extent this may have been due to the Stanleys ' own efforts , since they had the firmer territorial base in the region , but it must also reflect the king 's wishes . |
| 23 | Their resilience and in part fortuitous revival may have been due to the slightly more permissive policies of the Popular Front government in Paris — thousands of political prisoners were released although thousands more remained in gaol — but much more seems to have been the result of the ability to rebuild an organization from the bottom up even though the advice and instructions they received from international communism meant acquiescence in policies which did not give them pre-eminent appeal as a revolutionary party . |
| 24 | This may have been due to the support of Steel-Maitland who was a founder member before he became Party Chairman and who later served on its committee on mental health . |
| 25 | If you had difficulty with this one , it may have been due to sexual stereotyping — i. |
| 26 | The demise of the Civil Service Department may have been due to a feeling by ministers that it was too conscious of the interests of staff . |
| 27 | This may have been due to the long delays in the submission and execution of spot trades caused by the overloading of the NYSE order routing system . |
| 28 | In the entire study population the associations , particularly with periodontal disease , were weak and may have been due to small biases or residual confounding . |
| 29 | The decline in gonorrhoea and other sexually transmitted diseases in the mid-1980s may have been due to safer sex practices after health education through the mass media and various other local activities . |
| 30 | This may have been due to the fact that preparations for hosting the 1966 World Cup Finals were under way and there were fears that , as the English game came under greater international scrutiny , football hooliganism could damage the nation 's prestige . |