Example sentences of "due [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the hon. Gentleman , I regret the job losses at Clydesdale , which are due fundamentally to overcapacity in seamless tubes . |
| 2 | Apart from random fluctuations , due mostly to sampling and response errors ( the latter are very common in retrospective surveys ) , the relationship between infant mortality and birth order took reversed " J " , " U " or " J " shaped forms in most of the sampled communities . |
| 3 | It is unlikely that there is a transition between the minor forms and the major ones : indeed , there seem to be fundamental differences between the two ( Mabbutt , 1977 ) , including the fact that the minor forms , being due mainly to surface creep , have the coarser grains in the ridges , while the larger forms , due mostly to saltation , tend to have the finer material near the crests . |
| 4 | What had happened to us could not , I thought , have been due entirely to education — not even to the idea that girls develop more quickly than boys to a certain point and then slow down ; but as I still clung loyally to my little world where all clergymen were good , all solicitors honest , and all philosophers and experts different from ordinary people and unquestionably right , I struggled hard against any idea that I might still be wiser than Bertrand Russell in some respects . |
| 5 | These socio-economic differences in school-leaving age are not due entirely to IQ differences . |
| 6 | The relatedness of fetal mortality to birth intervals is widely discussed in the relevant literature but , due perhaps to lack of reliable data even from developed countries , without resolution . |
| 7 | However , while interest on a loan falls due regardless of ability to pay , dividends on redeemable preference shares can be paid only if there are sufficient distributable reserves available . |
| 8 | The ultimate weakening of this unique ascendancy was due not to lack of outstanding operatic composers to continue the tradition , though vernacular opera — sometimes consciously national and therefore to some extent anti-Italian — produced more and more gifted rivals . |
| 9 | It is possible that the different results for dichotic recognition of melodies obtained by Kimura ( 1964 ) and Gordon ( 1970 ) were due not to stimulus differences in the two experiments but to differences in the musical experience of the subjects employed . |
| 10 | In part this is due not to ignorance of the Act , but rather to the not unreasonable proposition that , since the Act prescribes no penalty for inserting such clauses , in cases of doubt it is better to have the clause present " in terrorem " , even if , in the ultimate event of legal proceedings , it is held invalid . |
| 11 | This failure is due not to cussedness but to ignorance of what Parliament intended by the obscure words of the legislation . |
| 12 | When the people from Furnace Road visit the new housing estates they feel hemmed in , for though they live in a tight little terrace with backyard behind , and rug-sized gardens in front , they are used to a spaciousness that is due not to planning but to the lack of plan . |
| 13 | Does not that nail the lie being put around that these circumstances are due not to world but to British recession ? |
| 14 | Although the centre declined by the second century A.D. , due largely to pirate raiding , the Roman remains are considerable . |
| 15 | This was due largely to rationalization programmes which attempted to dispose of the smaller and unprofitable public houses , though these were offset by a continuing commitment to improving the appearance and amenities of the larger remaining houses . |
| 16 | The study makes a link between fathers exposed to radiation and child cancers but suggests that this is not due directly to exposure to radiation but to hazards such as chemicals or other radioactive substances which are breathed in or swallowed . |
| 17 | Doris 's husband was due home on leave . |
| 18 | This may have been due partly to prudence . |
| 19 | I believe that it is due both to privatisation and to the benefits of restructuring , especially in the electricity industry . |
| 20 | The project has now been cancelled , despite continuing support from local politicians , due both to lack of funds and studies which showed that it would operate at only 25 per cent of capacity in winter , when electricity demand is highest . |
| 21 | The duty sergeant told me that Bert Shorrocks was still in the cells and due up in front of the beak that afternoon , but they had n't set eyes on my old man the whole weekend . |
| 22 | Roberts 's second row partner Steve Bainbridge was due back from holiday yesterday and is expected to play in next week 's National Division Two promotion showdown . |
| 23 | and the family was due back from church . |
| 24 | Mortimer , who was still a practising barrister , was due back in court in London the following day . |
| 25 | Meanwhile Talyllyn Railway No 4 Edward Thomas was due back in traffic in early July following ten-year boiler examination and red-brown livery for the rest of the season . |
| 26 | Its three illustrated volumes of 60 to 100 pages have sold 70 copies each , and a supplement of 200 newly discovered grips is due out at Christmas . |
| 27 | However , 90 per cent of the bands we sign attract us either with recently recorded product or with a record due out on release . |
| 28 | The train 's due out of Sion at nine tomorrow morning . |
| 29 | It is unlikely that there is a transition between the minor forms and the major ones : indeed , there seem to be fundamental differences between the two ( Mabbutt , 1977 ) , including the fact that the minor forms , being due mainly to surface creep , have the coarser grains in the ridges , while the larger forms , due mostly to saltation , tend to have the finer material near the crests . |
| 30 | It is quite normal of course to have a rapid weight loss of several pounds in the first week due mainly to water loss ( our bodies are 70 per cent water ) . |