Example sentences of "may be [adj] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these channels are not pursued , adoptees may be vulnerable to commercial offers of tracing at inflated charges . |
| 2 | You should report any vaginal discharge , pain after intercourse or abdominal pain , especially if accompanied by fever , as these symptoms may be due to pelvic infection which requires prompt treatment . |
| 3 | Most of this extension of English may be due to political or commercial reasons . |
| 4 | This may be due to parental management techniques but may also be due to the temperamental state of the child . |
| 5 | This may be due to financial restrictions on travel but also because of the prevalence today of nationwide state societies in even ‘ primitive ’ areas so that one can no longer study ‘ simple ’ societies in isolation . |
| 6 | With the exception of Romania ( where the extremely high maternal mortality caused by abortions may be due to illegal interruption of pregnancies as a consequence of abrupt termination of a previously free induced abortion system ) , maternal mortality due to obstetric causes is much higher than those caused by abortion . |
| 7 | The reason for the higher figure is not clear , but may be due to environmental variations . |
| 8 | Hungarians understand perfectly well that this may be due to internal Romanian reasons — the Romanian army had played some part in the initial repression in Timisoara , but since it joined the rebellion this fact has been conveniently forgotten . |
| 9 | But the dynamics of root length and root biomass production and mortality are similar within both forests ( R.L.H. and K.S.P. , manuscript in preparation ) and our results suggest that temporal differences in biomass ‘ turnover ’ may be due to temporal variation in root production , not in root mortality , in ecosystems like those we studied . |
| 10 | In some children this may be due to small functional bladder capacity , or to incomplete voiding when they do go to the lavatory ( Berg 1979 ; de Jonge 1973 ) . |
| 11 | Failure to act may be due to reactive inhibition which results from pain or fatigue and acts either as a barrier to repetition of the act or as a drive strengthening any activity associated with its reduction , such as rest ( Rivers 1964 pp 171–2 ) . |
| 12 | This may be due to competing demands for ( limited ) attention . |
| 13 | This effect which may be due to increased lipid peroxide levels in diabetes was reversed by insulin treatment ( Arbogast et al , 1982 ) . |
| 14 | The observed effect may be due to increased formation of such compounds as temperature increases . |
| 15 | This may be due to demographic distortion , low educational levels or to the impact of income subsidisation measures adopted by governments . |
| 16 | This may be due to inadequate learning but recent research suggests there is a severe disjunction between what is learned in formal science lessons and what is used in more social and affective situations . |
| 17 | This may be due to managerial incompetence , in which case the state ( having taken over the investment side of the financial institutions ' business ) could exercise its prerogative as ‘ trustee of the people 's savings ’ to force managerial changes . |
| 18 | This may be due to poor analysis — the analyst may not have understood fully the present system or the users ’ requirements . |
| 19 | Susan , Carol and Joan use the basilectal [ i ] / [ ] , while Stephen uses [ e : ] / [ o : ] — though this may be due to Eastern Caribbean ( St Vincentian ) influence . |
| 20 | O. opercularis is very similar to O. bairdi suggesting that any differences may be due to infraspecific variation . |
| 21 | Because a squint may be due to serious disease , its sudden appearance should always be taken seriously . |
| 22 | There was some variation between the practices , but only three fundholders reduced their rates , which may be due to normal year on year differences . |
| 23 | ( The low level activation by the parent plasmid alone may be due to cryptic weak Jun-binding sites in this DNA ) . |
| 24 | A diminished receptor expression may be due to reduced membrane insertion or increased degradation of the receptor in inhibitor treated cells . |
| 25 | Presently , we do not know the reason for this , but it may be due to different conformations of the fusion protein or to dimerization . |
| 26 | This may be due to different mutations within the APC gene causing variations from a total absence of gene product through to protein only partially reduced in function . |
| 27 | Respiratory signs may be due to larval damage in the lungs or to the anoxic effects of anaemia . |
| 28 | Familial aggregation may be due to shared genes as well as to shared environments — for example common customs , dietary habits , or exposures to viruses , toxins , or chemicals . |
| 29 | This distinction may be unclear to religious believers themselves , and consideration of this possibility suggests a fourth objection to the " Confessional " model for RE : it does not have to , but easily can , unless great care is taken , result in a narrowing of perspectives . |
| 30 | It forces the researcher to take seriously questions that may be relevant to other fields of enquiry , but which are not always so sharply focused . |