Example sentences of "due [prep] the great " in BNC.

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1 At the same time there had grown up , mainly during the twelfth century , the extension of the authority of the royal house of France , the dynasty of Capet , through the insistence that the homage due from the great feudatories to their king should be ‘ liege ’ .
2 Due to the great variety of approaches for organizing innovative projects , it is difficult to classify them .
3 The city was fairly silent , quieter than usual due to the great tournament at Smithfield .
4 Due to the greater degree of nationalisation which had taken place throughout Western Europe since the end of the war , it was discovered , in 1960 , that approximately forty per cent of the labour force was employed by the various governments .
5 Part of the decline in abortion at this age is due to the greater number of wanted pregnancies from remarried women .
6 The respiratory depressant effect of morphine is well known and may be heightened in neonates due to the greater proportion of Mu-2 ( respiratory depression ) opioid receptor sites in early neonatal life only to babies receiving ventilatory support , however , the effects of respiratory depression can be minimised .
7 Not surprisingly , execution time increases with larger window sizes in a fairly linear fashion , due to the greater number of word positions to consider .
8 Over a number of sessions the proportion of subjects showing a right-ear preference for verbal stimuli tends to increase due to the greater probability of change among subjects showing an initial left ear advantage ( Blumstein , Goodglass and Tartter , 1975 ; Shankweiler and Studdert-Kennedy , 1975 ) .
9 Presumably this might happen due to the greater amount of material to be eroded before a cut off could occur .
10 Finally , it is possible , where the stony surface lies above a weathered soil profile , for the whole thing to be due to differential weathering , the stones in the lower part of the profile being weathered more rapidly than those at the surface due to the greater likelihood of a damp environment below .
11 Due to the greater bombardment on the slope AB more sand grains will be ejected from this area : these will tend to land again at a distance of one characteristic grain path downwind and thus lead to increased accumulation in that area .
12 This may be due to the greater paradigmatic influence of geophysical research on the other earth sciences .
13 The small crystals melt about 30 K lower than the large ones due to the greater contribution from the interfacial free energy in the smaller crystallites , i.e. there is an excess of free energy associated with the disordered chains emerging from the ends of ordered crystallites and this is relatively greater for the small crystallites , resulting in lower melting temperatures .
14 The difference in survival between patients diagnosed during the 1970s and 1980s was due to the greater number of patients with colonic disease diagnosed during the 1980s .
15 The change was due to the greater proportion of patients with colonic disease , which in this study had a worse prognosis .
16 They suggest that the difference , present at puberty and persisting beyond the menopause , is due to the greater physical activity imposed on women of the earlier period .
17 This is partly due to the greater sophistication of the instruments , but it is also due to the variety of contracts brought about by the range of exercise prices , which adds an extra dimension to contract specification .
18 This development is undoubtedly due to the greater accessibility that personal computers have brought to computing in terms of cost , ease of use and reduced dependence on others .
19 But , for such an attribute , the difference could also be due to the greater psychological affinity between Is .
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