Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] attributed to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy to assume that any significant , gender-linked difference should be attributed to the general operation of gender roles . |
| 2 | All this would have been unthinkable in the 1930s ; though , as Paul Addison has pointed out , there were signs that a progressivist tide of ‘ middle opinion ’ was rising gently , nevertheless the speed with which these developments occurred after 1940 must be attributed to the peculiar conditions brought about by the war . |
| 3 | That there was , none the less , some considerable support for Mary 's successful bid for the throne must be attributed to the widespread distrust of the duke and respect for the rights of legitimate succession , rather than to any general desire for a return to the papal fold . |
| 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 | For example , Darwin er , remarks , and here I quote , even in the first edition of the Origin of Species , I distinctly stated that great weight must be attributed to the inherited effects of use and disuse , with respect both to the body and the mind . |
| 6 | Hence , if the mental lexicon consists of a semantic system and a phonological system , priming effects must be attributed to the semantic system . |
| 7 | As Webster points out , ‘ To dissever the week from the lunar month , to employ it as a recognized calendrical unit , and to fix upon one day of that week for the exercises of religion were momentous innovations which , until evidence to the contrary is found , must be attributed to the Hebrew people alone . ’ |
| 8 | Population attributable risks , not adjusted for other factors , estimate the proportion of deaths explained by exposure to the risk factor , and the relative attributable risks estimate the percentage of the excess risk in Maori , compared with non-Maori , which could be attributed to a higher exposure to the risk factor in Maori children . |
| 9 | He believed that if the distribution of an artefact type could be attributed to a particular race it could indicate the course of the invasion and settlement of England and the origins of the settlers on the Continent . |
| 10 | The DES ( 1984b ) reports some work to identify a link between the proportion entering higher education of those qualified ( QPI ) and unemployment , and conclude from some aggregate level analyses that if these results are valid they imply that much of 2.1 per cent rise in QPI in 1981/82 could be attributed to the total increase in unemployment — from 1.8 million to 2.7 million between July , 1980 and July , 1981 . |
| 11 | Three of 11 patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy ( 27% ) had a gastric emptying test considered abnormal according to the criteria of Feldman and coworkers and our own normal values , although none of these patients had symptoms that could be attributed to the late gastric emptying . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Much of this ( though not all ) could be attributed to the poorer socio-economic circumstances , loss of a parent , family isolation and curtailed parent-child interaction ( Osborn et al . , |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The low efficiency of transformation with human tumour DNA may be attributed to the several reasons . |
| 17 | We conclude , from equation ( 5 ) , that the overall entropy change can be attributed to a mean entropic cost per rotor of ∼6 kJ mol -1 ( TΔS at 300 K ) . |
| 18 | Morton , in collaboration with others , has argued , from 1966 to the present time , that in the Pauline corpus only Romans , 1 and 2 Corinthians , and Galatians form a homogeneous group which can be attributed to a single hand . |
| 19 | It is at this stage , with a primary definition of ‘ goodness ’ established , that the relationship between ‘ goodness ’ and the concept of the Created God can now be considered , so that the full contribution to the definition of that God which can be attributed to the Second Period , can be evaluated . |
| 20 | The euro-dollar market 's origin and development can be attributed to the following interrelated economic , financial and political factors . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Changes in the number of households may be broken down into those which can be attributed to the changing numbers in each age group and those attributable to changes in headship rates . |
| 23 | The greater incidence of digestion on maxillary incisors can be attributed to the greater breakage of the maxillae . |
| 24 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 25 | But not all the blame can be attributed to the high degree of neve . |
| 26 | This can be attributed to the narrower intrinsic width of the source emission line , which is less than 0·01 eV , and to the lower energy of the ejected electrons . |
| 27 | ‘ Probably the relatively low level of heavy commitment in the case of mortgages ’ , stated the Office of Fair Trading report Overindebtedness ( July 1989 ) , ‘ can be attributed to the detailed investigation into incomes and other circumstances which usually precedes the granting of a mortgage . ’ |
| 28 | Though there is no reason to think that the kings of Cyrene had actually helped Inaros at the beginning of the revolt , the fall of the Persian-backed Cyrenaean monarchy at about this period can be attributed to the infectious restlessness of Egypt next door , cp. below , p. 61 . |
| 29 | The revised plan resulted in a total saving of $2 b.o.e. of which 50 cents can be attributed to the horizontal wells . |
| 30 | The deviations of real gases from ideal gas behaviour can be attributed to the attractive forces between gas molecules ; the volume of a gas molecule ( the kinetic theory assumes this is negligible ) . |