Example sentences of "[be] put down to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the stall occurs above about 500 feet , the accident can be put down to lack of awareness and poor stall and spin recovery training . |
| 2 | Above all , the evening 's success should be put down to music which never ceases to delight by the sophistication of its continuity , by its sheer inspiration . |
| 3 | Confirmation of this astounding occurrence — which must banish any churlish suggestion that the affair is to be put down to Russia 's eternal obsession with the supernatural — was provided by Genrikh Silanov , head of the Voronezh Geophysical Laboratory . |
| 4 | It was , presumably , drafted and engrossed by persons of reasonable educational standard , and the eccentricities ( to modern eyes ) in the orthography can not be put down to illiteracy . |
| 5 | It follows , then , that Warwickshire 's uncertain start to the new season can , to a large degree , be put down to absenteeism among these very bowlers . |
| 6 | If he had been born in Australia or Lithuania or even Manchester , Sheikh al Hassan could have ejected his minion on to the street in the sure knowledge that it would be put down to robust good humour . |
| 7 | In the beginning , all carp were streamlined , torpedo-shaped fish , and any variation in girth relative to length ( apart from the difference between mature males and females ) could be put down to the quality of the food supply . |
| 8 | If this were an isolated case , it might simply be put down to an individual health authority overreacting to public embarrassment . |
| 9 | How true the tale of this lemming population might be is beyond verification ; certainly a great deal of the monastic retelling of it could be put down to the strong regional bias of Northumbrian biographers against the strange races of the deep south . |
| 10 | In a way , it has to be put down to mutual dependence . |
| 11 | This improvement in standards can only be put down to cellar training . |
| 12 | Likes and dislikes can not be put down to pure genetic inheritance alone . |
| 13 | Also , when you deprive your body of food , it prefers to derive the energy it needs from your muscle tissue as well as your fat stores — therefore any weight loss can be put down to loss of lean muscle , not just flab ! |
| 14 | If that change can be put down to one man it is Bob Brett , who took over coaching duties from Balazs Taroczy in February last year . |
| 15 | They will realise they can not change everything ; the hours spent re-inventing government or shifting paradigms will be put down to youthful inexperience . |
| 16 | In the first flush of enthusiasm following these unprecedented claims there was a very strong tendency to identical dreaming exclusively with REM sleep , presuming that any lack of identification of dreaming with eye movements could be put down to experimental error . |
| 17 | She wondered how long ago it had begun and how many of her difficulties could be put down to whatever was the matter with her . |
| 18 | Granted the rich diversity of the phenomena of the biological world , a disagreement over results can generally be put down to differences between animals ( ‘ species or strain differences ’ , for instance ) or to subtle alterations in experimental conditions , and can therefore be fudged or ignored . |
| 19 | A major part of his success — besides making a good detector — can be put down to his own strength of character , and a deep and lasting commitment to the Christian ethic . |
| 20 | In others of these theories the large basins are produced by bodies which come from beyond the Earth-Moon system , in which case the smaller number of large basins on what is now the lunar far side has to be put down to chance , which is just plausible . |
| 21 | No I mean I I do n't think what happened on Piper can be put down to basic safety . |
| 22 | She hoped the hectic flush would be put down to the exertion of bending nearly double . |
| 23 | Their victory can also be put down to the lack of a co-ordinated attack by the Whites . |
| 24 | And even those could be put down to excessive grief at the loss of his wife . |
| 25 | It 's success could be put down to the hard sell . |
| 26 | It can only be put down to the ravages of drink ’ . |
| 27 | More worryingly , many consumers said they did not like the taste , but much of that could be put down to the fact that many housewives had a narrow cooking repertoire with an average of only two turkey variations . |