Example sentences of "due to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I remember on one occasion the four of us went down to Glastonbury Fair where he sang , but due to a balls-up over the sound and the electricity , they did n't put him on until the next day and that was at about 5.00 in the morning when the sun came through .
2 In Northern Ireland , the Kinghan Mission was founded in 1857 in Belfast due to the interests of the Rev. Kinghan who was then Headmaster of the Ulster Institution .
3 While there is no regulation that specifically excludes due diligence work on a listed company , in practice it is rarely undertaken due to the rules on equality of information to be given not only to all shareholders but also to offerors or bona fide potential offerors .
4 Due to the circumstances of the original build , there are some strange anomalies in the plan , but the courtyard remains a key part of the design , much enjoyed by visitors in the summer , sitting under a fine specimen walnut tree .
5 In the same way , the collection of information from the classroom from which we hope to draw inferences about teaching material must be such that distorting factors due to the circumstances of collection do not invalidate its use .
6 Whilst one of the rights of owners is to use the land which they own as they please , there are restrictions on their use of land due to the rights of others .
7 In large measure , these differences are due to the criticisms of the Aristotelian scheme made by some of those who are treated in this book , and in its companion , The Rationalists .
8 Freemasonry in England has negotiated a remarkable U-turn in the last three years due to the criticisms of church , state , its own embarrassed members , the police , the Press and the general public .
9 When fish have lived in water then bring about changes due to the products of their metabolism .
10 Brain dysfunction - due to uncontrolled electrical discharges as in epilepsy or due to the effects of drugs or toxins damping down electrical activity — will lead to disturbance or loss of consciousness .
11 This is partly due to the effects of the war , which has caused massive damage to schools and displaced large sections of the population out of the southern provinces .
12 In many ways their lot became much worse due to the effects of poor education and little prospect of work .
13 The formation of planetary systems and the size and chemical composition of each member are , then , remarkably regular : given a sun-sized star a computer generally comes up with a similar range of planets to that in the solar system , with small rocky planets closest to the star and the large gaseous ones further out ( due to the effects of gravity , orbits would later space themselves out along the lines of our own solar system ) .
14 Development on the Glasgow and Gateshead sites has been slower , partly due to the effects of the recession , but in each case a mixed economy of houses and offices is planned .
15 The excesses in the analyses of Flotta or offshore may therefore be indirectly due to the effects of Sullom Voe .
16 It is also noticeable that pan Atlantic species have a shallower upper bathymetric limit in the west than in the east , possibly due to the effects of the Western Boundary Current .
17 On July 31 , 1989 , Bernard Valcourt pleaded guilty in Edmundston , New Brunswick , to a charge of impaired driving due to the effects of alcohol , and resigned as Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs and as Minister responsible for Canada Post .
18 Agricultural production fell by 10.8 per cent , largely due to the effects of the country 's worst drought in 50 years .
19 On Aug. 2 the UOF published in Paris an appeal to non-governmental organizations to send aid to some 200,000 civilians in the north and south-west of Djibouti , who it claimed were dying at the rate of 100 a day due to the effects of drought and a government blockade of areas of rebel activity .
20 It may be the result of inability to maintain a constant frequency of electrical control activity and this may be due to the effects of muscle disease on groups of muscle cells producing populations with altered frequencies .
21 ‘ Our staff turnover is down 50 per cent and that is not entirely due to the effects of the recession , ’ says general manager of the Holiday Inn Bristol , a Scotts ' hotel which recently completed a £10 million refurbishment and emerged as the Bristol Marriott .
22 The 1992 global average temperature was two-tenths of a degree cooler than in 1991 , the third warmest year , largely due to the effects of atmospheric ash from the Mount Pinatubo eruption of June 1991 , which blocked out the sun 's rays .
23 John Smith , senior vice-president , operations said that while the company 's goal was to return to profitability as soon as possible , ‘ for the remainder of 1992 we remain cautious about both revenues and profits due to the uncertainties in both the industry and worldwide economies . ’
24 Knowledge of the effects of urbanization , industrialization and poverty proliferated throughout society , partly due to the efforts of Nonconformists like Rowntree , Cadbury , Mearns and General Booth ; fears developed about the industrial competition from America and Germany ; demands grew within the Liberal party for more state action with regard to education , public health and housing .
25 Now , the average age has plummeted , in great measure due to the efforts of this remarkable character .
26 Due to the efforts of Bruce Harris and Casa Alianza in Guatemala City and appeals from thousands of Amnesty International supporters the policemen were found guilty of his murder in March 1991 and sentenced to prison terms ranging between 10 and 15 years .
27 Where services have grown up , it is mainly due to the efforts of individual workers or managers .
28 In addition , due to the efforts of Woodhouse , Babbage , Herschel and Peacock from 1803 onwards , Leibniz " notation and methods in the calculus had gradually replaced Newton 's in England and as a consequence much of continental analysis had become available to the English .
29 The reason that it became discredited on the scale and at the speed that it did was due to the efforts of the gentleman who introduced it , the right hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) .
30 My right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds , East ( Mr. Healey ) was one of the main authors of that doctrine in the 1960s and today it enjoys some credibility due to the efforts of the present Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence , who has argued clearly for the theory of flexible response in a series of public lectures and articles .
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