Example sentences of "have been blamed for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The current poor economic climate has been blamed for total admissions of only 420,000 people , some 300,000 down on the 1988 total and the lowest figure since the show moved to the National Exhibition Centre from London in 1978 . |
| 2 | In recent months , it has been blamed for freak storms in Pacific islands and on the Californian coast , and flooding in Peru . |
| 3 | The El Niño climate phenomenon , which has been blamed for widespread droughts in southern Africa , Australia and south-east Asia [ see EDs 57 , 55 ] appears to be over . |
| 4 | The hunting has been blamed for rapid falls in the population of birds . |
| 5 | Reindeer in the area now number around 160,000 , and have been blamed for widespread erosion as a result of over-grazing . |