Example sentences of "be attribute [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the incidence and mortality of prostate cancer are increasing faster than can be attributed simply to the increasing age of the population . |
| 2 | We must find some way of ‘ taking out ’ of our calculations that fraction of brain that can be attributed simply to body size , so that we can compare what is left over as the true ‘ braininess ’ of animals . |
| 3 | At a superficial level , this failure to meet housing needs could be attributed simply to ‘ the recession ’ that has afflicted western capitalist economies since the early seventies . |
| 4 | Consequently a positive result , if it had been obtained , could not be attributed unambiguously to the presence of the vertical perspective cues . |
| 5 | Based on the current structure , however , this low p K a can be attributed instead to the positive dipole moment at the N terminus of the α -A helix as His15 N-caps the α -A helix and the side chains of His15 and Arg17 are far apart . |
| 6 | These examples of ambiguity , of the switching of resources , and of corruption explain some of the failures of aid which can be attributed primarily to the recipients . |
| 7 | The second reaction is the likelihood , indeed near certainty , of what will happen if urban discontent , crime and violence increase : this will be attributed not to the social situation but to the inferior , even criminal , disposition of the people involved . |
| 8 | For the moment we may note that the success of the Major Project within a school can not be attributed exclusively to the staff therein . |
| 9 | The great change which followed can be attributed partly to changes in social beliefs and attitudes in the 1950s and 1960s , and partly to the success of three strands of investigation , which began more or less independently but soon converged . |
| 10 | Similarly , an unexpectedly low price will be attributed partly to a negative aggregate demand shock and partly to a negative relative demand shock . |
| 11 | The cause may be attributed either to internal factors ( self ) or external factors ( others , the world ) and to stable factors ( such as ability or task difficulty ) or unstable factors ( such as luck ) . |
| 12 | The changes in exports and imports of manufactures , for example , can not be attributed only to a failure , or in some cases success , of British managers and workers ; and the rise in ( portfolio ) investment overseas by UK banks and finance houses is not explicable in terms of the propensities of British bankers or the character of the UK banking system alone . |
| 13 | We therefore might expect cultural changes to have greatly outstripped our slowly changing evolutionary heritage , in which case our present behaviour should be attributed more to the process of cultural , than of genetical , evolution . |
| 14 | Yet the degree of integration of drainage patterns shown in some arid regions seems altogether too high to be attributed merely to Pleistocene pluvial periods . |
| 15 | Here then the trust remains valid , but since the passage of the actual trust object into the hands of a third person can be attributed directly to the testator and his debts , no execution in rem is allowed . |
| 16 | I use the word ‘ disease ’ loosely here as , as we shall see in a moment , it may not be attributed directly to a disease infection . |
| 17 | Its rise can be attributed mainly to increased productivity of cereals and grasses from increased mechanisation and fertilisers , both of which depend on fossil fuel , therefore using capital to grow more cereals and grasses . |
| 18 | The collapse of trust in government that occurred in the 1970s can not be attributed entirely to Watergate ; the trend was established before 1973 . |
| 19 | Of course , even if consideration is restricted to essentially short-term factors , Mrs Thatcher 's poor performance in the ballot can not be attributed solely to the strategy and tactics of the respective campaigns . |
| 20 | That rate of : wage inflation which can be attributed solely to union militancy can be regarded as resulting from the power struggle between unions and employers for a bigger share of the national ‘ cake ’ and between the unions themselves for higher places in the wages ‘ league table ’ . |
| 21 | But concern as widespread as this can not be attributed solely to the work of one man , however challenging his ideas : the times were propitious too . |
| 22 | Pubertal stage can have a major effect but the lower IGF-I concentrations in the children with growth failure could not be attributed solely to the greater proportion of sexually mature children in the well grown group . |
| 23 | Differences between north and south can not , however , be attributed solely to Scandinavian influence . |