Example sentences of "be attribute to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is at this stage , with a primary definition of ‘ goodness ’ established , that the relationship between ‘ goodness ’ and the concept of the Created God can now be considered , so that the full contribution to the definition of that God which can be attributed to the Second Period , can be evaluated . |
| 2 | Nor can the elimination of two year waits be attributed to the internal market . |
| 3 | Thus the changing nature of physics can be attributed to the changing states , or to changing observables , or to some mixture of responsibility between the two of them . |
| 4 | Changes in the number of households may be broken down into those which can be attributed to the changing numbers in each age group and those attributable to changes in headship rates . |
| 5 | The narrow definition of rape and its failure to encompass other forms of sexual assault may be attributed to the early origins of the offence . |
| 6 | Clearly this can not be a process completed during initial training but equally clearly it can not be attributed to the sole responsibility of academic or in-service courses . |
| 7 | The DES ( 1984b ) reports some work to identify a link between the proportion entering higher education of those qualified ( QPI ) and unemployment , and conclude from some aggregate level analyses that if these results are valid they imply that much of 2.1 per cent rise in QPI in 1981/82 could be attributed to the total increase in unemployment — from 1.8 million to 2.7 million between July , 1980 and July , 1981 . |
| 8 | It is easy to assume that any significant , gender-linked difference should be attributed to the general operation of gender roles . |
| 9 | The greater incidence of digestion on maxillary incisors can be attributed to the greater breakage of the maxillae . |
| 10 | This was the kind of language that used to be attributed to the sharper end of the second-hand book world . |
| 11 | It has been suggested that the rapid increase in the Muslim population during this period can not be attributed to the mass conversion of Bogomils , as the greatest increases were recorded in the areas where Bogomils were fewer in number , especially in the towns . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The low efficiency of transformation with human tumour DNA may be attributed to the several reasons . |
| 14 | The deviations of real gases from ideal gas behaviour can be attributed to the attractive forces between gas molecules ; the volume of a gas molecule ( the kinetic theory assumes this is negligible ) . |
| 15 | Much of the complexity of the normal form can be attributed to the potential nondeterminism of occam programs . |
| 16 | The reason for this apparent discrepancy is not obvious but the reduced secretory response in pancreatitis could be attributed to the marked fall in the pancreatic blood flow and to the reduction in the number of viable acinar cells in the pancreas . |
| 17 | Though there is no reason to think that the kings of Cyrene had actually helped Inaros at the beginning of the revolt , the fall of the Persian-backed Cyrenaean monarchy at about this period can be attributed to the infectious restlessness of Egypt next door , cp. below , p. 61 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Conversely , the frequency with which disease can be attributed to the abnormal allele ( P(genotype/disease) ) decreased with age . |
| 20 | But not all the blame can be attributed to the high degree of neve . |
| 21 | ‘ Probably the relatively low level of heavy commitment in the case of mortgages ’ , stated the Office of Fair Trading report Overindebtedness ( July 1989 ) , ‘ can be attributed to the detailed investigation into incomes and other circumstances which usually precedes the granting of a mortgage . ’ |
| 22 | Much of the credit for the high standard of this performance has to be attributed to the forceful singing of Westdeutscher Rundfunk Choir , a pro-Cordes 's highest notes betray an occasional sense of strain . |
| 23 | The revised plan resulted in a total saving of $2 b.o.e. of which 50 cents can be attributed to the horizontal wells . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This occurred , he believed , despite the household 's ‘ sufficiency of income ’ and therefore could not be attributed to the same causes as ‘ primary poverty ’ . |
| 28 | The reasons for the widespread development of the particular form of alphabetic literacy evident in Greece must clearly be sought in the social structure ; Goody and Watt , however , insist that ‘ considerable importance must surely be attributed to the intrinsic advantages of the Greek adaptation of the Semitic alphabet , an adaptation which made it the first comprehensively and exclusively phonetic system tor transcribing human speech ’ ( ibid. pp. 40–1 ) . |
| 29 | Hence , if the mental lexicon consists of a semantic system and a phonological system , priming effects must be attributed to the semantic system . |
| 30 | 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 . |