Example sentences of "[noun sg] can be attributed [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The impact of this approach on physical geography can be attributed to the ways in which these four types of system could rationalize physical geography endeavour , and could catalyse the introduction of new concepts especially concerned with temporal change .
3 The law has some part to play in stimulating directors to take appropriate action in these areas by imposing liability where loss can be attributed to a failure on the part of the board to ensure that the company is equipped with an adequate organisational structure .
4 But not all the blame can be attributed to the high degree of neve .
5 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 .
6 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 ) .
7 Much of the frantic activity in the share register can be attributed to the arbitrageurs rather than the titans of the motor industry .
8 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 ) .
9 The euro-dollar market 's origin and development can be attributed to the following interrelated economic , financial and political factors .
10 The thesis comes into its own with respect to industrial policy where significant discontinuities in policy can be attributed to the government changing hands .
11 Said Mound : ‘ Without doubt , the success can be attributed to the integration of the subsurface team who moulded the comprehensive database bequeathed by a laboured appraisal programme into a highly tuned reservoir management tool . ’
12 This criticism is based ( a ) on comparisons with other countries such as West Germany and Japan ( Vittas 1986 ) , where banks play a much larger role in industrial financing ; ( b ) on an assumption that bad industrial performance can be attributed to a lack of finance ; and ( c ) on a certain dissatisfaction with consistently high levels of bank profitability .
13 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 .
14 The Symon Unconformity has been picked at the base of a thin coal sequence which might correspond to the Phillipsii Chronozone of the upper Westphalian C. Thus a limited gas potential can be attributed to the base of the Barren Measures sequence .
15 Much of its strength can be attributed to the vigorous support of the church , which has always placed the family at the centre of Christian living .
16 Much of the complexity of the normal form can be attributed to the potential nondeterminism of occam programs .
17 Some of this increase can be attributed to the evaporation of remaining nitric acid from the condensed phase as temperatures rise .
18 Once again , however , Communist inability to consolidate this position can be attributed to a combination of swift and effective repression of Communism in Latin America ( partly a response to their increased support , partly due to the onset of the Cold War and the pro-US orientation of most Latin American regimes in the late 1940s and 1950s ) and failures in tactics by the parties .
19 Much of the growth achieved in the UK over the past year can be attributed to the consultancy division , but worldwide , Andersen Consulting 's growth has slowed .
20 In contrast to the preceding period , none of this rise can be attributed to the investment of current account surpluses .
21 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 ) .
22 This paper trail can be attributed to the demands made on electronically stored information by local and national governments , companies , charities , service providers ( e.g. medical staff ) , and individuals .
23 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 .
24 Conversation is fast , and to some extent this failure of the foreign language learner can be attributed to the slow processing of language knowledge .
25 Conversely , the frequency with which disease can be attributed to the abnormal allele ( P(genotype/disease) ) decreased with age .
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