Example sentences of "may have been due [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In January 1644 , assessed at £1,000 , he pleaded for a mitigation ; his lack of money may have been due to personal extravagance at court as much as political troubles .
2 In the entire study population the associations , particularly with periodontal disease , were weak and may have been due to small biases or residual confounding .
3 The decline in gonorrhoea and other sexually transmitted diseases in the mid-1980s may have been due to safer sex practices after health education through the mass media and various other local activities .
4 However , Lawrence and his colleagues caution that the lack of appearance of ‘ new long-stay ’ patients in the hospitals may have been due to geographical drift of such patients to other hospitals .
5 If you had difficulty with this one , it may have been due to sexual stereotyping — i.
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