Example sentences of "[be] blame for [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Single-parent families , that is mothers , are blamed for continuing this process , producing a culture of dependency and poverty in that their children are said to grow up with poor interpersonal skills , low educational achievement , and lack of marketable skills . |
| 2 | The compounds are a major cause of low-level ozone pollution and photo-chemical smog , which has been blamed for damaging human health and contributing to " acid rain " attacks on plants , forests and crops . |
| 3 | So some of the sulphur which has been blamed for causing environmental problems , may before long emerge in the form of ‘ Andricite , ’ plaster and wall-boards in our houses — courtesy of ICI . |
| 4 | The movement was particularly strong in the north-eastern town of Suceava where it claimed credit for the closure in February of the local cellulose fabric plant , whose carbon disulphide emissions had been blamed for causing nervous disorders . |
| 5 | Despite an agreement between Peabody and the Navajo Tribal Council , pollution from the mines has been blamed for contaminating local water supplies , and forcing Indians to leave their homes . |
| 6 | Brackish effluent from the farms has been blamed for polluting fresh water on which rice production depends , particularly in the south of the country . |
| 7 | Political scientists can not be blamed for reporting this particular division of labour between the sexes . |
| 8 | The paymasters were blamed for favouring high energy physics as against engineering , despite the past decade 's shift of resources in the opposite direction . |
| 9 | Art critics are being blamed for vandalising cast iron sculptures which have been likened to ice-cream cones or seashells . |
| 10 | Instead , I found that military firms are to blame for selling all the arms to these poor countries and most of the sales go on without the governments knowing . |