Example sentences of "due [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pledges to check expenditure were not kept ; indeed , it continued to rise , as did the district rate , a fact that was conveniently blamed on the unfortunate legacy of labour 's investment programme , but was due rather to the desire of the Alliance to extend municipal enterprise and trading , particularly in tram-ways and electricity . |
| 2 | A striking feature of these statistics is the high proportion of youth unemployment , due mostly to the decline in job opportunities for young people during the recession . |
| 3 | was due wholly to the negligence or wrongful act of a government or other authority in exercising its function of maintaining lights or other navigational aids . |
| 4 | The Act provides that there is no liability under this head for damage which is due wholly to the fault of the person suffering it and that contributory negligence is a partial defence . |
| 5 | The fire effects were awful , very embarrassing , and due entirely to a lack of money . ’ |
| 6 | If you know that distance , you can work out what the red shift would be if it were due entirely to the expansion of the universe . |
| 7 | Erm , would the er spokesman not agree that there is a crisis in secure accommodation in Leicestershire at the moment due entirely to the stance of the Labour and Liberal parties on this authority . |
| 8 | This massive loss of forest is by no means due entirely to the timber industry , there being other contributory factors such as conversion of land for urbanisation , agriculture , and increase in domestic animals associated with human populations . |
| 9 | Following trade representations , Customs have now decided that there is little practical difference between the schemes and will accept that output tax is due only on the payment from the employee and any third party . |
| 10 | If it is due only on the trustee 's death , a bonorum emptor is allowed to take possession and enjoy the profits of the trust property during the lifetime of the trustee ( and debtor ) . |
| 11 | Held , that in the opinion of the court , ( 1 ) a stay for delay or any other reason was to be imposed only in exceptional circumstances ; that , even where delay could be said to be unjustifiable , the imposition of a permanent stay was to be the exception rather than the rule ; and that even more rarely could a stay properly be imposed in the absence of fault on the part of the complainant or the prosecution , and never where the delay was due merely to the complexity of the case or contributed to by the defendant 's actions ( post , pp. 18H — 19A ) . |
| 12 | Delay due merely to the complexity of the case or contributed to by the actions of the defendant himself should never be the foundation for a stay . |
| 13 | Delay due merely to the complexity of the case or contributed to by the actions of the defendant himself should never be the foundation for a stay . |
| 14 | Subscriptions : All subscriptions are due annually by the end of January of the current year and shall be classed under the following categories : — Individual Members , Overseas Members , Group Members ( subscriptions on a capitation basis ) and Affiliated Clubs and Societies . |
| 15 | a ) Subscriptions : All subscriptions are due annually by the end of January of the current year and shall be classed under the following categories : — Individual Members , Overseas Members , Group Members ( subscriptions on a capitation basis ) and Affiliated Clubs and Societies . |
| 16 | ‘ Subscriptions are due annually by the end of January . ’ |
| 17 | Reportedly , the owner 's intention was to fit additional drag reduction fairings , to the landing gear , when the aircraft was on jacks at an approved maintenance organisation for its Annual Inspection , due shortly after the accident . |
| 18 | Its apparent unpredictability might be due just to the operation of undisclosed effects-hidden variables they were called . |
| 19 | The trend is now towards small regional events , due largely to a reduction in the funds available for overnight accommodation and travel . |
| 20 | After overcoming Blackburn 3-0 at home in the first leg , due largely to an injury to Rovers ' goalkeeper Terry Gennoe , they were beaten 2-1 last night but prevailed on aggregate . |
| 21 | During the formative years of cultural studies in Britain ‘ textualism ’ was dominant , but the growing disenchantment with its Althusserian paradigm ( of which the Screen/Screen Education division was just one sign ) was due largely to the inability of that paradigm to inform a criticism of telling political intervention . |
| 22 | This will be especially true of headlands , due largely to the phenomenon of wave refraction ( Fig. 8.7 ) . |
| 23 | The success of Hornby 's invention was due largely to the principle of gradation from simple sets to others , larger with more complicated mechanisms . |
| 24 | The fact that the restaurant was successful was due largely to the way in which their respective talents complemented each other . |
| 25 | Much of this is due largely to the construction of their filter . |
| 26 | James besieged the Ulster city of Derry , but its 35,000 Protestant inhabitants successfully defended it , due largely to the leadership and example of the ‘ Apprentice Boys ’ . |
| 27 | The positivists ' emphasis on observable ‘ facts ’ is due largely to the belief that human behaviour can be explained in much the same way as the behaviour of matter . |
| 28 | This foot-dragging — due largely to the growth of a pro-nuclear lobby in the Ukrainian parliament — could have wide repercussions . |
| 29 | This has been due largely to the growth of council housing and perhaps to the improvement grants policy of successive governments particularly since 1969 . |
| 30 | The popularity of South Africa 's kruggerrand was due largely to the fact that collectors were buying a precise quantity of gold at only a fraction over the actual cost of the precious metal . |