Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] [be] attributed to the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |