Example sentences of "may be attributed to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be attributed to the fact that the city 's traders were not swamped by the growth of the larger British companies during the colonial period , that among the merchant families involved in the kola nut trade , two generations were common , and that merchant families in Kano were particularly successful from the early 1960s at forming links with overseas companies , not least with those from the Far East . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As Struhsaker ( 1969 ) pointed out , uncertainties and irregularities in attempts to allocate primate species to socio-ecological grades may be attributed to phylogenetic heritage . |
| 4 | Other forms of mental handicap may be attributed to genetic factors , where the fusion of the parents ' genes creates an irregularity in the chromosomal mix . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Although some of this variation may be attributed to inherent reliability problems in the computation method or original poor data quality , other geological factors probably account for the greater part of the observed variation . |
| 7 | Nine of them may be attributed to petitioners . |
| 8 | Other jurists between them reach a grand total of eleven cases ( none of which may be attributed to petitioners ) . |
| 9 | The desacralization of nature that has taken place in the West may be attributed to the influence of Christianity . |
| 10 | Part of this negative image may be attributed to the general British dislike of South Asians who had acquired some knowledge of English and who followed some Western customs , but who had not fully assimilated the values of an English gentleman . |
| 11 | These improvements may be attributed to the adjustments , described in Chapter 6 , which BRAC had made to its standard lobon-gur message as a result of the 1984 observations . |
| 12 | For between the basic drives that may be attributed to human nature and the social structures of human culture there enters a critical indeterminacy . |
| 13 | Different characteristics and qualities may be attributed to different social categories of humans , accompanied perhaps by different moral demands , and proper account must be taken of these in the study of behaviour . |
| 14 | This sad state of affairs may be attributed to feckless parents or to a society which projects its standards and values in such an ambivalent way . |
| 15 | Halpern ( 1986 ) derides their apparent conviction that ‘ it is frightening and perhaps even unAmerican to consider the possibility that even a small part of the sex differences in spatial abilities ( or any cognitive ability ) , may be attributed to biological factors ’ ( 1986 : 1014 ) . |
| 16 | Great Yarmouth 's lead over its hinterland may be attributed to maritime enterprise , its fisheries in particular . |
| 17 | In part , this may be attributed to Watergate and related scandals , but those events by no means provide a complete explanation . |
| 18 | Much of the success , perhaps , was due to superb stage management , as in the organization of demonstrations , but the fact that the Vietminh emerged as leaders of Vietnamese nationalism may be attributed to their sheer ability as a revolutionary party . |
| 19 | The presence of wings is one of the most characteristic features of insects , and their dominance may be attributed to the possession of these organs . |
| 20 | Particular features and style may be attributed to this object to specify the number of doors , type of seats , colour of paintwork etc . |
| 21 | Though some of the deaths may be attributed to associated severe injuries , a delay in diagnosis contributes to the high mortality . |
| 22 | Steffensmeier and Harer ( 1987 ) have argued that at least part of this decline in the US may be attributed to demographic factors i.e. to a declining number of young males . |
| 23 | On stylistic grounds other northern castles built or rebuilt at this time may be attributed to him , notably Raby and Sheriff Hutton ( 1382 ) , and perhaps also Lumley in county Durham and Wressle , Yorkshire . |
| 24 | Part of the extraordinary success of this book may be attributed to skilful marketing — of part-issues between 1859 and 1861 , the illustrated edition in 1861 , and the cheap reissues begun by Samuel Beeton and continued by Ward , Lock , & Tyler , to whom he sold his titles after Isabella 's death . |
| 25 | The narrow definition of rape and its failure to encompass other forms of sexual assault may be attributed to the early origins of the offence . |
| 26 | However , results of at least one analysis of these statistics suggests that this association of father 's occupation with early childhood mortality may be attributed to the fact that his occupation is an indicator of household economic circumstances . |
| 27 | With the exception of genuinely unforeseen circumstances , changes in conditions may be attributed to imprecise or inadequate contract documents |
| 28 | This may be attributed to the fact that Sam has co-written and produced this album , a standard which many women artist seem to be setting . |
| 29 | The low efficiency of transformation with human tumour DNA may be attributed to the several reasons . |