Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] [be] attribute to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be attributed to the fact that the city 's traders were not swamped by the growth of the larger British companies during the colonial period , that among the merchant families involved in the kola nut trade , two generations were common , and that merchant families in Kano were particularly successful from the early 1960s at forming links with overseas companies , not least with those from the Far East . |
| 2 | In part , this may be attributed to Watergate and related scandals , but those events by no means provide a complete explanation . |
| 3 | This may be attributed to the fact that Sam has co-written and produced this album , a standard which many women artist seem to be setting . |
| 4 | This might be attributed to cyclotron resonance induced in human body cells by weak electromagnetic fields . |
| 5 | It was not that this could be attributed to a weakening of moral fibre on their part , but rather that they had grown up in a society in which there were few straightforward moral guidelines , and into ‘ a community which is thoroughly confused about morals , and … their behaviour reflects that confusion ’ . |
| 6 | I have witnessed many occasions when foreigners have unintentionally caused misunderstanding or even offence in speaking to an English person , but can remember very few occasions when this could be attributed to ‘ using the wrong intonation ’ except when a mistake caused a difference in apparent grammatical meaning ( something that is dealt with in the next chapter ) . |
| 7 | You have doubtless heard from time to time some little of my movements on this side of the globe and if I have not written more fully and frequently to my friends in England I trust this will be attributed to the very pressing engagements which have fully occupied my time and mind . |
| 8 | This can be attributed to a number of factors : the increased availability of street heroin in Wirral during the early 1980s ; the periodic droughts of pot and speed at around about the same time ( some of the users suggested a direct relation between these phenomena ) ; the existence of large numbers of users initiated in the 1978–81 period who acted both as models to emulate and who were also probably the first dealers the new initiates came into contact with . |
| 9 | On the one hand this can be attributed to an unwillingness by politicians to provide for a greater disclosure of information . |
| 10 | With hindsight , this can be attributed to the inadequacies of his principle of inertia and of his lack of a clear conception of gravity as a force . |
| 11 | This can be attributed to the narrower intrinsic width of the source emission line , which is less than 0·01 eV , and to the lower energy of the ejected electrons . |
| 12 | This can be attributed to an intramolecular chair-chair transition in the ring . |
| 13 | This can be attributed to its various physical properties . |
| 14 | In part this can be attributed to the diverse scopes that have been claimed for sociolinguistics ( see Trudgill , 1978 : Introduction ) , but in part it comes about because sociolinguists are interested in inter-relations between language and society however these are manifested in grammatical systems : sociolinguistics is not a component or level of a grammar in the way that syntax , semantics , phonology and , quite plausibly , pragmatics are . |
| 15 | It was one thing to offer hospitality , quite another to extend the boundaries of tolerant understanding to dark moods and sudden rages , even when these could be attributed to horrific experiences in earlier childhood . |
| 16 | Some of these can be attributed to the subject matter for study itself ( ‘ the objects of study are so utterly different that they require fundamentally different methods and forms of explanation and understanding ’ Benton 1977 : 12 ) . |
| 17 | Nine people died from infectious diseases in the district last year , said Miss Pattinson , although not all could be attributed to food poisoning . |