Example sentences of "be attributed to [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 This sad state of affairs may be attributed to feckless parents or to a society which projects its standards and values in such an ambivalent way .
2 Tivoli 's boss , ex-IBMer Frank Moss , believes that in many organisations up to 40% of the cost of owning Unix kit can be attributed to managing systems that are distributed across networks .
3 Tivoli 's boss , ex-IBMer Frank Moss , believes that in many organisations up to 40% of the cost of owning Unix kit can be attributed to managing systems that are distributed across networks .
4 The Japanese launch was a success , although it is open to question how much of the success can be attributed to innovative marketing and how much to the technical qualities of the product .
5 For between the basic drives that may be attributed to human nature and the social structures of human culture there enters a critical indeterminacy .
6 What may in the first instance be attributed to physical causes and treated by an herbalist may , if it persists or grows more severe , be redefined as caused by mystical forces requiring treatment by a diviner ( see Horton 1970 : 142 ) .
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