Example sentences of "easy to blame the " in BNC.

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1 Then when we have a difficult relationship at home or work it 's easier to blame the other person than look at what we did .
2 It is easy to blame the pressure of daily life and the stress it causes for the fact that we do not feel as well as we should like — and , indeed , in many cases an excess of stress and tension may be the cause .
3 Even the least sophisticated found it easy to blame the chronic unemployment which afflicted Britain on the war .
4 Insp Barry said : ‘ It would be easy to blame the parents , but they seem to have made reasonable efforts to bring him up properly .
5 It is all too easy to blame the unions , to argue that they must know perfectly well that the effect of excessive wage settlements is inflationary but that they nevertheless still seek and get them .
6 It is easy to blame the machine , the computer or the system — but somewhere along the line a human being operated that machine , programmed that computer , used that system .
7 But to these targets needs to be added an analysis of what must be achieved in order to obtain them , in terms of both the behaviour and attitude of consumers : and of more functional matters such as ( for example ) greatly improved distribution — to put it in what is , from the agency 's point of view , the most defensive way possible , it is too easy to blame the advertising when the sales force has failed to achieve the necessary levels of retail distribution to support the required sales .
8 It had been a bad year for Cliff , and it was as easy to blame the Council as anyone .
9 The strain and tension created by constant difficulties can lead to other problems and it can be hard to sort out which came first ; it is all too easy to blame the surface symptoms of child neglect or indebtedness on irresponsible parenthood rather than on an unjust social system .
10 It is understandable that the public , disillusioned by what the system produces , find it easy to blame the producers .
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