Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb mod] be attributed to " in BNC.

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1 Thus the changing nature of physics can be attributed to the changing states , or to changing observables , or to some mixture of responsibility between the two of them .
2 Most goldfish keepers would agree that most , if not all of their problems of fish losses and loss of condition can be attributed to poor water quality .
3 But , of course , the question of just how much in terms of autonomy can be attributed to separatism can never be definitively answered .
4 When contracted with the legitimacy of abortion , this difference in attitude must be attributed to the changed status of the child as before and after birth .
5 The thesis comes into its own with respect to industrial policy where significant discontinuities in policy can be attributed to the government changing hands .
6 The reason for this apparent discrepancy is not obvious but the reduced secretory response in pancreatitis could be attributed to the marked fall in the pancreatic blood flow and to the reduction in the number of viable acinar cells in the pancreas .
7 Much of the blame for their slide in popularity could be attributed to ‘ Cabinet ministers arguing over their official residences , and backbench Tory MPs taking an independent line to further their own political careers ’ .
8 Any change in position could be attributed to external factors , and so a defence of one 's own consistency could be mounted , whilst apparently changing sides from loyalism to republicanism .
9 Lucinda believes that much of her success when riding cross country can be attributed to walking the course correctly , and throughout the video she leads the viewer from the start to the finish of a cross country course .
10 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 .
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