Example sentences of "which [vb mod] [be] attribute " in BNC.

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1 They characterise the management of secondary schools as having a number of features — many of which may be attributed to the absence of effective staff management policies .
2 In some areas the amount of inversion of the Carboniferous basement apparently exceeds that of the post-Zechstein section which may be attributed to removal of significant amounts of late Carboniferous strata during late Hercynian times ; these areas are also associated with the principal gas discoveries in the basin .
3 Other jurists between them reach a grand total of eleven cases ( none of which may be attributed to petitioners ) .
4 This area is further complicated by the dilemma concerning the importance which should be attributed to factors which are not physiological , but psychological .
5 Where research studies have been carried out in different parts of the country it is difficult to disentangle anything which might be attributed to regional variations specifically , from other systematic variations by gender , class , ethnicity or variations over time ( that is where changes in patterns of family relationships have occurred between the 1960s and the 1980s ) .
6 The linguistic acrobatics these words perform in Rusty 's mind and the various interpretations which might be attributed to the results are of less consequence in and of themselves than the fact that this performance demonstrates verbal operations of a logic other than that attributed to the rational mind .
7 In general there is evidence of positive net benefits for employers but that a large proportion of further employment which might be attributed to the scheme restricts employment of other potential employees .
8 Only in Orkney did this response receive a low rating which could be attributed to most of the people interviewed having been brought up on a farm and having the confidence that usually goes hand in hand with experience .
9 Population attributable risks , not adjusted for other factors , estimate the proportion of deaths explained by exposure to the risk factor , and the relative attributable risks estimate the percentage of the excess risk in Maori , compared with non-Maori , which could be attributed to a higher exposure to the risk factor in Maori children .
10 It revealed a sorry state of affairs in schools which could be attributed to the cuts in educational spending — something that proved embarrassing to the government of the day .
11 According to the health board , significant differences were found between the two groups in some symptoms like eye , throat and skin irritation , headaches and nausea , which could be attributed to the spill .
12 There is far less of the mystification which can be attributed to the account of the troubles in Guerrillas : what we get is the mysterious politics of forest and township as observed by an outsider , by an African Asian who understands a good deal of what is going on .
13 These examples of ambiguity , of the switching of resources , and of corruption explain some of the failures of aid which can be attributed primarily to the recipients .
14 Here the amount of uplift computed from the reflectance values may include a considerable fraction which can be attributed to removal of Carboniferous overburden in Hercynian times .
15 It is at this stage , with a primary definition of ‘ goodness ’ established , that the relationship between ‘ goodness ’ and the concept of the Created God can now be considered , so that the full contribution to the definition of that God which can be attributed to the Second Period , can be evaluated .
16 That rate of : wage inflation which can be attributed solely to union militancy can be regarded as resulting from the power struggle between unions and employers for a bigger share of the national ‘ cake ’ and between the unions themselves for higher places in the wages ‘ league table ’ .
17 Through participation in the process of communication the child gradually becomes aware of the significance which can be attributed to her own actions and vocalisations .
18 Not only are there examples of extreme rarity , a large ‘ Christ driving the money changers from the temple ’ in coloured chalk by Jacopo Bassano , two handsome brush drawings by Carpaccio , a ‘ Thebaid ’ by Costa , the only drawing which can be attributed with any reason to Desiderio da Settignano , Pordenone 's superb red chalk ‘ Martyrdom of Saint Peter Martyr ’ , drawn in competition with Titian and Palma Vecchio , which comes from Chatsworth and should never have been allowed an export licence from Britain , Albert Cuyp 's delightful ‘ Milkmaid ’ , Saenredam 's ‘ Choir and north ambulatory of the Church of Saint Bavo , Haarlem ’ , Altdorfer 's ‘ Christ carrying the cross ’ , but also many of great beauty , Turner 's finished watercolour ‘ Long Ship lighthouse , Land 's End ’ , the anonymous Swiss ( Bernese ? )
19 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 .
20 The more common remedies are no less fanciful and voluntarist , from exhumation of the Schumpeterian entrepreneur to proposals for corporate cultural revivalism ( see Ray , 1986 ) and an evangelical faith in the explanatory purchase of ‘ economic culture ’ in its post-Confucian mode , an explanation to which can be attributed both the ‘ decline of the West ’ and the rise of East Asia .
21 Agency is irrelevant unless there has been some default on the part of the agent which can be attributed to the principal .
22 Changes in the number of households may be broken down into those which can be attributed to the changing numbers in each age group and those attributable to changes in headship rates .
23 * variations which can be attributed to the occurrence of identifiable and non-random events , such as bad weather , strikes or adverse publicity .
24 Of all the functions which can be attributed to ancient urban settlements , the most universal was an economic one .
25 Since there will always be some unemployment which can be attributed to microeconomic factors , the maximum feasible level of employment will fall short of L F .
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