Example sentences of "attributed to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the normal , non-mutant gene does not cause the cultured mouse cells to become cancerous , the cancer-causing properties of the bladder tumour gene were naturally attributed to the mutation . |
| 2 | This in turn describes the function of the individual in relation to society — any agency attributed to the individual is subordinated to the maintenance of social structure . |
| 3 | Third , debasement of early medieval coinage in western Europe and the eventual replacement of gold by silver can be attributed to the cessation of the flow of gold bullion from east to west with the abandonment of gold subsidies paid by the Byzantine empire to the barbarians in the west . |
| 4 | The lack of advance on our part should not be attributed to the idleness of a century , much rather to the genius of Maxwell . |
| 5 | ‘ The process vulgarly described as robbing peter to pay paul ’ , he said , ‘ is not a principle of equity , nor is it , I think , lightly to be attributed to the Legislature even in an Irish Land Act . ’ |
| 6 | In the accounts of industrial action one reads about in newspapers or sees on television , the cause of a dispute will usually be attributed to the issue over which work relations broke down . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The crime was paradoxical , namely , the mere profession of Christianity , the name itself , rather than any crimes that might be attributed to the name by association . |
| 9 | A recent assessment of Beccaria has portrayed him as a cautious conservative who successfully redirected enlightenment thinking away from a potentially much more radical path : ‘ His sudden fame can be attributed to the relief of educated society that it was possible to hold rational ‘ enlightened ’ views on human behaviour without having to accept radical materialism' ( Jenkins , 1984 , p. 113 ) . |
| 10 | However , there is a strong view that the guarantee should be recognised as a liability both in the parent 's individual accounts and the consolidated accounts , and , therefore , no amount would be attributed to the minority interest . |
| 11 | The price attributed to the goodwill being protected was considered as being a relevant factor ( see also Alec Lobb Limited v Total Oil GB Limited [ 1985 ] 1 WLR 173 , CA ) . |
| 12 | The results also show that most of the effect on the perceived depth can be attributed to the presence of the vertical perspective cues although the small effect of horizontal perspective cues was present in the estimates of eight out of ten observers and was statistically significant . |
| 13 | Although stratospheric ozone losses following volcanic eruptions are generally attributed to the presence of sulphate aerosol , we present model calculations which demonstrate that gas-phase sulphur chemistry may have played a part in the tropical ozone perturbations that followed the Pinatubo eruption . |
| 14 | PI SHAK RACK CHANO The retrogressive dreams of autumn attributed to the presence in the bloodstream of Pi Ki Skab We |
| 15 | The Rwandan armed forces numbered only 5,000 , and the containment of the rebellion was largely attributed to the presence of 300 French and 535 Belgian troops dispatched by their governments on Oct. 4 , ostensibly to protect their citizens . |
| 16 | While this is attributed to the presence of oligopeptides and amino acids in the former , their role in the provision of colonic luminal SCFA has not been explored . |
| 17 | More recently , the appointment of Vial has been attributed to the influence of Granville Penn , who seems to have taken the Frenchman uncritically at his own valuation . |
| 18 | The desacralization of nature that has taken place in the West may be attributed to the influence of Christianity . |
| 19 | Some parents get upset when they come for help with their child when a therapist starts to investigate their marital relationship , particularly if the child 's problems are all attributed to the marriage . |
| 20 | Emission reductions since the early 1970s are attributed to the installation of pollution control equipment , technological improvements , reduced activity in some industries such as iron and steel ( figure 8.9 ) and the use of cleaner fuels in residential areas . |
| 21 | The earliest piece in the collection is an Attic black-figure neck-amphora attributed to the Affecter Painter ( dated 530–520 BC , lot 3 , est. £60,000–90,000 ) . |
| 22 | The phenomenon of crumbling historic buildings , greatly accelerated in the twentieth century , is also attributed to the blight of acid rain . |
| 23 | The third group comprises the European fossils that are mostly attributed to the genus Dryopithecus . |
| 24 | In arctic and alpine environments the surface is often seen to be composed of a layer of angular rock fragments commonly described by the term felsenmeer and attributed to the operation of frost weathering . |
| 25 | The drawing was firmly attributed to the artist when it was last sold in Munich in 1938 , but was believed lost in the last war . |
| 26 | A phase of acute unemployment is likely to have supervened ; it was certainly alleged to be rife by 1525 when it was put forward as the precipitant of the riots against the levying of the Amicable Grant — the tax of one-sixth on the valuations of 1522 by which Wolsey sought to make good the disappointing yield of the subsidy — albeit attributed to the dislocation of business caused by the severity of taxation . |
| 27 | Towards the top of the scale the relatively large number of prosperous husbandmen must be taken as reflecting the high overall level of wealth reinforced by the demand of the manufacturing population for food ; at the lower end the paucity of £2 assessments can almost certainly be attributed to the cottage farmers having turned over to weaving and kindred trades . |
| 28 | With studies of metabolic activity there are still problems with calculating how much of the radioactivity in any part of the brain should be attributed to the utilization of metabolic fuels by the areas concerned , rather than simple uptake . |
| 29 | In the peat-swamp forest of Sarawak , the commercially important Gonystylus bancanus ( Thymelaeaceae ) is distributed by a small catfish , the strange flavour of whose flesh at different times of the year is attributed to the tree 's arils . |
| 30 | On substantive questions under the Convention , particularly whether the applicant has had a fair trial , matters of ‘ lawyer failure ’ generally do not result in a violation of the Convention because such failure can not be attributed to the State , which is the only respondent before the Commission or the Court . |