Example sentences of "[be] due [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If she exceptionally draws a pension by virtue of her husband 's insurance in place of a smaller one by virtue of her own insurance , the special allowance will be due on the smaller amount .
2 The cause of this is unclear but it could be due to the trophic effect of hypergastrinaemia on the oxyntic mucosa , an effect of smoking , an inherited characteristic , or a combination of these .
3 This may be due to the greater paradigmatic influence of geophysical research on the other earth sciences .
4 But , for such an attribute , the difference could also be due to the greater psychological affinity between Is .
5 This must be due to the current lack of understanding of the design process and the risks associated with developing such a system .
6 It could be due to the mild weather that occurred in the autumn when the lambs were conceived , he said .
7 The higher K m and lower Hill coefficient obtained with this assay may be due to the hydrophobic nature of this dye and its interaction with the phospholipids and/or channel .
8 O. opercularis can be distinguished from O. bairdi by the disk bearing only low granules , the shape of the oral shield which is more rounded , the shape of the proximal oral papillae which are more rounded than those of O. bairdi , finally the tentacle pore is smaller — although this may be due to the small size of the specimen .
9 This may be due to the poor quality of the preaching or it may be due to the fact that some Christians have their own interpretation of the dominical saying , ‘ Except ye be as little children ye can not enter the kingdom of heaven ’ .
10 The success of this greatly appreciated service must in a great measure be due to the pleasant and most helpful personality of the librarian .
11 However , the analyst should be aware that variances between the model and a particular user 's view could be due to the narrow perception of that user .
12 Of course , they may be due to the stochastic component of the process and therefore be unpredictable , or they may be due to the systematic or predictable component .
13 Of course , they may be due to the stochastic component of the process and therefore be unpredictable , or they may be due to the systematic or predictable component .
14 This was considered to be due to the limited involvement of the officers and the clerical assistant in certain parts of the analysis .
15 This may be due to the economic climate , but also the harsh reality of trying to justify fee increases to clients whose perception of the audit service has not changed .
16 While this seems to be reading more into Quinn 's analysis than is justified , work by Mintzberg ( 1978 ) , Miller and Friesen ( 1982 ) , and Pettigrew ( 1985a , 1985b ) , supports the notion of incrementalism , but in a form of uneven development with long-term gradual change punctuated by bursts of ‘ revolutionary ’ change which may be due to the economic environment , management change or other factors usually , but not necessarily , associated with commercial crisis .
17 This may be due to parental management techniques but may also be due to the temperamental state of the child .
18 This is believed to be due to the complex organization of their centre-surround mechanisms .
19 That it did not do so may in part be due to the late H.H. Mayberry , from Marshall County , Tennessee , who in the early 1880s paid a stranger from Nova Scotia $36 ( about $800 in today 's money ) for four of the goats on the strength of their ‘ strange fits or fainting spells , the like of which had never been seen before ’ .
20 This may be due to the complete absence of functional Ea and/or non-polymorphism of the Ea gene product .
21 The youngest and most significant heating event is taken to be due to the crustal stretching in the mid Jurassic .
22 For this reason , the low value of the correlation coefficient does not necessarily mean the lack of relationship between variables ; it may be due to the non-linear nature of the relationship .
23 Such views may be due to the sporadic publication of relevant data , particularly that of time series , for statistically more developed countries .
24 This could be due to the notorious solubility problems with halofantrine which will be especially prominent in in-vitro systems with drug in solution .
25 The different results from the two studies may be due to the diurnal variation in albumin excretion rate or to different methods being used for estimating urinary albumin .
26 Some portion of these costs must be due to the particular sort of culture — surprisingly uniform , across these very different companies — that our sample firms sought to induce : a high participative one .
27 So in no case have the neutrons been definitely proved to be due to the random motion of deuterium associated with a temperature of the order of five million degrees .
28 A lower contact-rate may say nothing about the quality or duration of the contact , but may be due to the physical separation from kin caused by the relatively greater mobility of the middle class .
29 The absence of this association might be due to the smaller number of subjects in our study .
30 The results of the transplantation experiment may only be due to the transplanted salmon following the lead of the native salmon .
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