Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] due to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Primary and secondary prevention could in principle reduce the birth prevalence of congenital abnormalities by about 36% , from 65/1000 to 42/1000 , the greater part of the effect being due to secondary prevention . |
| 2 | The internal cause of the rhythm can be established in the normal manner — by making the intake of food and water , the posture , and environment of the volunteers constant through the 24 hours ( see Fig. 1.3 ) The rhythm that persists in these circumstances indicates that the effect of the body clock and the difference from the normal rhythm is due to external causes . |
| 3 | The cooling effect is due to large amounts of material being injected into the stratosphere , preventing the sun 's heat reaching the ground . |
| 4 | The condition is due to excessive secretion of the so-called ‘ growth hormone ’ by the pituitary gland … |
| 5 | Firms that avoided the worst excesses of the wheeling-dealing 1980s are making steady profits , and much of the loss was due to expensive restructuring at Shearson Lehman ( which spent $640m ) and Prudential-Bache ( $370m ) . |
| 6 | That is not to say that sexual partners of people with recurrent candidal infection should not be sought and examined — many cases of treatment-resistant thrush are due to repeated reinfection by an asymptomatic carrier . |
| 7 | The finding that the gastrin concentration is similar in the H pylori positive and negative uraemic patients , despite the much higher rate of ammonia production in the former , is further evidence against the hypergastrinaemia being due to bacterial ammonia production . |
| 8 | Instances can be cited where this appears not to be the case : where prominence is due to other than literary considerations . |
| 9 | That the control of gene activity that characterizes a particular cell type is due to specific factors in the cell acting on the promoter , comes from experiments in which the promoter elements are switched around . |
| 10 | According to Isaac et al. ( 1982 ) the northerly dip on the Rusey and other thrusts in this zone is due to postorogenic tilting , perhaps related to the injection of the granites . |
| 11 | Analysts said that the fall was due to expanded market listings rather than to the Shenzhen riot . |
| 12 | Where failure is due to inadequate foundations , and where neither the cause nor the effect can be eliminated , then underpinning will stabilise the building and restore its use and value . |
| 13 | Undoubtedly landslips occur , exacerbating soil erosion as the protective vegetation cover is impaired , but the extent of slope failure is due to climatic conditions , especially rainfall intensity , and the degree of terrace maintenance . |
| 14 | Much of this overexploitation is due to poor institutional control . |
| 15 | Loss of adhesion is due to incorrect preparation of the surface , or failure to use the correct undercoat . |
| 16 | He pretended to his family and friends that his doddering gait was due to old soccer injuries . |
| 17 | This positive shift in investment occurred not only in one or two large industries but for all industries — a fact which strengthens the view that the shift was due to regional policy rather than to other factors . |
| 18 | Many cases of severe mental handicap are due to medical conditions and the causes are better understood , but there are still difficult areas of definition . |
| 19 | This supports the hypothesis that adaptation is due to visual change . |
| 20 | Their conclusions may be formulated as follows : if A conducts mining operations on his own land in such a way as to cause water to flood his neighbour 's mine and the inundation is due to mere gravitation , A is not liable ( or at least he is not strictly liable under Rylands v. Fletcher ) , but if the flooding is due to A 's accumulation of the water ( e.g . |
| 21 | For example , British Telecom 's service has received heavy criticism since privatisation ; but how much of this failure to provide an ‘ adequate , service is due to post-privatisation behaviour as opposed to decisions ( perhaps inadequate investment ) made beforehand ? |
| 22 | Maturation means that the change in the behaviour is due to other changes in the animal , not to practice of the behaviour itself . |
| 23 | Lorenz 's point , however , that the adaptiveness of behaviour is due to inherited information , remains both valid and important . |
| 24 | They can be classified together with other kinds of language variation , such as styles or dialects , and any suggestion that one might be superior to the other is due to social prejudices . |
| 25 | In 1963 , Harris performed experiments in order to explore the adaptation of displaced vision ; to observe whether adaptation was due to visual , motor , or proprioceptive change . |
| 26 | In part , this shift of emphasis was due to political changes within the member states . |
| 27 | The health problems attributed to air pollution may in part be due to heavy smoking , Hughes adds . |
| 28 | It is , therefore , possible that some or all of the effects of damaging this area are due to disruptive effects on these other regions . |
| 29 | No doubt many , probably a majority , of the cases of non-gonococcal urethritis are due to infectious organisms , but there remains a hard core of cases from which no pathogenic germs can be isolated and for which it is just conceivable that antibiotic treatment may not be the best therapy . |
| 30 | For ambulance men and air-traffic controllers , those in ‘ supply-and-demand ’ situations , the demand is due to external factors and the workers have to respond ; their work load is not self-paced . |