Example sentences of "to be due to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impasse in the latest round of negotiations was widely believed to be due to continued French opposition to US proposals for a cut in the volume of EC-subsidised cereal exports . |
| 2 | This layer of attenuated velocity is known as the low velocity zone and the reduction in seismic wave velocities is considered to be due to partial melting in this region of the mantle . |
| 3 | The authors indicate therefore that excesses of prostatic cancer in industrial workforces are unlikely to be due to external radiation . |
| 4 | If the relationship is real the mechanisms are far from clear , except that the effect is unlikely to be due to external radiation ; the possibility that it could be due to internal contamination by radioactive substances or some other exposure at work should be pursued . |
| 5 | Finally , it is possible , where the stony surface lies above a weathered soil profile , for the whole thing to be due to differential weathering , the stones in the lower part of the profile being weathered more rapidly than those at the surface due to the greater likelihood of a damp environment below . |
| 6 | Orthega and Paschero , however , consider all diseases to be due to environmental causes and miss out on the inherited factors present in the cause of the disease . |
| 7 | Pregnancy is often associated with two definite gall bladder abnormalities — namely , reduced gallbadder contractility which is believed to be due to raised progesterone concentrations , and the development of biliary sludge . |
| 8 | He presented a detailed theoretical analysis of skilled movement , showing that the sequencing of actions , the serial order of behaviour , could not be due to feedback stimuli from one movement triggering the next , as S-R theory argued , but had to be due to central programming of the sequence . |
| 9 | These findings are unlikely to be due to delayed antibody responses in the OPV group , since peak antibody concentrations are usually attained within 2–4 weeks after vaccination . |
| 10 | Every professional experimental researcher , in whatever field , has their own private list of fluky data , things that did n't happen quite in accord with expectations and are likely to be due to uncontrolled circumstances — such as the dirty test tube — rather than signalling a major discovery . |
| 11 | Changes in HNO 3 during late spring are also likely to be due to meridional mixing as the vortex begins to break up . |
| 12 | The patients were referred to the gastroenterology unit of the Adelaide Children 's Hospital for evaluation of symptoms thought to be due to gastro-oesophageal reflux or a feeding disorder . |
| 13 | Two of the longitudinal studies cited showed a temporal decline in toxoplasma seroprevalence ; this was suggested to be due to improved standards of food storage . |
| 14 | Of course , critical analysis might show this to be due to naive misapprehension . |
| 15 | Where there was success it was claimed to be due to local outlets and relevant local knowledge . |
| 16 | A happy thought is that a gain of 2–3 lb ( 1 kg ) in a day is extremely unlikely to be due to fat alone . |
| 17 | As Eyre ( 1987 ) reports , there is considerable variation of opinion relating to rates of deforestation ; FAO ( 1985 ) , for example , quote a figure of 3.0 per cent per year which is assumed to be due to commercial logging . |
| 18 | The heterogeneity between embryos is influenced by the asynchrony of fertilization ( 8 ) while the variation in cell cycle stage within an embryo appears to be due to intrinsic and heritable differences in the blastomeres ( 16 ) . |
| 19 | The high rates of diagnosis of schizophrenia among black people were at one time thought to be due to widespread misdiagnosis of bizarre behaviour and transient hallucinatory experiences by white psychiatrists unfamiliar with normal Afro-Caribbean cultural expressions of severe distress . |
| 20 | Common cavity episodes have been described and evaluated in detail elsewhere , and have been shown by fluoroscopy to be due to oesophageal body distention with gas . |
| 21 | If the association between paternal preconceptual exposure to radiation and childhood leukaemia we found is not a chance finding , the effect is unlikely to be due to paternal exposure to the forms of external penetrating ionising radiation measured by monitoring devices . |
| 22 | The failure of such experiments to demonstrate any effect of homoeopathic remedies is therefore just as likely to be due to inappropriate remedy selection for the model under study as to the possibility that the remedy really is inactive , or that homoeopathy is just a load of fantasy , wishful thinking and mumbo jumbo . |
| 23 | The anomalous heat is thought to be due to solar energy , which penetrates the surface ice in spring and warms the depths . |
| 24 | But it 's much more likely to be due to human error . |
| 25 | These strains are prone to wasting away , which has been assumed to be due to constitutional weakness . |
| 26 | Natural infection may have also contributed to the high seroprevalences in the IPV group 13–17 months after vaccination , although evidence from previous studies in poliomyelitis-free areas suggests that this finding is more likely to be due to brisk secondary responses in children who had been primed with OPV and who later received poliovirus antigen parenterally in the form of IPV . |
| 27 | The differences in organisation are said to be due to innate ability , and the kind of experience received . |
| 28 | Therefore , the day-by-day changes in the timing of rhythms seen in the aged do not appear to be due to day-by-day irregularities of habits , and this suggests an internal cause due to the body clock . |