Example sentences of "be attributed to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader may be disappointed by the standard of what is written , but unlike other sites of criticism , this can not be attributed to the form of publication , only to the limitations of the author . |
| 2 | There is far less of the mystification which can be attributed to the account of the troubles in Guerrillas : what we get is the mysterious politics of forest and township as observed by an outsider , by an African Asian who understands a good deal of what is going on . |
| 3 | The poem and novel I have attributed to them respectively can also , for certain purposes , be attributed to them both . |
| 4 | Part of this independence must be attributed to their ownership of houses and schools , paid for directly by their benefactors , payers of school fees , or investment funds . |
| 5 | After landing , the aircraft was found to have split fabric and extensive minor damage to the wings , which could only be attributed to overstressing at high speed . |
| 6 | The fault can not be attributed to a draughting error because the 2N3904 and BC546 are npn transistors and the circuit will pass only 5mA when 2.7V is between A and B. |
| 7 | This might be attributed to cyclotron resonance induced in human body cells by weak electromagnetic fields . |
| 8 | Much of the frantic activity in the share register can be attributed to the arbitrageurs rather than the titans of the motor industry . |
| 9 | Much of the blame for their slide in popularity could be attributed to ‘ Cabinet ministers arguing over their official residences , and backbench Tory MPs taking an independent line to further their own political careers ’ . |
| 10 | The Japanese launch was a success , although it is open to question how much of the success can be attributed to innovative marketing and how much to the technical qualities of the product . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A significant , though not decisive , part of the low return to aid projects in Africa can be attributed to corruption in the award of contracts . |
| 13 | Symptoms of hypotension include tiredness , light-headedness or dizziness and fainting , all of which could easily be attributed to other complaints . |
| 14 | Unless you were there , you ca n't know whether a film 's failings should be attributed to the writer 's incompetence or the director simply misunderstanding the script . |
| 15 | In part , the emerging entente must be attributed to the authorities ' move to the right , towards the Kinnockite orthodoxy favoured by Margaret Hodge , the Islington and ALA leader . |
| 16 | One part of this myopia can doubtless be attributed to simple electoral panic . |
| 17 | According to the corpuscular theory these secondary ( and tertiary ) qualities arise from the arrangement , the ‘ texture ’ , of the solid , shaped , and mobile corpuscles which constitute gold , and so are not to be attributed to the corpuscles themselves . |
| 18 | Thinking and perceiving , which might naturally be attributed to an incorporeal mind , are simply complex motions in matter . |
| 19 | That a range of quarries was exploited in the Mediterranean area is not in doubt , but particular sculpted pieces can not always be attributed to particular quarries on purely visual grounds . |
| 20 | Little of that spirit of unity could , however , be attributed to the activities of the Communist party . |
| 21 | Much of his extraordinary combination of speed and stamina can be attributed to his physique . |
| 22 | The crime was paradoxical , namely , the mere profession of Christianity , the name itself , rather than any crimes that might be attributed to the name by association . |
| 23 | Some African coins used to be attributed to the Numidian King Jugurtha ( 118–105BC ) , but the discovery of a hoard at Enna in Sicily in 1966 showed that these coins were actually contemporary with the period of democracy at Syracuse in 214–212BC , and the coins could therefore be redated and attributed to the Carthaginian expedition against Sicily in 213–210 BC . |
| 24 | Third , debasement of early medieval coinage in western Europe and the eventual replacement of gold by silver can be attributed to the cessation of the flow of gold bullion from east to west with the abandonment of gold subsidies paid by the Byzantine empire to the barbarians in the west . |
| 25 | To some extent , the demoralisation and poverty of spirit I had encountered could be attributed to the misfortunes of geography ; to the fact that Czechoslovakia had such ruthless neighbours as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union . |
| 26 | ‘ Cash or stock were owed to the client and problems could be attributed to inadequacies in the member 's administrative procedures . ’ |
| 27 | The reaction to Richardson can be attributed to three factors — a rumour that supposed friction between him and Jamaica 's Jeffrey Dujon led to Dujon 's omission from the World Cup ; another rumour that Richardson passed some remark about Jamaicans after the Dujon affair ; and that Richardson described the historic World Cup encounter with South Africa as ‘ just another cricket match ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ There is now not the slightest doubt that a part of the increased number of cancer cases can be attributed to the effects of the many new chemicals present in the environment ’ , he reported . |
| 30 | They characterise the management of secondary schools as having a number of features — many of which may be attributed to the absence of effective staff management policies . |