Example sentences of "[be] due to " in BNC.

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1 Stalling can also be due to trying to stretch the glide instead of closing the airbrakes , or stretching the glide after getting into a desperate undershoot position .
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 These could all be due to a number of different factors but they may be signs that someone is drinking too much .
4 The cause of the mental impairment is not important — it could be due to a handicap from birth or due to a condition such as Alzheimer 's Disease .
5 The lack of popularity with the Cuk topology may be due to its problems relating to the energy-coupling capacitor .
6 Success of the PC as an engineering tool must in part be due to its expansion bus and the fact that nearly every type of facility can be found on a PC card .
7 THE DECISION of Eamonn Barnes , the Irish Republic 's Director of Public Prosecutions , not to bring explosives charges against Patrick Ryan is believed to be due to the refusal of key witnesses to testify against him .
8 In addition , the differences we see between the rhythm measured normally and under constant routine conditions must be due to external causes ( rhythms in our life-style and environment ) .
9 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 .
10 The change in the figures appeared to be due to things like administrative convenience .
11 With real mortgage rates on extra borrowing normally between 4 and 5 per cent , it is quite plausible that about a quarter to a third of the value of housing equity — estimated at £830billion at end-1987 — could be due to deregulation .
12 Hungarians understand perfectly well that this may be due to internal Romanian reasons — the Romanian army had played some part in the initial repression in Timisoara , but since it joined the rebellion this fact has been conveniently forgotten .
13 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 ’ .
14 But the discharge may be refused or postponed if he has been guilty of certain offences or misconduct in connection with the bankruptcy , or if his assets are insufficient for the payment of 50p in the £ , unless this is shown not to be due to the debtor 's fault .
15 Its conclusion is that there are no mistakes whatever in it , and , if any apparent mistakes are found , this must be due to our interpretation and not to problems in the text .
16 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 .
17 Here he says that of all cases of hypertrophy of the external genitalia in women , physicians are most frequently consulted regarding the nymphae ( the inner labia ) and the clitoris , and that the causes of this condition , though not well understood , might be due to ‘ masturbation , excessive venery , or even the rubbing incident to a pruritis ’ .
18 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 .
19 Normally the financial goal was to reduce the existing debt , much of which would be due to building .
20 Can the death be due to academic greasy-pole climbing ?
21 Where there was success it was claimed to be due to local outlets and relevant local knowledge .
22 This may be due to demographic distortion , low educational levels or to the impact of income subsidisation measures adopted by governments .
23 Like many scientists , campaigners at Friends of the Earth in London ( including the author ) had assumed that the absence of strong evidence for forest decline in Britain might be due to a combination of climate ( moist conditions good for growing trees ) coupled with the possibility that magnesium in rain coming in from the sea might counteract leaching by acid rain .
24 Banging sounds emanating from the boiler may be due to a build-up of scale or to air being drawn into the system .
25 Indeed , the evolution of the communal behaviour of individual males may be due to strategies whereby co-operative action increases the chances of individuals mating with females .
26 If treatment is started with higher potencies e.g. LM 3 and above , then initial aggravations could also be due to a higher potency as with the centesimal potencies .
27 This need not be due to any moral shortcoming in the government .
28 He guessed that these effects might be due to intoxication by one of the compounds he was working with , and confirmed his idea by deliberate experiment .
29 Infection of the fallopian tubes must remain the most important cause of infertility today , although only a minority of cases will be due to gonorrhoea .
30 Obviously the symptoms may actually be due to an infection of the bladder — such infections are certainly more common among women who are sexually active than among those who are not — and the symptoms may be due , if not to a sexually transmitted disease , to other minor infections such as thrush ; but in many cases no bacteriological offender is found to account for the symptoms .
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