Example sentences of "[be] due [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where marine action is relatively stronger deltas tend to be cuspate with concave outlines in plan , for example the Tiber , though one wonders whether these differences in plan might not be due primarily to the frequency and location of distributaries : the Tiber has only one . |
| 2 | This variation seemed to be due both to the severity of the impairment and to personality factors ; it would therefore be simplistic and unwise to make generalisations based entirely on impairment . |
| 3 | Group formation may be due here to the collaboration of males in defence against rivals , so that male relationships become the main factor influencing the dispersion of females . |
| 4 | Its apparent unpredictability might be due just to the operation of undisclosed effects-hidden variables they were called . |
| 5 | These changes in the participation rates of the elderly must be due either to a reduction in the demand for the labour of this section of the population , or a reduction in the labour services offered or supplied by the elderly , or some combination of the two . |
| 6 | An increase in the number of veins may be due either to an increase in the number of branches of a principal vein , or to the development of secondary longitudinal veins , between preexisting veins . |
| 7 | This could be due either to the failure of these methods to elevate Ca 2+ in the appropriate manner ( presumably what is needed is a large transient within spines ) or to the need for additional pre- and/or postsynaptic signals . |
| 8 | This may be due partly to the need consciously to establish common cultural references in a pluralistic society , whereas the historically narrow class base of British higher education meant that a lot of the cultural references could be taken for granted ; the Robbins ( 1963 , p. 7 ) reference to the ‘ transmission of a common culture and common standards of citizenship ’ was perhaps a sign that this cultural assumption was finally breaking down under the pressure of expansion and democratization . |
| 9 | This may be due partly to the fact that , compared to the University of Wales , the Polytechnic is a relatively new arrival on the higher education scene , and partly because of the Welsh tendency , even more marked than in the rest of the country , to regard technological education as less prestigious than that in pure science and humanities . |