Example sentences of "due [adv] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These low values are due mostly to horizontal transport of lower ozone amounts from mid-latitudes rather than chemical destruction . |
| 2 | ‘ Young man , it does not do to appear clever : advancement in the party is due entirely to alcoholic stupidity . ’ |
| 3 | In other overseas markets the deficit increased from $2.9m to $6.1m due largely to adverse currency movements in Brazil and a poor result in Puerto Rico which reported an increased deficit . |
| 4 | The majority of alleged perpetrators , however , were not subjected to criminal proceedings due largely to insufficient evidence and denial of the allegation . |
| 5 | In the uplands of the UK , broadleaved woods are fragmented ( due largely to past clearance for agriculture ) and confined largely to steep valley slopes , to boulder strewn and rocky ground , and to gorges . |
| 6 | Church Lane in St. Giles , London ( a notorious ‘ rookery ’ ) had 655 people in its 27 houses , 4.9 to a room ) according to a London Statistical Society survey of 1841 , and in 1847 , 1,095 or 8.1 to a room — an increase due partly to comprehensive redevelopment nearby , partly to renewed Irish immigration after the Famine of 1845–6 . |
| 7 | The value of exports rose significantly during 1989 to reach US$970,400,000 due partly to increased production of bauxite and alumina , aided by the reopening of the Alpart plant at Nain [ see also p. 36930 ] . |
| 8 | This fall in consumption is due partly to reduced demand and partly to increasing prices , in turn resulting from reduced catches . |
| 9 | The brighter sound is due partly to reflected sound from the back of the cabinet , plus bass frequency phase cancellation due to the reduced speaker baffle area . |
| 10 | From the mid 1960s onwards , its popularity steadily declined due partly to damaging criticism , partly to competing perspectives which appeared to provide superior explanations , and partly to changes in fashion . |
| 11 | Further , there is a general westward drift of material along this section of the coast , so that the shingle formations exhibit a wide variety of features due both to straightforward wave action and to longshore drift . |
| 12 | The hesitancy of the vigilantes seemed only due now to mutual dislike , which would soon resolve itself one way or another . |
| 13 | Unemployment , however , was expected to fall from 8.1 per cent in 1988 to 7.9 per cent in 1989 due mainly to increased job opportunities in the manufacturing sector , whose contribution to GDP was estimated to have expanded from 24.4 per cent in 1988 to 25.6 per cent in 1989 . |
| 14 | The increase is due mainly to extra material on mechanisms and neighbouring-group effects . |
| 15 | Anyhow I thought the team had a pretty good crimble period , despite the number of draws which were due mainly to bad luck and some inept finishing . |
| 16 | Mario Aresti , finance director , said the erosion in margins was due equally to increased production costs and attempts to maintain volume sales . |
| 17 | There still remains a variable minority of cases of non-gonococcal urethritis which are due neither to chlamydial infection nor to one of the other causes mentioned earlier . |
| 18 | The dark band across the middle of the figure is due primarily to atomic hydrogen in the disk between the Sun and the bar . |
| 19 | * The water quality in Pusan , South Korea 's major industrial city , is deteriorating due primarily to industrial effluent . |
| 20 | Thus for increasing exposure a rise in the reading could be due either to new material seen or to the phenomenon that we have called spreading , i.e. the effect according to which a subject is seen as larger merely because of a longer exposure . |
| 21 | Although the finding of typical , oval , thin-shelled strongyle eggs on faecal examination may be a useful aid to diagnosis , it is important to remember that substantial worm burdens may be associated with faecal egg counts of only a few hundred epg , due either to low fecundity of adult worms or to the presence of many immature parasites . |
| 22 | Mature N. lapillus are thought not to grow ( Moore , 1936 ) but Moore ( 1938a ) found a preponderance of females amongst the largest dog whelks ; he thought this is due either to differential growth rates in the two sexes or to differential onset of maturity.Feare ( 1970c ) also considered that most of the oldest individuals were female . |