Example sentences of "[modal v] be attributed to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This area is further complicated by the dilemma concerning the importance which should be attributed to factors which are not physiological , but psychological . |
| 3 | But it is difficult to know whether their defence of the Masai in such cases should be attributed to the peculiarly seductive qualities of this people , or to the well-documented tendency of District Officers throughout British Africa to become closely identified , in a paternal and proprietary way , with the interests of ‘ their ’ tribe . |
| 4 | It is easy to assume that any significant , gender-linked difference should be attributed to the general operation of gender roles . |
| 5 | With studies of metabolic activity there are still problems with calculating how much of the radioactivity in any part of the brain should be attributed to the utilization of metabolic fuels by the areas concerned , rather than simple uptake . |
| 6 | These three genera seem to form a natural grouping ( Box 2 ) and in the past they have been confused with one another : in commenting on the original description of the Buluk specimens , Deslon suggested that they should be attributed to Kenyapithecus ( rather than to Sivapithecus , as they then were ) , and in an addendum to their original description of Heliopithecus , Andrews and Martin recognized the affinities of that genus to Afropithecus , which was published just before Heliopithecus . |
| 7 | ( 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 ) . |
| 8 | ( 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 ) . |
| 9 | Furthermore , the extent to which the underlying cause of inefficient diversification should be attributed to growth inspired by risk aversion , as opposed to growth resulting from other managerialist motives , is unclear . |
| 10 | However , not all blame for an unsatisfactory situation should be attributed to the musicians and their training . |
| 11 | If a cohort of patients with diabetes shows poor control this study has found little evidence that it should be attributed to factors specific to non-diabetic patients . |
| 12 | Thus difference should be attributed to other factors . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As Webster points out , ‘ To dissever the week from the lunar month , to employ it as a recognized calendrical unit , and to fix upon one day of that week for the exercises of religion were momentous innovations which , until evidence to the contrary is found , must be attributed to the Hebrew people alone . ’ |
| 16 | When contracted with the legitimacy of abortion , this difference in attitude must be attributed to the changed status of the child as before and after birth . |
| 17 | That there was , none the less , some considerable support for Mary 's successful bid for the throne must be attributed to the widespread distrust of the duke and respect for the rights of legitimate succession , rather than to any general desire for a return to the papal fold . |
| 18 | This is true irrespective of whether the animal is able to communicate with its conspecifics — either by way of warning-cries , mating-calls , and the like , or by means of a syntactically-structured language whose meaning is determined by social conventions rather than by fixed genetic mechanisms , The point is that even much non-communicative behaviour has to be understood in computational terms , such that internal symbolic processes must be attributed to the creature . |
| 19 | Hence , if the mental lexicon consists of a semantic system and a phonological system , priming effects must be attributed to the semantic system . |
| 20 | All this would have been unthinkable in the 1930s ; though , as Paul Addison has pointed out , there were signs that a progressivist tide of ‘ middle opinion ’ was rising gently , nevertheless the speed with which these developments occurred after 1940 must be attributed to the peculiar conditions brought about by the war . |
| 21 | For example , Darwin er , remarks , and here I quote , even in the first edition of the Origin of Species , I distinctly stated that great weight must be attributed to the inherited effects of use and disuse , with respect both to the body and the mind . |
| 22 | This might be attributed to cyclotron resonance induced in human body cells by weak electromagnetic fields . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In contrast , any misfortune which might happen to a person accused before a spirit might be attributed to sorcery . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | The linguistic acrobatics these words perform in Rusty 's mind and the various interpretations which might be attributed to the results are of less consequence in and of themselves than the fact that this performance demonstrates verbal operations of a logic other than that attributed to the rational mind . |
| 28 | In general there is evidence of positive net benefits for employers but that a large proportion of further employment which might be attributed to the scheme restricts employment of other potential employees . |
| 29 | As the severity of histological changes in the pancreas in response to caerulein such as the vacuolisation of acinar cells and the rise in plasma amylase concentrations were already significant at the third hour of infusion , it is obvious that the decline in the exocrine secretory activity might be attributed to the damage of acinar cells . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |