Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] be attributed to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which particular set of such properties are attributed to her by the utterance of ( 34 ) are at least in part dependent on the contexts of utterance : said by an admirer it may be a commendation , conveying the properties of toughness and resilience ; said by a detractor it may be taken as a denigration , conveying her lack of flexibility , emotional impassivity or belligerence . |
| 2 | Both these attacks were attributed to Iranian terrorists . |
| 3 | These costs were attributed to job dissatisfaction caused by boring , repetitive work . |
| 4 | These ailments were attributed to bad housing and malnutrition . |
| 5 | Cardio-vascular disease ( responsible for a quarter of all deaths worldwide ) threatened to increase dramatically in Latin America and other South countries , although in the developed world ( where half of all deaths were attributed to heart attacks and strokes ) the trend was generally downward . |
| 6 | Claims made for the differences between speech and writing , then , are put into perspective by the fact that the same claims are attributed to other variables . |
| 7 | Certainly both books are attributed to Walter Hilton Canonicus de Thurgarton , though the mood he expresses in Scale 1 , which is addressed to a female recluse , seems similar to that he expressed while he was still a solitary and suffering the kind of feelings of purposelessness he expresses in the De Imagine Peccati . |