Example sentences of "be due to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | O. opercularis is very similar to O. bairdi suggesting that any differences may be due to infraspecific variation . |
| 4 | This may be due to parental management techniques but may also be due to the temperamental state of the child . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The possibility that the effects could be due to internal contamination by radioactive substances , a chemical , or some other exposure at work should be explored . |
| 9 | The increase in laminin concentrations in these patients could be due to increased synthesis by Ito cells . |
| 10 | The observed effect may be due to increased formation of such compounds as temperature increases . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Low overwinter fine root mortality , relative to growing season mortality , might be due to low maintenance respiration rates under cold soil temperatures , but it is unclear why roots produced in the 1989 growing season should continue to die at a slower rate during the 1990 growing season . |
| 16 | Because a squint may be due to serious disease , its sudden appearance should always be taken seriously . |
| 17 | There was some variation between the practices , but only three fundholders reduced their rates , which may be due to normal year on year differences . |
| 18 | Such increases in productivity might be due to new investment in existing industries , to speed-up and other kinds of changes on the shop-floor , or to a change in balance between low and high productivity sectors . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I noticed that Aunt Louise could thread her needle without too much trouble and even write a few letters , but I had heard that sight is often impaired by poor health , and prided myself that this improvement might be due to good food and peace of mind . |
| 21 | This may be due to demographic distortion , low educational levels or to the impact of income subsidisation measures adopted by governments . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The authors indicate therefore that excesses of prostatic cancer in industrial workforces are unlikely to be due to external radiation . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It could be due to defective plumbing , such as a leaking water pipe , gutters , downpipes , lead flashings , blocked wall cavities , driving rain ( where there are solid walls ) or even just condensation on cold surfaces . |
| 27 | If you do muscle toning exercises ( floorwork ) regularly but feel you are not improving in shape or strength it could be due to poor posture and technique . |
| 28 | These problems can be due to poor pot construction , or to the fact that the carbon track on the pot is reacting like an old-style carbon granule microphone , thus making the pot noisy when used . |
| 29 | This may be due to poor analysis — the analyst may not have understood fully the present system or the users ’ requirements . |
| 30 | Thirteen of the health effects would be due to thyroid cancer fatalities , assuming a 5 per cent fatality rate among a total number of expected thyroid cancers of 250 . |