Example sentences of "[is] [adv] due to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This message sounds disastrous , but is only due to incorrect harddisk settings . |
| 2 | This again is entirely due to excess muscle tension and , with the help of a teacher , the pupil can learn to let go of the muscles that are causing the problem . |
| 3 | If deer have a tough life it is entirely due to human history , so man has a moral obligation to look after their well-being . |
| 4 | The lack of correlation between turnover of enzyme pools and secretion is perhaps due to interindividual variation in enzyme pool sizes . |
| 5 | A good many women have never experienced orgasm at all , although this is generally due to personal impediment or lack of expertise and consideration on their partner 's part . |
| 6 | Andrew Warren , Director of the Association for the Conservation of Energy , said that : " The fall is largely due to nuclear energy being ring-fenced and given a guaranteed market while coal declines . |
| 7 | This suggests that the expansion is largely due to rural-urban migration , which is estimated to account for 40–70 per cent of urban growth in the post-war period up to 1970 ( Morse 1971 ) , and about 50 per cent since then . |
| 8 | This is usually due to insufficient pre-heating of the burner , or in the case of gas stoves , liquid gas collecting in the burner feed tube . |
| 9 | It is usually due to poor quality tapwater used for water changes . |
| 10 | In those cases it is usually due to hormonal imbalance , for which medication is necessary . |
| 11 | Though they do not dispute the independent effects of maternal age and birth order , especially that of young age and parity , they assert that the apparent maleffect of old maternal age and high birth order is probably due to poor child-spacing . |
| 12 | This is probably due to differential contraction of enamel and dentine . |
| 13 | The relatively large size of males compared to females is probably due to sexual selection also , although the value of the male , unencumbered by a baby , in the protection of a harem against predators may also favour a large body size . |
| 14 | This confusion is partly due to any difficulty we find in accepting that the solution to a long standing problem could be so simple ; confusion may also arise because , being influenced by the pace of today 's world , we presume that we are doing something wrong when we do not achieve immediate results . |
| 15 | Maybe it 's partly due to that air of arrogant hauteur you have , but I find it quite unbearably exciting to look at you and know of the passion that 's lurking underneath . |
| 16 | Wednesday are looking rather lowly , but that I feel is mainly due to early season woes , and as , I am assured from relatives down the M1 , they have a much easier 2nd half of the season . |
| 17 | Similarly , the discussion of fermentation and metabolism is not for the unwary — eg the suggestion that the low selectivity of P(HB3) conversion from butyric acid in alcaligenes is mainly due to concomitant polyphosphate formation . |
| 18 | In practice , unless the employer can show that the employee has copied or physically removed a list of names or the details of a process then it may be very difficult to establish that the knowledge of the employee is exclusively due to confidential information . |
| 19 | This is again due to arterial spasm and deoxygenated ( blue blood ) pooling in the veins and making them take on this abnormal hue . |