Example sentences of "be due to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cause of this is unclear but it could be due to the trophic effect of hypergastrinaemia on the oxyntic mucosa , an effect of smoking , an inherited characteristic , or a combination of these . |
| 2 | This must be due to the current lack of understanding of the design process and the risks associated with developing such a system . |
| 3 | It could be due to the mild weather that occurred in the autumn when the lambs were conceived , he said . |
| 4 | The higher K m and lower Hill coefficient obtained with this assay may be due to the hydrophobic nature of this dye and its interaction with the phospholipids and/or channel . |
| 5 | O. opercularis can be distinguished from O. bairdi by the disk bearing only low granules , the shape of the oral shield which is more rounded , the shape of the proximal oral papillae which are more rounded than those of O. bairdi , finally the tentacle pore is smaller — although this may be due to the small size of the specimen . |
| 6 | This may be due to the poor quality of the preaching or it may be due to the fact that some Christians have their own interpretation of the dominical saying , ‘ Except ye be as little children ye can not enter the kingdom of heaven ’ . |
| 7 | The success of this greatly appreciated service must in a great measure be due to the pleasant and most helpful personality of the librarian . |
| 8 | However , the analyst should be aware that variances between the model and a particular user 's view could be due to the narrow perception of that user . |
| 9 | Of course , they may be due to the stochastic component of the process and therefore be unpredictable , or they may be due to the systematic or predictable component . |
| 10 | Of course , they may be due to the stochastic component of the process and therefore be unpredictable , or they may be due to the systematic or predictable component . |
| 11 | This was considered to be due to the limited involvement of the officers and the clerical assistant in certain parts of the analysis . |
| 12 | This may be due to the economic climate , but also the harsh reality of trying to justify fee increases to clients whose perception of the audit service has not changed . |
| 13 | While this seems to be reading more into Quinn 's analysis than is justified , work by Mintzberg ( 1978 ) , Miller and Friesen ( 1982 ) , and Pettigrew ( 1985a , 1985b ) , supports the notion of incrementalism , but in a form of uneven development with long-term gradual change punctuated by bursts of ‘ revolutionary ’ change which may be due to the economic environment , management change or other factors usually , but not necessarily , associated with commercial crisis . |
| 14 | This may be due to parental management techniques but may also be due to the temperamental state of the child . |
| 15 | This is believed to be due to the complex organization of their centre-surround mechanisms . |
| 16 | That it did not do so may in part be due to the late H.H. Mayberry , from Marshall County , Tennessee , who in the early 1880s paid a stranger from Nova Scotia $36 ( about $800 in today 's money ) for four of the goats on the strength of their ‘ strange fits or fainting spells , the like of which had never been seen before ’ . |
| 17 | This may be due to the complete absence of functional Ea and/or non-polymorphism of the Ea gene product . |
| 18 | The youngest and most significant heating event is taken to be due to the crustal stretching in the mid Jurassic . |
| 19 | For this reason , the low value of the correlation coefficient does not necessarily mean the lack of relationship between variables ; it may be due to the non-linear nature of the relationship . |
| 20 | Such views may be due to the sporadic publication of relevant data , particularly that of time series , for statistically more developed countries . |
| 21 | This could be due to the notorious solubility problems with halofantrine which will be especially prominent in in-vitro systems with drug in solution . |
| 22 | The different results from the two studies may be due to the diurnal variation in albumin excretion rate or to different methods being used for estimating urinary albumin . |
| 23 | Some portion of these costs must be due to the particular sort of culture — surprisingly uniform , across these very different companies — that our sample firms sought to induce : a high participative one . |
| 24 | So in no case have the neutrons been definitely proved to be due to the random motion of deuterium associated with a temperature of the order of five million degrees . |
| 25 | A lower contact-rate may say nothing about the quality or duration of the contact , but may be due to the physical separation from kin caused by the relatively greater mobility of the middle class . |
| 26 | The results of the transplantation experiment may only be due to the transplanted salmon following the lead of the native salmon . |
| 27 | This might be due to the accompanying reduction in synthesis of the 4 series leukotrienes . |
| 28 | These differences may be due to the relative increase in mitochondrial genomes in the mutant strain ( mtDNA/nuclear DNA 1.5 compared with the wild-type strain ) . |
| 29 | Two previous experimental studies have shown an opposite effect , which may be due to the different species or sex of animals used and the methods of assessing cellular proliferation ( stathmokinetic technique v labelling index using tritiated thymidine ) . |
| 30 | Our present results show that healing of duodenal ulcers with a regime that also eradicates H pylori produces a fall in basal acid secretion that may be due to the concomitant fall in basal plasma gastrin concentration . |