Example sentences of "be [vb pp] at [art] door [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In popular terms more responsibility for Britain 's lack of international competitiveness has been laid at the door of trade unions than at that of management ; an attitude strongly encouraged by the high political profile which unions have adopted since 1945 . |
| 2 | Any remaining tickets can be bought at the door on the night of the demonstration . |
| 3 | ‘ It is obvious that responsibility for 100 years of decline of UK plc must be laid at the door of the Establishment which purported to guide the affairs of the nation , ’ Peter Morgan told them in a speech which commanded wide attention . |
| 4 | Much of the blame must be laid at the door of the disorganised America 's Cup Organising Committee , who for the past 10 months have been on the brink of bankruptcy . |
| 5 | Plainly this confusion can not be laid at the door of the petitioner . |
| 6 | John Pain also had vivid memories of this occasion : ‘ Once again the loss of a pilot could be laid at the door of the A.V.M. He was still insisting that the most senior officer led the flight . |
| 7 | Some of the confusion can be laid at the door of the word ‘ profitability ’ . |
| 8 | In fact , Charles 's highly publicized conversion to vegetarianism can more properly be laid at the door of his former bodyguard , Paul Officer who frequently argued with him during long car journeys about the virtues of a non-meat diet . |
| 9 | The blame , she felt , should be laid at the door of ‘ the planners who are playing too safe to the provincial market … ’ |
| 10 | If I was not similarly open , it is merely because my embarrassments can only be laid at the door of my own folly , and not to the workings of chance . ’ |
| 11 | Her description of my flat is one that I had difficulty in recognising : ‘ We were greeted at the door by Arnold 's housekeeper , Miss Roberts . |
| 12 | Moreover , it had become clear from the opinion polls that the unpopularity of the new tax was being laid at the door of the government which had introduced it , rather than the local authorities who were responsible for levying and collecting it . |
| 13 | This is a charge increasingly being laid at the door of city governments when disbursing federal grants by , amongst others , Dommel and Rich ( 1987 ) , Fainstein and Fainstein ( 1986 ) and Strickland and Judd ( 1983 ) . |
| 14 | There 's no end to the ailments which are now being laid at the door of stress . |
| 15 | Blame for this fiasco is being laid at the door of everyone from teachers to examiners . |
| 16 | It was reported that over-ripe tomatoes and some oldish eggs had been tossed at the door of two southern commercial stations , which was a smear tactic we deplored with emphasis . |
| 17 | Young men and underclass men in general are also portrayed in disparaging terms in the book , even though the explanation for their behaviour ( criminality , violence , drugs , hanging round pool halls , lick of responsibility for offspring ) is placed at the door of external forces . |
| 18 | He is stopped at the door by an emaciated woman with a grotesque burn injury , whom I have not seen before . |
| 19 | The prime minister is met at the door of the Palace at 6.30 on Tuesday evenings by the Queen 's private secretary , and ushered into the royal drawing room by a footman . |
| 20 | Either way ( and the suspicion must be that some historians are determined to have it either way ) , blame for the collapse of the Carolingian state is laid at the door of the Frankish nobility . |
| 21 | He was joined at the door by his wife and daughter . |
| 22 | Once he went to the house in Stone Alley and was met at the door by Maggie Byrne , but she only wanted to talk about the undersized child in her arms whose life he had saved . |
| 23 | I was met at the door by the commander of the bodyguard , who introduced me to the domestic staff — the cooks , the maids , the rest of the bodyguard and the gardener . |
| 24 | As it was , she was greeted at the door of the ramshackle house by a complete stranger , a young man who looked at her oddly . |