Example sentences of "can [adv] be ascribed to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is wide agreement that the recent forest damage can predominantly be ascribed to atmospheric pollution even if there remains uncertainty concerning which pollutants are to blame at which locations and what the response mechanisms are for triggering damage , as well as over how the contributing natural stress factors should be weighted ( Hinrichsen , 1986 ) . |
| 2 | In a situation of monopoly power , the profits which a company makes will contain an element which can only be ascribed to the use of monopoly power by that company . |
| 3 | But Lloyd George underestimated the soundness of that edifice ; and the fact that the sinews of government did not atrophy after the British departure can largely be ascribed to the tradition of service personified by ‘ Rag ’ Pillai . |
| 4 | If there is an element of design on Pechorin 's part in the duel he fights , an element which incorporates a knowledge of the loaded dice to be employed by his opponent in the form of an unloaded pistol , the outcome can still be ascribed to chance , in a sense that must be meant to characterise the hero 's fine indifference . |
| 5 | The sacrifice of formal organization to dramatic tension in the pictures has raised doubts about their attribution to the Alexis Master , but this characteristic can probably be ascribed to the natural evolution of his style . |
| 6 | The decrease in the pace of urban-rural movement in the late 1970s can partly be ascribed to some of the same factors working in reverse . |
| 7 | The adjective must of course be one which can plausibly be ascribed to the entity of the subject if the whole is to be grammatically acceptable . |