Example sentences of "could [adv] be attribute to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After landing , the aircraft was found to have split fabric and extensive minor damage to the wings , which could only be attributed to overstressing at high speed . |
| 2 | In other words , although the Formalists took a very important step in making language central to their definition of literature , their theoretical shortcomings could largely be attributed to their failure to extend a theory of language to other spheres . |
| 3 | Although evil could not be attributed to Ahura Mazdah , its existence had to be accounted for , and Zarathustra explained it in terms of free will . |
| 4 | This occurred , he believed , despite the household 's ‘ sufficiency of income ’ and therefore could not be attributed to the same causes as ‘ primary poverty ’ . |
| 5 | Bjornsson went on to study the newspapers of 11 countries , and found substantial differences , which he argued could not be attributed to the idiosyncrasies of the languages . |
| 6 | This effect could not be attributed to different patterns of intonation in the two conditions ( Zurif and Mendelsohn , 1972 ) which implies that the effect was mediated at a syntactic level . |
| 7 | The analyst noted that , since these were first time pregnancies , the increase in complications with age could not be attributed to parity . |
| 8 | Eight failed to do so because of a recurrence of their disease that could not be attributed to any particular food constituent . |
| 9 | 6 Corporate systems must be aligned to support TQM : Two of the great pioneers of total quality management , Edwards Deming and J.H. Juran , whose work had great influence on Japanese companies after the Second World War , discovered that quality problems were usually built into the design of production processes and could not be attributed to the ill-will or incompetence of workers . |
| 10 | Symptoms of hypotension include tiredness , light-headedness or dizziness and fainting , all of which could easily be attributed to other complaints . |
| 11 | This improvement in health could possibly be attributed to the novelty value of having a new puppy or kitten in the house . |
| 12 | The panic attacks gave her the perfect excuse , as no blame could possibly be attributed to her . |
| 13 | For example , even in the relatively active period in which Liebowitz and Horowitz were writing , only a minute proportion of total crime could conceivably be attributed to marginal political groups ' expressing themselves in conventional criminal activity . |
| 14 | In 1990 , the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys has told me , there were 150 deaths in England and Wales that could reasonably be attributed to liver failure after paracetamol overdosage , and of these , 119 were either certain or probable suicides . |