Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] attributed to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The goals commonly attributed to management , in no particular order , are status , power , salary , and security .
2 Practically all the separate functions traditionally attributed to intonation ( attitudinal , accentual and grammatical ) could be seen as different aspects of discourse function .
3 Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw .
4 But the case has been greatly overstated in some popular publications , and genuine psychological problems wrongly attributed to food sensitivity , both by patients and fringe practitioners .
5 A further possibly important mechanism in rock breakdown associated with freezing , at least in very fine-grained lithologies , is hydration shattering ( see Section 6.3.1 ) and it is likely that some of the effects of physical weathering previously attributed to frost weathering in fact result from this process .
6 Polls reveal the public to be far more forgiving of Clinton 's debut difficulties than the press and fellow politicians , with his flops charitably attributed to unfamiliarity with the job .
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