Example sentences of "due [adv] to [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from random fluctuations , due mostly to sampling and response errors ( the latter are very common in retrospective surveys ) , the relationship between infant mortality and birth order took reversed " J " , " U " or " J " shaped forms in most of the sampled communities . |
| 2 | This failure is due not to cussedness but to ignorance of what Parliament intended by the obscure words of the legislation . |
| 3 | When the people from Furnace Road visit the new housing estates they feel hemmed in , for though they live in a tight little terrace with backyard behind , and rug-sized gardens in front , they are used to a spaciousness that is due not to planning but to the lack of plan . |
| 4 | Does not that nail the lie being put around that these circumstances are due not to world but to British recession ? |
| 5 | I believe that it is due both to privatisation and to the benefits of restructuring , especially in the electricity industry . |
| 6 | Such swift and arbitrary death , due neither to weakness nor fault , but to sheer chance , is the fate of vast numbers of animals that every day are eaten by predators . |
| 7 | But former executives and advisers to both companies told Esquire that the failures were due primarily to mismanagement and bad decision-making . |
| 8 | Experts have said that the cadmium may be due either to pollution or to " natural seabed reserves " . |
| 9 | Blocks in enzyme function , due either to deficiency or absence of an enzyme ( as in phenylketonuria ) , can cause severe disruption of the body 's metabolic pathways . |