Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some mistakes were due to genuine misunderstanding or fatigue ; others I am afraid can only be accounted for by criminal stupidity or irresponsibility . |
| 2 | Some experts suggested they were due to other industries nearby — like chemical factories and oil refineries . |
| 3 | He did not say much but agreed that he had had queer thoughts ad wondered whether they really were due to normal depression or the influence of the discovery . |
| 4 | His own crops , if a good yield , were due to splendid husbandry , while any other farmer 's were attributed to good land . |
| 5 | The therapist suggested that many of the problems that had arisen were due to poor communication between Pamela and her parents , and that this had led to a sense of mistrust on both sides . |
| 6 | In many cases there was no doubt at all : the glass had been in contact with some other solid and the cracks were due to simple scratching or scraping . |
| 7 | Can my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that many of the problems that British Rail experienced on the east coast line at the end of last year were due to criminal vandalism affecting the signalling system , particularly in Scotland and the north of England ? |
| 8 | The losses in 1992 were due to non-recurrent factors , such as its share of then-subsidiary CCMC 's losses , losses on disposal of assets during restructuring and exceptional provisions for amortisation of goodwill . |
| 9 | A total of 316 of the deaths in the 1586 men were due to cardiovascular disease , 235 being certified as due to ischaemic heart disease , 49 to stroke , and 32 to other circulatory diseases . |
| 10 | The third measles trial reported that of the 12 deaths ( 10 in controls , two in those given vitamin A ) , 10 were due to respiratory disease . |
| 11 | As to the recent faults the committee concluded that they were due to careless handling of the cable during laying , to poor design and to bad practices in overall manufacture . |
| 12 | Similarly , but on a lesser scale — although still very big — the Californian earthquakes of San Francisco and Owens Valley were due to crustal movement and not to volcanoes . |
| 13 | There may have been a grain of truth in this , and indeed the symptoms suffered by many people were real enough , but it was question-begging in the extreme to say that the states of mind induced were due to evil forces . |
| 14 | In both Alcoa and United Shoe the courts acknowledged that the defendants had built their market shares by legal means , but none the less found them guilty because their respective dominant positions were due to conscious choice . |
| 15 | On this basis , geologists can be confident that the two phases of accelerated sea-level rise were due to dramatic additions of meltwater to the oceans from melting northern hemisphere ice sheets . |
| 16 | ‘ Of the 15 companies in which offences were attributable to organizational defects , nine made significant changes designed to reduce the likelihood of recidivism . |
| 17 | The children were followed up some four years later at secondary schools so that the possibility could be considered that such differences were attributable to initial differences in their ability and adjustment rather than being caused by the schools ( Rutter et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 18 | But the dealers were alert to new traces , if only because a single coin — the bronze ears of barley on the local currency of Rubi , with Demeter 's garlanded head on the obverse — might lead , like a broken twig , a crackle of a dry leaf , to greater treasure ; the boys could earn a lustrous fizzy drink from the new carbonator , or a cigarette in the cafe , with a promise to show the location of the trivial find . |
| 19 | While some filmmakers were making expensive films positioned in a European never-never-land , believing that placeless films were preferable to British films , the documentarists and , to some extent , the makers of quota pictures , were dealing with a more everyday level of life . |
| 20 | Seurat and his colleagues argued that Pointillism was a scientifically modern style , while the Symbolists asserted that spiritual values were preferable to artistic programmes of perception . |
| 21 | By the late 1970s the state sector had become not only a harbour of inefficiency , as in many ‘ developed ’ countries , but also a greenhouse of the hybrid values emerging in Africa many of which were inimical to efficient methods of low-cost production . |
| 22 | These services were taking much-needed capital away from industrial investment and they were , some claimed , creating attitudes and styles of living that were inimical to hard work and increased productivity — a claim discussed in the following chapter . |
| 23 | Manchu features were incapable of displaying emotions which were understandable to other humans , which was why they accompanied normal conversation with a series of gestures similar to mime in ballet . |
| 24 | That the acts were not a new departure is argued by those who draw attention to the pre-existing illegality of trade unions under the law of conspiracy and under around forty statutes , a number of which were specific to particular trades . |
| 25 | Throughout the greater part of the nineteenth century , most people were averse to official intervention in social and family affairs and the Victorian age can be seen as an era in which individualism was the leading social ethic . |
| 26 | In all these appointments Richard was choosing men who were acceptable to Yorkist opinion and probably to the prince himself . |
| 27 | In all these appointments Richard was choosing men who were acceptable to Yorkist opinion and probably to the prince himself . |
| 28 | Larger groups were prone to intense factionalism . |
| 29 | The IAEA scientists found that some medical equipment , and certain techniques of medical examination ( such as those used to test for thyroid problems ) , were unfamiliar to Soviet doctors , and tended to produce different results depending on who used them . |
| 30 | The third and most sophisticated role in initiating cultural ideas comprised those intellectuals who were faithful to Bolshevik goals . |