Example sentences of "is blamed [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is blamed on the land users themselves , who are seen to have mismanaged the environment because of lack of environmental awareness , ignorance , apathy and just plain laziness . |
| 2 | Much of the pollution in West Germany is blamed on France . |
| 3 | Nissan 's £75 million loss between March and September is blamed on the world recession . |
| 4 | There is always a reason for each batch of redundancies — it is done in the name of greater efficiency or due to changing economic conditions or is blamed on world recession . |
| 5 | The fact that it was proved to be an overestimate is blamed on various horrors which took place on the paper 's route to market . |
| 6 | The reproduction failure is blamed on a shortage of adult birds to defend colonies against predators . |
| 7 | The problem is blamed on a sudden rise in emergency admissions . |
| 8 | The continuing slide is blamed on the effects of the recession on glass markets and prices , particularly in construction and car manufacturing industries . |
| 9 | Northumberland County Council has vowed to investigate the problem , which is blamed on the county 's peripheral position in the country . |
| 10 | Nathan is a swinger , who is blamed for whoring after and mistreating gentile women . |
| 11 | Since the politician is blamed for what is not his fault , he could n't survive unless he devised methods of blaming other people for what is his fault . |
| 12 | The heavy use of pesticides and chemicals in agriculture in Azerbaijan and the Central Asian republics is blamed for the high incidence of leukaemia , some of the worst infant mortality rates in the world , and liver disorders and cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 13 | If the player tampers with those , he is blamed for hitting a sour note , not praised for a daring interpretation . |
| 14 | He is blamed for the Tories ' allegedly disastrous campaign . |
| 15 | The regime is blamed for a rise in corruption , Mafia crime , public debt and a lack of public responsibility . |
| 16 | Even in 1848 , the prejudice of the Irish — rather than the behaviour of the British — is blamed for their reluctance to see the Chartist movement as the means to their liberation : |
| 17 | Last week , to reinforce its case , it brought the President of the European Commission , Gaston Thorn , to Baden-Wurttemberg , where acid rain is blamed for damage to some 64000 ha of firs and pines in the Black Forest . |
| 18 | LORD LAWSON was in charge of the Treasury before Norman Lamont and is blamed for the boom which was followed by the present bust . |
| 19 | WORLD recession is blamed for the problems in our own economy but only a minority of people in the country accept that . |
| 20 | The company , which offers the Stacker family of data compression products for personal computers , has been unsettled by Microsoft Corp 's inclusion of compression in MS-DOS 6 , which is blamed for the job cuts . |
| 21 | Central Office complains that the government is blamed for recession but gets no credit for recovery . |
| 22 | He is blamed for ordering the army crackdown on pro-democracy students in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 . |
| 23 | At the same time he is blamed for allowing the incident to arise when it is usually inconceivable that he could have prevented it . |
| 24 | Her international trade negotiations are already hindered by Norway 's attitude to whaling and sealing , and she is blamed for poor results . |
| 25 | This does not exclude negative judgements on Roman individuals who showed themselves inferior to normal standards of prudence or wisdom : even Claudius Marcellus is blamed for his lack of prudence ( 10.32.7–52 ) . |
| 26 | Acidic emissions from mines and industrial plant in the area is blamed for the decay of forests and plant life in Lapland — which stretches across Norway , Sweden and Finland and into the Soviet Union . |
| 27 | Insufficient funding and poor management is blamed for low staff morale , encouraging many of those employed in the park service to co-operate with the poachers . |
| 28 | The poisonous effects of pollution from farm chemicals is blamed for the species ' demise . |
| 29 | Gill net fishing is blamed for the unintentional deaths of between 1,200 and 2,800 harbour porpoises every year in the Gulf of Maine alone . |
| 30 | EC is blamed for farmers ' ‘ losses ’ |