Example sentences of "[vb pp] owing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clypeus , on which arise the cibarial dilator muscles , lies immediately anterior to the frons and the two sclerites are often fused owing to the obliteration of the frontoclypeal sulcus . |
| 2 | In early September all leave and non-essential travel by US military and government personnel was cancelled owing to the increased security threat as the negotiations on the bases approached . |
| 3 | The car was then marketed as ‘ Lagonda , designed under the supervision of W. O. Bentley ’ , but the flood of orders could not be met owing to the postwar shortage of steel . |
| 4 | First , the male — female bonding is weakened owing to the low frequency of male interactions with most of his female companions . |
| 5 | In Stone v. Taffe ( above ) a 50 per cent reduction was made owing to the claimant 's contributory negligence . |
| 6 | The ability of some species to undergo explosive increases in population had been largely ignored by exponents of the balance theory , but the significance of such phenomena had now been recognized owing to the writings of Thomas Malthus . |
| 7 | While short spacing plays a causal role in child mortality , it also ensues from a child death , as when breastfeeding and abstinence — the traditional spacing mechanisms — are abruptly halted owing to the death of a nursing infant , and conception occurs . |
| 8 | Before the invention and perfection of valves , horns in all keys were used owing to the narrow range of notes available on the natural horn . |
| 9 | The dioecious Xerospermum noronhianum ( ‘ X intermedium' , Sapindaceae ) in West Malaysia has a prolonged sequential development of flowers on each inflorescence as well as the sequential development of the inflorescences themselves , making a small number of flowers available at any one time but ensuring economy by not producing excess flowers within a short period ( these would not be pollinated owing to the low density of pollinators ) . |
| 10 | The services of tableware always included numerous saucers which were invariably made of white silver ; they were not gilded owing to the constituents of the sauces , such as lemon juice , which would tarnish the gilded metal . |
| 11 | Finally , the première had to be postponed owing to the sudden death of Empress Maria Theresia . |
| 12 | Elections to Trinidad and Tobago 's seven county councils and four municipal councils , constitutionally due in mid-September , were postponed owing to the confusion created by the coup attempt and the resulting curfew , which remained in place until Aug. 21 . |
| 13 | The conference of 1944 had to be postponed owing to the difficulties of travel , which were imposed in the spring and summer of that year when the Allied invasion forces used Britain as their base for the ‘ reentry ’ into France : it was finally held in December . |
| 14 | Russian President Boris Yeltsin visited China on Dec. 17-19 ( returning earlier than scheduled owing to the political situation in Russia — see p. 39223 ) . |
| 15 | Thus the image is enlarged owing to the finite size of the hole . |
| 16 | The Maldives government also claimed the right to host the fifth summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation ( SAARC ) instead of Sri Lanka , which as current chair had been due to do so in 1989 , but which had refused owing to the continuing presence in Sri Lanka of Indian troops [ see also p. 37357 ] . |
| 17 | Nozick , the most recent exponent of entitlement theory , does not discuss the precise requirements for a morally just acquisition , but asserts that since taking property into private ownership will not in general prejudice the interests of others ( he argues that their welfare will be increased owing to the greater efficiency of an economy based on private property ) , a taking will normally be morally legitimate . |
| 18 | The fresh pleasant taste is lost owing to the addition of meat stock , and the value of the soup from an economical point of view is also lost . |
| 19 | The worst scarcity was in coal , some forty per cent of French production having been lost owing to the German invasion of the Lille area , and the population shuddered at the approach of each winter . |
| 20 | 12–3–1892 The classes were not held owing to the amount of sickness in the district . |
| 21 | In the many instances of old warehouses , barns , etc. being converted to catering premises , even though external work may not be undertaken , planning permission is required owing to the change of use , and similarly with large private residences being converted into small country hotels . |