English term
was not even due to
"Wellington's abandonment of an attempt to make a Tory government was not even due to threats of civil war more to Peef's refusal to join Tory government."
Thank you
PRO (1): Сергей Лузан
When entering new questions, KudoZ askers are given an opportunity* to classify the difficulty of their questions as 'easy' or 'pro'. If you feel a question marked 'easy' should actually be marked 'pro', and if you have earned more than 20 KudoZ points, you can click the "Vote PRO" button to recommend that change.
How to tell the difference between "easy" and "pro" questions:
An easy question is one that any bilingual person would be able to answer correctly. (Or in the case of monolingual questions, an easy question is one that any native speaker of the language would be able to answer correctly.)
A pro question is anything else... in other words, any question that requires knowledge or skills that are specialized (even slightly).
Another way to think of the difficulty levels is this: an easy question is one that deals with everyday conversation. A pro question is anything else.
When deciding between easy and pro, err on the side of pro. Most questions will be pro.
* Note: non-member askers are not given the option of entering 'pro' questions; the only way for their questions to be classified as 'pro' is for a ProZ.com member or members to re-classify it.
Responses
United Kingdom
Translator since 1953
Native in: English
Works in: Russian to English, German to English, English
was not caused by what one might think the most likely reason
--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 6 mins (2006-07-31 19:32:41 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------
"war, but more..." The insertion of the comma and "but" improves the sentence and makes it clearer.
--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 1 hr (2006-07-31 20:31:16 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------
For "thread" read "threat".
seems fine to me
'because of', in other words.
HTH
Sara
--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 4 mins (2006-07-31 19:30:18 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------
I think I would like to see a 'but' after civil war.
was not so much a result of.... as
Mexico
Committed to Quality and Service
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
Works in: German to English
attributable to
Due to - Careful writers avoid this phrase unless 'due' functions as an adjective, with a specific noun to modify: 'The shutdown was due to snow' (with shutdown as the modified noun.) But not 'The schools were closed due to snow;' make it because of snow instead. - The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage
was not even caused by/was not even the result of (see below)
--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 6 mins (2006-07-31 19:32:14 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------
Sorry, it got lost - here we go again!
"Wellington's abandonment of an attempt to make a Tory government was not even due to threats of civil war, BUT more to Peef's refusal to join Tory government."
--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 1 day2 hrs (2006-08-01 22:15:31 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------
Of course, Peter's comment above is also right - it should be:
'. . . Peel's refusal to join A/THE Tory government."
I didn't pick up on it before because I was thinking about the phrase you gave in the question and the missing 'BUT' which I mentioned in my original answer.
Sorry about that.
Discussion