Example sentences of "[was/were] attributed to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Faussett failed to appreciate the true significance of his discoveries ; in his journal , kept for the years 1757 to 1773 and later published as Inventorium Sepulchrale under the editorship of Charles Roach Smith in 1856 , the remains were attributed to the period of Roman occupation , while Smith preferred a purely British origin . |
| 2 | Though they were attributed to the Moors , the Moors themselves regarded the irrigation works themselves as an inheritance from a previous Christian civilization ; age-old , they represent a degree of social organization and co-operation that compels admiration . |
| 3 | Inevitably , policy failures were attributed to the government and its officials , when the blame lay more widely with the whole of the community and in particular with the strong British dislike both for rethinking an entire situation and for the radical changes that might have to follow from such a reconsideration . |
| 4 | In the report of this study 14 of 28 episodes of severe hypoglycaemia which occurred in my patients were attributed to the wrong insulin and patients were subsequently excluded selectively . |
| 5 | The attacks were attributed to the banned Mouvement des forces démocratiques de la Casamance ( MFDC ) . |
| 6 | The explosions were attributed to the Basque separatist group Euzkadi ta Askatasuna ( ETA ) , as were three others in Spain during July in which three people were killed and 20 injured . |
| 7 | Both of the former two mosaics were attributed to the fourth century ( entirely on stylistic grounds ) , and by virtue of its association with the saltire mosaic ( pI . |
| 8 | Under California law the stock dividends were attributed to the life tenant . |
| 9 | Mercifully , this time casualties were lighter than during that phenomenal event but there were reports of at least three fatalities which were attributed to the storm . |
| 10 | Taking a counter-example , the success of a project reported by Veblen ( 1978 ) for an area in western Guatemala was attributed to the institution of communal forest holdings , or ejido , which has favoured preservation of the forests of Totonicapan . |
| 11 | Pomerania , with a population of over 100,000 Polish-speakers , was about 35 per cent Polish , and in spite of the flight from the land and the flight of the population to the industrial centres of the west , Pomerania was one of the few Prussian provinces to show a marked increase in its population , and almost all of that growth was attributed to the Poles . |
| 12 | The two-horned creature 's plump and well-fed appearance was attributed to the fact that its prey was so plentiful . |
| 13 | The idiosyncratic nature of Our Daily Bread was appreciated at the time of its release and was attributed to the obvious conflict between Vidor 's convictions and box-office considerations . |
| 14 | Reports indicate that plug-fouling was a constant problem and was attributed to the lower power settings required to work with the helicopter cameraship . |
| 15 | In the first case we considered , a belief shared by leading industrialists ( their tendency to identify the interests of their own class with those of their country was attributed to the system of education , the media and so on . |
| 16 | To some extent the blame for rural distress was attributed to the fluctuations in world markets , but as the zaibatsu did not appear to be suffering to the same extent , rural discontent was increasingly directed towards the alliance between politicians and industrial financiers . |
| 17 | It was excavated in an unsystematic way , and the many illustrations of finds show that the emphasis was put on the recovered finds rather than on the site itself In this illustration , published soon after the excavation in 1883 , the burial was attributed to the Vikings . |
| 18 | This was attributed to the demand for DP staff induced by " Big Bang " — the deregulation of many of the City 's financial activities and the major extension of computer-based trading . |
| 19 | For crude oil , Quan ( 1992 ) found that the spot price led the futures price by over a month , and this unusual result was attributed to the dominance of the spot market for oil . |
| 20 | The relative impact of AIDS in these two Caribbean territories was attributed to the important role of international tourism in their respective economies . |
| 21 | The recurrence of such a food crisis was attributed to the combination of drought , civil war , and structural underdevelopment , compounded by falling commodity prices and the burden of foreign debt . |
| 22 | On April 26 a car bomb explosion outside the offices of the private Liberty and Democracy Institute ( ILD ) in Lima was attributed to the Maoist Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) movement . |
| 23 | Much of the success in restoring aid flows was attributed to the debt-reduction scheme proposed in March 1989 by the US Treasury Secretary , James Brady [ see pp. 36541-42 ; 37016-17 ] . |
| 24 | The attack was attributed to the leftist November-17 group . |
| 25 | The attack , like the March 2 bombing which killed Ranjan Wijeratne [ see p. 38103 ] , was attributed to the LTTE although not formally claimed by them . |
| 26 | Miyazawa 's eventual success in the leadership poll was attributed to the support of the largest faction in the LDP , led jointly by Shin Kanemaru and by former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita , who remained a powerful force in LDP politics despite having been accused of involvement in the Recruit Cosmos financial scandal of 1987-89 . |
| 27 | His acceptance of this compromise was attributed to the damaging impact of the recession on his opinion poll ratings , and pressure from Republican congressmen to show concern for the jobless . |
| 28 | The improvement was attributed to the fact that the number of childhood deaths had been falling by 120,000 a year globally over the last five years . |
| 29 | The attack was attributed to the Maoist Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) organization . |
| 30 | An immigrant from the Dominican Republic , Lucrecia Pérez Martos , was shot dead in Madrid on Nov. 13 and one man was wounded in an attack by hooded gunmen which was attributed to the extreme right . |