Example sentences of "[vb mod] be attribute to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus difference should be attributed to other factors . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) It is difficult to know how far the success of the project should be attributed to the project itself and how far it should be attributed to those events which preceded it and provided an environment in which the project could flourish ( or wither ) . |
| 3 | Climate and economics need to be included because these factors may well determine features which at first sight might be attributed to ethnic or cultural factors . |
| 4 | Where research studies have been carried out in different parts of the country it is difficult to disentangle anything which might be attributed to regional variations specifically , from other systematic variations by gender , class , ethnicity or variations over time ( that is where changes in patterns of family relationships have occurred between the 1960s and the 1980s ) . |
| 5 | Any change in position could be attributed to external factors , and so a defence of one 's own consistency could be mounted , whilst apparently changing sides from loyalism to republicanism . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The effect of the drugs on their length of life was very difficult to judge , and small differences could be attributed to many incidental causes , such as differences in smoking , dietary habits , the amount of exercise they took , or to changes in all these habits over the years . |
| 8 | They were asked to participate only if they had no history of gastrointestinal diseases or abdominal surgery other than appendectomy , and if they had no symptoms that could be attributed to gastrintestinal motility disorders . |
| 9 | It may be that some couples cohabit initially because they are uncertain about the strength of their relationship so their subsequent marital breakdown could be attributed to these underlying doubts , rather than the ‘ destructive ’ experience of cohabitation . |
| 10 | Anomalies indicated by the large standard deviations in Table 5 for the larger time delays could be attributed to some of the subjects attempting to rehearse the letters using some mnemonic technique while performing the distractive task . |
| 11 | There was no consensus about whether or not this high rate reflected a higher amount of crime , or if the difference could be attributed to false cases in Sri Lanka or the failure to report crime in India . |
| 12 | One study carried out in Canada showed that 20 per cent of cases could be attributed to true IgE-mediated allergy to food . |
| 13 | Only in Orkney did this response receive a low rating which could be attributed to most of the people interviewed having been brought up on a farm and having the confidence that usually goes hand in hand with experience . |
| 14 | Although some of this variation may be attributed to inherent reliability problems in the computation method or original poor data quality , other geological factors probably account for the greater part of the observed variation . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | With the exception of genuinely unforeseen circumstances , changes in conditions may be attributed to imprecise or inadequate contract documents |
| 17 | Part of the extraordinary success of this book may be attributed to skilful marketing — of part-issues between 1859 and 1861 , the illustrated edition in 1861 , and the cheap reissues begun by Samuel Beeton and continued by Ward , Lock , & Tyler , to whom he sold his titles after Isabella 's death . |
| 18 | Steffensmeier and Harer ( 1987 ) have argued that at least part of this decline in the US may be attributed to demographic factors i.e. to a declining number of young males . |
| 19 | Though some of the deaths may be attributed to associated severe injuries , a delay in diagnosis contributes to the high mortality . |
| 20 | Other forms of mental handicap may be attributed to genetic factors , where the fusion of the parents ' genes creates an irregularity in the chromosomal mix . |
| 21 | Particular features and style may be attributed to this object to specify the number of doors , type of seats , colour of paintwork etc . |
| 22 | As Struhsaker ( 1969 ) pointed out , uncertainties and irregularities in attempts to allocate primate species to socio-ecological grades may be attributed to phylogenetic heritage . |
| 23 | Great Yarmouth 's lead over its hinterland may be attributed to maritime enterprise , its fisheries in particular . |
| 24 | Halpern ( 1986 ) derides their apparent conviction that ‘ it is frightening and perhaps even unAmerican to consider the possibility that even a small part of the sex differences in spatial abilities ( or any cognitive ability ) , may be attributed to biological factors ’ ( 1986 : 1014 ) . |
| 25 | For between the basic drives that may be attributed to human nature and the social structures of human culture there enters a critical indeterminacy . |
| 26 | Different characteristics and qualities may be attributed to different social categories of humans , accompanied perhaps by different moral demands , and proper account must be taken of these in the study of behaviour . |
| 27 | Since the relative concentration of hydrocarbons remains relatively constant over this maturity range , the increased wetness of the Tertiary gases can be attributed to higher C&sub4+ ; concentrations . |
| 28 | Most goldfish keepers would agree that most , if not all of their problems of fish losses and loss of condition can be attributed to poor water quality . |
| 29 | It is considered , therefore , that the excess of isolated incisors is real and can be attributed to preferential destruction of upper and lower jaws . |
| 30 | Studies of rural migration have largely neglected these factors although Dunn ( 1979 ) has shown that a substantial amount of short-distance movement in rural areas can be attributed to changing housing needs . |