Example sentences of "been blamed for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The current poor economic climate has been blamed for total admissions of only 420,000 people , some 300,000 down on the 1988 total and the lowest figure since the show moved to the National Exhibition Centre from London in 1978 . |
| 2 | The Left Coalition has so far ruled out linking up with the conservatives again — the improbable alliance of last June has been blamed for much of their drop in support — but has already hinted that it would be willing to support a national unity government as proposed by the New Democrat leader Mr Constantine Mitsotakis . |
| 3 | He can count himself lucky not to have been blamed for the bounce by his political masters . |
| 4 | Tree trunks , too , have been blamed for the monster legends ( see New Scientist , vol 95 , p 354 ) . |
| 5 | As far as total dust veil is concerned , it seems to be roughly the same size as the veil from the Agung eruption , which has been blamed for cooling the northern hemisphere by about 0.3 °C in the mid-1960s.There is one key difference , though : El Chichón 's eruption occurred in the northern hemisphere , Agung 's in the south . |
| 6 | Advances in automation , the development of word-processors and the many other applications of information technology have all been blamed for rising unemployment . |
| 7 | Unemployment mixed with the political and racial problems have been blamed for the soaring crime rate . |
| 8 | Coffee has been blamed for increasing the pulse rate and for interfering with the efficiency of the digestive process . |
| 9 | It 's something both they and lesbians have always been blamed for , despite the now well-publicized fact that it is heterosexual men who commit by far the most assaults on boys , as well as girls . |
| 10 | A volcano has even been blamed for speeding up the onset of the last Ice Age . |
| 11 | Recession-hit businesses have been blamed for the slump . |
| 12 | This season Ruggia will again be travelling everywhere with his parents , even though the closeness of their relationship has often been blamed for Ruggia 's problems in communicating with his team personnel . |
| 13 | The clear-cut hillsides have been blamed for the mud avalanches that caused almost all of the deaths . |
| 14 | Three factors , which acted in regions of dry cereal farming with particular intensity , have been blamed for the low levels of productivity ; first extensive common lands ; secondly , a maldistribution of landed property — the twin problem of the latifundia and the minifundia — combined with insecure tenures and high rents ; thirdly , a type of settlement where the majority of the agricultural population lived in large villages and towns . |
| 15 | At around the same time , the effects were being felt of a new system ( introduced by the government in 1995 ) of individual budgets for each prison — in effect cash limits on what can be spent on staff in each prison — which has also been blamed for giving rise to understaffing . |
| 16 | The popularity of these films has been blamed for the emergence of Ninja gangs in Lusaka suburbs who wear black masks , carry home-made swords , iron bars , clubs and sticks which they use during burglaries and muggings . |
| 17 | Malan ignored calls in Parliament for his resignation from both the Democratic Party ( DP ) and the CP — the latter on the grounds that right-wing organizations had been blamed for what had in reality been the activities of the CCB . |
| 18 | Madougou had been blamed for an incident three weeks earlier , on Feb. 9 , when police opened fire on a demonstration in Niamey , the capital , by students protesting about the implementation of a government austerity plan for the education system , which envisaged cuts in scholarships and employment opportunities for graduates . |
| 19 | Maiga , generally considered to be Saibou 's deputy , had also been blamed for the Feb. 9 killings , and his departure was described as " in the interest of the nation and in order to restore calm " . |
| 20 | The movement was particularly strong in the north-eastern town of Suceava where it claimed credit for the closure in February of the local cellulose fabric plant , whose carbon disulphide emissions had been blamed for causing nervous disorders . |
| 21 | Meanwhile in Mali Tuaregs had been blamed for an attack on June 28-29 at Ménaka , in which some 20 people died . |
| 22 | The suspected assassin , José Sales , who was arrested later , was believed to be a professional gunman hired by local landowners who had been blamed for the murder in 1985 of his predecessor Joao Canuto . |
| 23 | OMON troops had been blamed for a series of attacks on over 20 Baltic border posts over the previous few months . |
| 24 | The UDA had been blamed for about one-third of the killings of civilians in Northern Ireland over the previous 23 years ( more than 2,000 civilians having been killed during this period ) . |
| 25 | Tight German recycling laws had been blamed for encouraging the illegal disposal of waste in neighbouring countries . |
| 26 | Poor patients/parent compliance has been blamed for less than ideal results in major series on constipation in children . |
| 27 | The nets , which can be up to 40 miles across , have also been blamed for snaring and killing thousands of sea birds , non-commercial fish and marine mammals . |
| 28 | Brackish effluent from the farms has been blamed for polluting fresh water on which rice production depends , particularly in the south of the country . |
| 29 | Over-fishing of sand eels , the terns ' staple foods , have been blamed for the decline . |
| 30 | Known as " walls of death " , drift nets have been blamed for the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of marine creatures , notably dolphins . |