Example sentences of "has [be] due " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everything I 've achieved has been due to what I learned there , ’ he said upon arriving at the Bernabeu . |
| 2 | A recent Bank of England report for analysts concluded : ‘ The sharper fall in unemployment than rise in employment has been due to the introduction of the Restart interviews and stricter availability-for-work tests . |
| 3 | The sums involved are enormous : 70 per cent of the total growth in the nation 's wealth since 1979 has been due to the rise in value of the housing stock . |
| 4 | The weakening of trade union power in the 1980s has been due to the interaction of government legislation , the rise in unemployment , and technological change . |
| 5 | Nissan 's success in the UK hitherto has been due almost entirely to a totally independent company founded back in 1968 by an East European named Octav Botnar . |
| 6 | The company , founded 15 years ago by Mr John Hayes , 34 , has claimed that its success has been due , in part , to its saleswomen . |
| 7 | ‘ It ca n't be denied that all this has taken a very long time to come about , but I think that , political wrangling aside , much of the delay has been due to genuine uncertainty about the tax implications of moving money around from one body to another . |
| 8 | B. Most of the spoliation of our landscapes , coastlines and rivers has been due to the activities of business people during the last 100 years or so . |
| 9 | The demand for control of our landscapes , or environment , in order to preserve or create pleasant amenities has been due to the work of many people organised in groups . |
| 10 | No doubt the neglect has been due to the absence of knowledge in dealing with these matters , and the ignorance of the right methods and necessary articles for use … |
| 11 | The really phenomenal success of these materials during the last thirty years or so has been due to the combination of cheap and rapid mass-production with adequate toughness — added of course to chemical inertness , lightweight and bright and cheerful , not to say garish , colours . |
| 12 | ‘ I would say that England 's recent success has been due , in no small way , to having experience on the side . |
| 13 | What part of any contraction in the demand for elderly workers has been caused by state action over the setting of pension eligibility terms , and what part has been due to the autonomous decisions of employers , must for the moment remain an open question . |
| 14 | In part this has been due to a failure to look at the right parts of the higher order visual cortex , using the right stimuli . |
| 15 | This has been a source of satisfaction to the Computer Group , but has been due in part to the assistance we have received from many people . |
| 16 | This has been due to the lack of understanding of the origins of this pottery . |
| 17 | In part this has been due to budget reformers making overenthusiastic claims for overelaborate systems . |
| 18 | This means that most of the recent increase in the proportion of non-manual employment in the employed population has been due to the expansion of service industries and not due to a rise in the number of government employees . |
| 19 | This has been due largely to the growth of council housing and perhaps to the improvement grants policy of successive governments particularly since 1969 . |
| 20 | Does he agree that much of our country 's undoubted export success has been due to competitive premium Export Credits Guarantee Department rates ? |
| 21 | I understand that the closure of the colliery in question has been due to heavy losses resulting from continued failure to meet operating targets . |
| 22 | This failure has been due , at least in part , to historians being unaware of the documentation which survives in the hands of the different police forces . |
| 23 | The thesis that the shock was initially due to a lack of demand has perhaps had less acceptance than a supply- side line of explanation , eg that high unemployment has been due to excessive wage levels . |
| 24 | As the Principal said : ‘ Napier 's success has been due to its staff . |
| 25 | Well all I can say is that , erm Sir Simon was being extremely modest when he said that the development of this company er , has been due er , entirely to the executive directors . |
| 26 | " If we have been unable to give Spain greater well-being " , he said , " let it be very clear that this has been due to foreign incomprehension . " |
| 27 | Without doubt a great deal of my enjoyable working life has been due in part to being lucky enough to work with . |
| 28 | The major portion of the consumption of energy over the past 100 years has been due to the industrialisation of what is now called the Developed World . |
| 29 | This has been due to agriculture and forestry activities , which must now be considered . |
| 30 | The delay has been due mainly to the need to be absolutely certain about the integrity of the flight control system software before the aircraft takes to the air . |