Example sentences of "[adv] [be] attribute to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite why some of the leading golfers in the world started to behave like 18 handicap amateurs can only be attributed to the special pressures which the Ryder Cup produces . |
| 2 | The warnings ( like those on the packets ) will no longer be attributed to the Chief Medical Officers , except the strongest warning , ‘ Smoking Kills ’ , to which the industry took special exception . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Clearly this can not be a process completed during initial training but equally clearly it can not be attributed to the sole responsibility of academic or in-service courses . |
| 5 | It has been suggested that the rapid increase in the Muslim population during this period can not be attributed to the mass conversion of Bogomils , as the greatest increases were recorded in the areas where Bogomils were fewer in number , especially in the towns . |
| 6 | No practical purpose has ever been attributed to the four-sided blocks with tubular perforations and grooved corners ( zong ) ( fig. 13 ) that appeared already in the Neolithic culture of east China , and the same applies to the animal amulets of Shang times . |
| 7 | The effect has also been attributed to the putative comet 's tail , a less plausible explanation . |
| 8 | The concept of Time as a judge can also be attributed to the great Athenian statesman Solon ( sixth century BC ) who , according to Werner Jaeger , ‘ defends himself ‘ before the bench of Time'' ’ . |
| 9 | If , as was clear from press coverage of the recent retrospective at the Hayward , the art critical establishment is still sniffily disparaging of Magritte 's achievement , this can at least partly be attributed to the disturbing facility with which his images have been appropriated by advertisers and recycled as mere media commonplaces . |
| 10 | The reasons for the widespread development of the particular form of alphabetic literacy evident in Greece must clearly be sought in the social structure ; Goody and Watt , however , insist that ‘ considerable importance must surely be attributed to the intrinsic advantages of the Greek adaptation of the Semitic alphabet , an adaptation which made it the first comprehensively and exclusively phonetic system tor transcribing human speech ’ ( ibid. pp. 40–1 ) . |
| 11 | In studies on such membranes isolated after partial hepatectomy or TAGH infusion , EGF induced less receptor phosphorylation than in normal membranes : reduced EGF induced autophosphorylation of the EGF receptor in membranes from the livers of hepatectomised rats has previously been attributed to the reduced receptor density on such membranes . |