Example sentences of "been due " in BNC.
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| 1 | As will be seen in Chapter 7 , this itself could only have been due to current Roman catholic social teaching on mixed marriage . |
| 2 | Some have been due to the aircraft getting into a new mode of spin , but others have been due to poor recovery techniques . |
| 3 | Some have been due to the aircraft getting into a new mode of spin , but others have been due to poor recovery techniques . |
| 4 | The Governor had been due to fly to London on 5 June to testify to the Commons foreign affairs committee on the condition of the colony following the Joint Declaration . |
| 5 | ‘ Everything I 've achieved has been due to what I learned there , ’ he said upon arriving at the Bernabeu . |
| 6 | A recent Bank of England report for analysts concluded : ‘ The sharper fall in unemployment than rise in employment has been due to the introduction of the Restart interviews and stricter availability-for-work tests . |
| 7 | The sums involved are enormous : 70 per cent of the total growth in the nation 's wealth since 1979 has been due to the rise in value of the housing stock . |
| 8 | This may have been due to a reluctance to suck more money out of a generous population , or to the usual delays in carrying out orders from Moscow . |
| 9 | Most of them had been due to efforts on the spot by units of the Red Army . |
| 10 | In each case the Canadian fiction of a supposedly identical sovereign was repudiated ; and in each case the continuance of a unity which had been due only to the former British connection was made a prior condition for even pretending to play the Canadian game . |
| 11 | The weakening of trade union power in the 1980s has been due to the interaction of government legislation , the rise in unemployment , and technological change . |
| 12 | In many cases , ordinary infections could be pinpointed , though some deaths were left unexplained and may have been due to EBHS . |
| 13 | The corporation will pay the estimated £250,000 costs of the action , which had been due for trial in January . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Nissan 's success in the UK hitherto has been due almost entirely to a totally independent company founded back in 1968 by an East European named Octav Botnar . |
| 16 | This may have been due partly to prudence . |
| 17 | ( Part of Arnold 's failure had been due to his poor delivery as few could actually hear his mumbled address . ) |
| 18 | The company , founded 15 years ago by Mr John Hayes , 34 , has claimed that its success has been due , in part , to its saleswomen . |
| 19 | The payment had originally been due on April 1 but the Toronto-based company had a grace period which expired on Thursday . |
| 20 | The lack of communication to others has only in part been due to our own ineptness at salesmanship ; it more likely lies in a fairly deeply embedded resistance to drama being anything other than a community art — not just a performing art , a community art . |
| 21 | Her success had been due to her own qualities ; and she had even received national recognition for some of her work . |
| 22 | ‘ It ca n't be denied that all this has taken a very long time to come about , but I think that , political wrangling aside , much of the delay has been due to genuine uncertainty about the tax implications of moving money around from one body to another . |
| 23 | Although John Wright had been due to send Hanns a letter about the technical requirements , it was actually the choreographer who wrote again in late September , suggesting simplification to avoid distracting the eye and adding ‘ You must design several feet around the back cloth , otherwise what you have designed will be cut off by the back legs and flies ’ . |
| 24 | Not only have investors miscalculated the willingness of British people to join organisations — which may have been due to a lack of appreciation of the different cultures on each side of the Atlantic , disguised by a common language — but the benefits on offer through these so-called affinity schemes can be obtained in this country through countless other sources . |
| 25 | Snowdonia ) the greatest losses have been due to afforestation ; in SW England and southern Wales , agricultural conversion has been the main cause , whereas in intermediate areas such as the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales , moorland has been lost to both . |
| 26 | The fact that they had contentious articles written with a fearless pungency seems to have been due to his joint editorship of both . |
| 27 | B. Most of the spoliation of our landscapes , coastlines and rivers has been due to the activities of business people during the last 100 years or so . |
| 28 | The demand for control of our landscapes , or environment , in order to preserve or create pleasant amenities has been due to the work of many people organised in groups . |
| 29 | It seemed that the doctor 's hunch had been right : all these problems had been due to Candida . |
| 30 | Uncle was much more the happy-go-lucky extrovert whereas Daddy was shy and reserved , but that may have been due in part , at least , to the burdens he carried . |