Example sentences of "can be attributed to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who knows how many quarrels , false accusations , unnecessary dismissals , how many promising careers cut short can be attributed to a butler 's slovenliness at the stage of drawing up the staff plan ? |
| 2 | This can be attributed to a number of factors : the increased availability of street heroin in Wirral during the early 1980s ; the periodic droughts of pot and speed at around about the same time ( some of the users suggested a direct relation between these phenomena ) ; the existence of large numbers of users initiated in the 1978–81 period who acted both as models to emulate and who were also probably the first dealers the new initiates came into contact with . |
| 3 | Morton , in collaboration with others , has argued , from 1966 to the present time , that in the Pauline corpus only Romans , 1 and 2 Corinthians , and Galatians form a homogeneous group which can be attributed to a single hand . |
| 4 | A continual drop in the pond level despite the weather conditions , can be attributed to a leak , which will need finding and sealing . |
| 5 | The law has some part to play in stimulating directors to take appropriate action in these areas by imposing liability where loss can be attributed to a failure on the part of the board to ensure that the company is equipped with an adequate organisational structure . |
| 6 | Once again , however , Communist inability to consolidate this position can be attributed to a combination of swift and effective repression of Communism in Latin America ( partly a response to their increased support , partly due to the onset of the Cold War and the pro-US orientation of most Latin American regimes in the late 1940s and 1950s ) and failures in tactics by the parties . |
| 7 | This criticism is based ( a ) on comparisons with other countries such as West Germany and Japan ( Vittas 1986 ) , where banks play a much larger role in industrial financing ; ( b ) on an assumption that bad industrial performance can be attributed to a lack of finance ; and ( c ) on a certain dissatisfaction with consistently high levels of bank profitability . |
| 8 | A short head defeat by Geisway in the Predominate Stakes at Goodwood can be attributed to a farcically slowly-run race , and Beneficial should prove more effective over this extra quarter-mile . |
| 9 | A short head defeat by Geisway in the Predominate Stakes at Goodwood can be attributed to a farcically slowly-run race , and Beneficial should prove more effective over this extra quarter-mile . |
| 10 | A short head defeat by Geisway in the Predominate Stakes at Goodwood can be attributed to a farcically slowly-run race . |
| 11 | We conclude , from equation ( 5 ) , that the overall entropy change can be attributed to a mean entropic cost per rotor of ∼6 kJ mol -1 ( TΔS at 300 K ) . |
| 12 | On the one hand this can be attributed to an unwillingness by politicians to provide for a greater disclosure of information . |
| 13 | This can be attributed to an intramolecular chair-chair transition in the ring . |