Example sentences of "largely due [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environmentalists point out , however , that the fall in emissions was largely due to the economic recession ; if the UK economy revives , consumption and emissions will increase as a result and further measures will have to be taken to meet the target , which is in any case widely seen as very modest . |
| 2 | I was concerned about the New Age Movement in the non-Christian world with its supposedly nice and healthy image largely due to the harmless and effective use of Aromatherapy and similar types of treatment . |
| 3 | The economic problems experienced in the 1980s are largely due to the destabilizing impact of the civil war in Mozambique . |
| 4 | Implicitly , exit costs exceeded costs of entry , largely due to the sunk costs of contacts , reputation and privileged access to information on market movements ( on the demand side ) and expertise ( on the cost side ) built up over time . |
| 5 | Government exhortations to decentralize are ignored , largely due to the poor state of infrastructure outside the capital . |
| 6 | However , while the extension of such major structural elements as the Highland Boundary Fault and the Southern Uplands Fault into Ireland is probable , their position can not be clearly defined , largely due to the extensive cover of Mesozoic and Cainozoic sedimentary rocks and plateau basalts . |
| 7 | There was also some conflict between Manchester and neighbouring groups , largely due to the vast difference in the scale and resourcing of projects there . |
| 8 | This failure was largely due to the doctrinaire approach to reform which other than striving to establish the democratic consensus , also sought to pay off old scores against the conservative right and build a sectarian leftist regime , isolating moderate support . |
| 9 | More than half of this came from city organisations , largely due to the good connections which members of the appeal committee had with such institutions . |
| 10 | When the results were further analysed , it was shown that this high incidence was largely due to the male homosexual population attending these clinics . |
| 11 | The oldest Classic has come in for its usual share of criticism in the past few weeks , largely due to the disappointing number of entries . |
| 12 | The Montanamar has a traditional Club atmosphere largely due to the fantastic pool and sun terrace which is a hive of activity during the day for all Club clients . |
| 13 | There had been little internal enthusiasm for this project and it was largely due to the personal sponsorship of a new technical director , Dr John Powell , that the company , which had 48 000 employees and a £500m turnover , decided to exploit Hounsfield 's work . |
| 14 | In 1940 , Mannheim concluded : ’ Where unemployment and crime both stand at a high water mark , it can safely be assumed that the latter is largely due to the former . ’ |
| 15 | The speed and relatively smooth manner in which the systems were developed , and the associated programming progressed , was largely due to the ready support and encouragement provided by both the Institute and the bureau . |
| 16 | Both Hanger and Leeman broke up heads with the Stanley skip being obliged to do so more often — largely due to the continuing accuracy of Harrington , the Brackley No 2 . |
| 17 | However , lately 49ers have improved considerably , largely due to the punchy vocal presence of Anne-Marie Smith , a black English girl with more balls than FIFA . |
| 18 | Only very rarely will a particular experience have such massive effects that it overrides all else , producing identical consequences for any child — at least , very rarely in human development , for it is likely that the effects of early experience seen in animal experiments are in most cases largely due to the enormous scale of the experiences involved . |
| 19 | Remarriage rates ( the number of marriages per thousand divorced persons ) have fallen continuously since the 1970s , largely due to the growing popularity of cohabitation between marriages . |
| 20 | In another case , Department of Employment data for the Western Isles of Scotland showed only 26.4 per cent of the population in employment , compared to 42 per cent for Scotland as a whole , and clearly this discrepancy is largely due to the definitional problems outlined above . |
| 21 | The Rover Group 's success , largely due to the high-tech Cowley-made Rover has contributed to heavy profits for its new parent , British Aerospace . |
| 22 | The Russian Revolution , and the revolutions in Central Europe at the end of the First World War , took place after military defeats ; and while in China the revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party was finally victorious in a civil war fought after the defeat of Japan in the Second World War , that victory was nevertheless largely due to the earlier defeat and retreat of the Chinese Nationalist armies in the war with Japan , and to the success of the Communist Party in organizing guerrilla warfare in the Japanese-occupied areas . |
| 23 | The second thing is largely due to the veterinary profession : the control of infectious disease by vaccination and by antibiotics . |
| 24 | The inability , so far , to properly confront issues of race is largely due to the huge number of white volunteers who simply find it too painful to accept that , because of their culture and upbringing , they tend to behave in a racist manner . |
| 25 | Does he accept that it is largely due to the regulatory framework that he has put in place that the activities of , for example , the Aylesbury Group have now been accepted for the investors compensation scheme ? |
| 26 | That we arrived back at base in such good shape was largely due to the magnificent efforts of our engineers Bob McSmythurs and Dave Parker who had to work hard to keep our ageing engines turning over . |
| 27 | This low coverage is , of course , largely due to the considerable distance of much of the population from the nearest registration office . |
| 28 | That it has achieved so much is largely due to the high regard in which Philip Hardman , chairman of the Faculty 's technical committee , Edwin Vidler , its secretary , and other members of the committee and its subcommittees are held by the Revenue departments . |
| 29 | However , it 's still an impressive-looking guitar , and that 's largely due to the stunning three-tone sunburst finish over the plain alder body . |