Example sentences of "be due to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The calming and relaxing effect of electro-acupuncture using 10 Hz through particular acupuncture points may be due to a similar reason . |
| 2 | Nocturnal enuresis can be due to a urinary tract infection , or other medical conditions . |
| 3 | I want you to look for anything unusual — anything that could be due to a black hole . |
| 4 | A CO band above 1900 cm -1 is therefore almost certainly due to a terminal CO ; a band below this frequency may be due to a bridging ligand , but it could also be ascribed to a terminal ligand with some unusually severe reduction of the CO bond strength through back-bonding . |
| 5 | This general type of bias may be due to a selective memory search for information favouring a positive personal outcome . |
| 6 | Some patients suffering dementia as a consequence of Parkinson 's disease or Down 's syndrome show nerve damage virtually identical to that in Alzheimer 's patients : in contrast , dementia due to Huntington 's disease seems to be due to a specific deterioration of different nerve cells . |
| 7 | This is well known for oxygen , and can be due to a specific cellular orientation , and a spatial orientation of connective tissue of glycoproteins , collagen and other biopolymers . |
| 8 | The survival of such evidence may be due to a wide range of factors which need have little to do with contemporary activities ; at the time of occupation the possible use of raised floors may affect survival . |
| 9 | Granulomas can be due to a wide variety of causes but other investigations were negative and there has been no evidence of tuberculosis or other infecton on follow-up . |
| 10 | Alternatively the decrease might be due to a progressive increase in vortex pinning in the superfluid as the neutron star slows down and cools . |
| 11 | This finding may be due to a reduced level of arachidonic acid in platelet membrane phospholipids of diabetic subjects as described by Jones et al ( 1983 ) . |
| 12 | This is , of course , because , in the absence of aggregate demand shocks , any unexpectedly high price must be due to a relative demand shock . |
| 13 | This may be due to a lesser degree of familiarity with the larger units which are 1,000 times as large as the smaller units with which the pupils are likely to have more practical experience . |
| 14 | The hope is that addictive disease of all kinds may be found to be due to a common biochemical dysfunction and that it can therefore be corrected . |
| 15 | In a very few cases , serious mental disorders similar to schizophrenia or mania have been reported that may be due to a direct effect of HIV on the brain . |
| 16 | This could itself be due to a direct damaging or inhibitory effect on antral G cells or a lack of substances present in beer and wine that stimulate gastrin release . |
| 17 | The cause of the high pepsinogen C concentrations in patients on omeprazole treatment is unknown , but it may be due to a direct effect of omeprazole on the gastric mucosa to omeprazole induced hypergastrinaemia or bacterial overgrowth of the stomach because of acid inhibition . |
| 18 | Most cases of pathological phimosis result from balanitis xerotica obliterans , while the remainder may be due to a different , distinct fibrotic disease . |
| 19 | But being different can be due to a whole range of factors . |
| 20 | The difference turns out , however , to be due to a contextual clue . |
| 21 | The diagnosis was complicated as four days earlier a 14 year old boy from the same school had collapsed and died after a short illness of severe diarrhoea , which proved to be due to a fatal Salmonella enteritidis infection . |
| 22 | Even without him playing the improvement in the defence must be due to a large degree to his presence . |
| 23 | I mean any visit to a gesopholar laboratory will persuade you some very , very striking differences , you know , like having four wings instead of two , or even four legs instead of six I 've had in the lab — you know , really quite striking differences can be due to a single Mendelising gene , no problem about that . |
| 24 | The reason why a rational person would draw this inference is that an unexpectedly high price can be due to a positive aggregate demand shock or a positive relative demand shock , and it can of course arise from a combination of the two . |
| 25 | Conversely , a negative provocation test suggests that the patient 's pain is not due to the presence of irritant duodenal juice in the stomach , but could be associated with abnormal motility associated with DGR , or might be due to an unrelated cause . |
| 26 | On the other hand it is possible thatsuch a diagnostic suspicion bias accounts for the modest increase in risk among current users but not former users of the pill , although previous work has suggested that this pattern of risk may be due to an accelerating effect of the pill . |