Example sentences of "[noun] be [adv] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Anna 's family say the authorities are also to blame for her death . |
| 2 | The judge , who criticised the police for the way they conducted their inquiry , read out a note from the jury : ‘ We believe Sheffield social services department are partly to blame for Mr and Mrs Hanby being placed in the predicament they are in today ’ . |
| 3 | I do not think that the speakers are totally to blame for the lack of picked note definition either . |
| 4 | The magazine Der Spiegel recently published the results of an opinion poll revealing that 14 per cent of Germans still think Jews were partly to blame for what happened to them in the second world war , 36 per cent believe Jews ‘ have too much influence ’ , and more than 50 per cent believe it is time for Germany to forget the past and move on . |
| 5 | NEARLY one German in three believes the Nazi era had its good points and that Jews were partly to blame for their own persecution , according to a new poll . |
| 6 | All the slight injuries happened at roundabouts on Northgate , Bondgate , Parkgate and North Road Mr Graham Hamilton , of Darlington Freewheelers , said car drivers were often to blame for bike accidents and called for new measures to raise awareness . |
| 7 | Graham Hamilton , of Darlington Freewheelers , said car drivers were often to blame for accidents and called for new measures to raise awareness . |
| 8 | The immediate remedy is usually to petition for winding up in the public interest , so that a provisional liquidator ( the Official Receiver ) can be appointed , halting the company 's activities . |
| 9 | There are still problems with central defence as Wetherall was partly to blame for the goals . |
| 10 | The politicians in Washington are there to fight for their state and the conflicts in Washington are not conflicts between , so much between the states and the federal government , as conflicts between the states for different advantages . |
| 11 | The dominance of the agro-export business and the patterns of land ownership are primarily to blame for this and for the abandonment of traditional , more ecologically sound , forms of cultivation and pest control . |
| 12 | SCARBOROUGH : Extensive work is underway to prepare for a big launch of a scheme to convert the former Odeon cinema into a theatre . |
| 13 | While recognizing that poor local economic management was partly to blame for the region 's debt crisis , the report argued that what it described as the banks ' irresponsible lending practices meant they should also share responsibility and assume greater losses . |
| 14 | Diego Maradona was partly to blame for the brawl between Sevilla and Cadiz players at the end of Sunday 's Spanish league match , according to police . |
| 15 | In September , Marshall admitted that the CEGB was partly to blame for acidification of Scandinavia . |
| 16 | At common law , if the court found that the plaintiff was partially to blame for his injuries , he received nothing at all . |
| 17 | Pollution was directly to blame for a decline in life expectancy from 70.4 years in 1964 to 69.3 years in 1990 , Yablokov claimed , adding that in some particularly polluted areas it had fallen to as low as 44 years . |
| 18 | ‘ I did n't expect him to pull out because the ball was there to go for . ’ |
| 19 | In effect these new arrangements are both to pay for the reconstruction of Iraq and Kuwait after the war and to provide a mechanism to redistribute Gulf oil wealth throughout the Middle East and North Africa . |
| 20 | Legislators and enforcers were largely to blame for not providing a proper frame-work of controls . ’ |
| 21 | Kingsley says he 's not sure whether the hunger is there to win for the second year . |
| 22 | The Commission is also to push for sanctions against the manufacture , sale and use of illegal growth promoters . |
| 23 | Ruthless cuts are being made to Canada 's railway system and the last whistle is soon to blow for the country 's most famous train , The Canadian . |
| 24 | The industrial tribunal at Middlesbrough has found that David Heselton , 29 , of Rosedale Close , Whitby was partly to blame for his sacking last June . |
| 25 | In earlier chapters we discussed the possibility that poor acoustic-phonetic processing was primarily to blame for delays or errors in automatic speech recognition . |
| 26 | No , the woman was clearly to blame for everything . |
| 27 | Although Fletcher admitted that England have not come up to standard over the last three months , he also believes that a poor itinerary and a lack of turning pitches in English domestic cricket is largely to blame for the string of dismal performances . |
| 28 | Gordon Chapman is here to interpret for the deaf . |
| 29 | Gordon Chapman is here to interpret for the deaf . |
| 30 | Gordon Chapman 's here to interpret for the deaf . |