Example sentences of "be blamed on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government is concerned that most of the disappearances are blamed on the security forces . |
| 2 | Italy 's ills of corruption , maladministration and government irresponsibility are blamed on the extreme form of proportional representation brought in as antidote to Mussolini 's dictatorship . |
| 3 | Some of the deaths are blamed on polonium , an element whose presence during the accident was deliberately kept secret at the time because of its military sensitivity . |
| 4 | In the wildernesses all across Canada and the USA an average of 13 human deaths a year are blamed on the bears . |
| 5 | Many ailments which are blamed on old age could be avoided if everyone ate a healthy diet . |
| 6 | The job losses are blamed on the recession . |
| 7 | The losses are blamed on the lack of research cash and the need to reorganise , but union leaders says the cuts are cosmetic and unnecessary and they may consider industrial action . |
| 8 | Much of the violence has been blamed on mysterious ‘ vigilantes ’ who have attacked township commuters refusing to pay their fares in solidarity with the strikers . |
| 9 | The cash crisis has been blamed on the recession and a breakdown in negotiations with the county council . |
| 10 | Thus the major cyclic changes in Jurassic sedimentation ( and possibly even the changes of faunal and floral evolution ) have been blamed on eustatic changes in sea-level , and these in turn on epeirogenic movements on the ocean floor . |
| 11 | The fires , which are concentrated on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo , have been blamed on a combination of four months of low rainfall and the after-effects of widespread logging , which have left large swathes of comparatively parched land on which fires can take hold easily and spread to secondary forest growth . |
| 12 | An airshow accident in which a Spitfire crashed in flames has been blamed on pilot error . |
| 13 | The president of the Writer 's Association , Hermann Kant , a central committee member , said the exodus of almost 50,000 refugees could not be blamed on the ‘ wicked class enemy ’ in West Germany : ‘ A defeat is a defeat even if it comes on the eve of a glorious celebration . ’ |
| 14 | A lot can be blamed on years of dictatorship and rotten planning — but not all . |
| 15 | Not all killings should be blamed on the terrorists or police . |
| 16 | One reason is that interest rates are affected by government policy , so the cost of capital can be blamed on government ( ours ) . |
| 17 | Similarly , interest rates appear open to manipulation and hard-to-prove subsidy , so differences across borders can also be blamed on governments ( theirs ) . |
| 18 | Steve Hagger , a director , says the mounting list of creditors can be blamed on the fact Brandmakers was victim of a fraud being perpetrated on companies in search of cash to help them ride the recession . |
| 19 | He would report her missing and the crime would doubtlessly be blamed on some tramp or itinerate worker . |
| 20 | Perhaps it could also be blamed on having flicked past hundreds of dull photos of them in The Scots Magazine over the years , showing old men with their shirt sleeves rolled up , pointing at some rolling , lumpy , big hills with the caption reading , ‘ The mighty Cairngorms are a sight for sore eyes in any rambler 's book ’ . |
| 21 | Can the problems of urban poverty be blamed on individual pathology ? |
| 22 | Can his death really be blamed on a cricket ball ? |
| 23 | Much may be blamed on the impermeable Alan Beith , who has been at Berwick since 1973 and thinks nothing to striding round five villages , after starting on Holy Island in the sort of rain that suggests God getting out the strap , and then darting up to Duns in what was Berwickshire , Scotland , to do a broadcast . |
| 24 | It ca n't be blamed on the unions or the last Labour Government . |
| 25 | Like aggression , it may be blamed on attack by a predatory spirit . |
| 26 | In part , the fading lustre of famous names can be blamed on the economic downturn of the 1990s . |
| 27 | The current division of powers between the central Board of Education and the 32 local boards encourages buck-passing ( problems can always be blamed on somebody else ) without either reducing bureaucracy ( the central board still employs almost 4,000 people ) or devolving power to individual schools . |
| 28 | That a decision may turn out to have this ultimate effect can hardly be blamed on the decider , who is unable to see that far ahead . |
| 29 | These may also be responsible for the associated climatic phenomena and may be blamed on the effects of plate tectonics with the rise and fall of mid-ocean ridges and the displacement of water by the piling up and erosion of new orogenic belts . |
| 30 | It has recently been argued very convincingly that the Cenomanian transgression can be blamed On a pulse of rapid ocean-floor spreading with the expansion of the mid-ocean ridges and consequent displacement of water . |