Example sentences of "[noun] [be] blame for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Hungary , for example , the Germans are to blame for the Hungarian Holocaust , the ‘ Russians ’ for Soviet communism and now , in some circles , the Jews for the failures of capitalism . |
| 2 | Opinion polls now show that employers are blamed for Britain 's economic problems and union are more popular than at any time in their history . |
| 3 | Local unions said overwork , fears about job security and poor management support are blamed for the staff crisis . |
| 4 | Vandalism and theft are to blame for the 23pc rise . |
| 5 | What 's called a Norwegian list , w , quite why the Norwegians are blamed for this I do n't know , er , and the idea with a Norwegian list , is that you have , you put the problem on the left-hand side if you 're right-handed , and then you would brain-storm the solutions for that on the right-hand side . |
| 6 | Nor can Edward be blamed for not foreseeing the ends to which Gloucester might put his power . |
| 7 | Nor can Edward be blamed for not foreseeing the ends to which Gloucester might put his power . |
| 8 | The schools were blamed for this and new courses — such as TVEI ( Technical and Vocational Educational Initiative ) and CPVE ( Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education ) — were introduced into schools themselves as well as into the gap between school and work . |
| 9 | In Florence , where black itinerant traders were blamed for increased petty crime and were viewed by local traders as a source of unfair competition , a number of violent incidents took place . |
| 10 | Civilian ministries were blamed for failing to ensure adequate supplies of food , for chronic shortages of every kind , for the endless queues . |
| 11 | Chauthala 's supporters were blamed for much of the fraud , and his continued survival as Chief Minister during March and April reflected his father 's influence at the central level . |
| 12 | Recent studies suggest that ozone depletion is to blame for widespread blindness among sheep in southern Chile , on the edge of the Antarctic ozone hole . |
| 13 | Gill net fishing is blamed for the unintentional deaths of between 1,200 and 2,800 harbour porpoises every year in the Gulf of Maine alone . |
| 14 | Since 1965 , when the Communist party of Indonesia was blamed for an attempted coup and banned , and hundreds of thousands of communists were killed or sent to prison , the legal instrument most often used to curb political offences has been the Anti-Subversion Law . |
| 15 | Inter-departmental squabbles are blamed for failures in India ( Bali 1974 ; Ranganathan 1978 ) . |
| 16 | A few days before a new election was due to take place , at the beginning of March , a mysterious fire destroyed the Reichstag and the Communists were blamed for that outrage . |
| 17 | Accounting errors were to blame for eight kg , but the plant was shut down and part of it cleaned out to find the rest . |
| 18 | I like to remind myself , from time to time , of Lord Macnaghten 's remark that he did not think that the framers of the Irish Land Act were to blame for not assuming that a judge would go out of his way to derogate from the rights of a third person who had nothing whatever to do with the matter in hand . |
| 19 | A few days later the previous owners sent her pedigree and a short letter , explaining that their grandchildren were to blame for Sorrel 's temper . |
| 20 | This does not exclude negative judgements on Roman individuals who showed themselves inferior to normal standards of prudence or wisdom : even Claudius Marcellus is blamed for his lack of prudence ( 10.32.7–52 ) . |
| 21 | Insufficient funding and poor management is blamed for low staff morale , encouraging many of those employed in the park service to co-operate with the poachers . |
| 22 | Similarly , he claims that a powerful test in China in May was to blame for various natural disasters in Central Asia and an earthquake in California . |
| 23 | The four factors of bad conditions , overcrowding , understaffing and staff unrest are blamed for poor security . |
| 24 | The usual outcome is that the weaker , more dependent individuals are blamed for family problems . |
| 25 | OMON personnel [ see below ] stationed in Latvia were blamed for the attacks , in which the posts were burned down and several customs officials were beaten up . |
| 26 | Only the Palestinians were to blame for its destruction . |
| 27 | Deterioration of market conditions and higher fixed costs were blamed for the decline . |
| 28 | In a pre-scheduled address to an international banking conference attended by the Czech and Slovak finance ministers where he was to have delivered a lecture on setting up direct sales operations in Eastern Europe , Kontrax president Gabor Dixco told an embarrassed audience that the global recession , poor financial management and lack of support from the banks were to blame for the company 's collapse . |
| 29 | So , if you believe the shop is to blame for the stain on your coat , you 're entitled to claim compensation for its value . |
| 30 | Last week , to reinforce its case , it brought the President of the European Commission , Gaston Thorn , to Baden-Wurttemberg , where acid rain is blamed for damage to some 64000 ha of firs and pines in the Black Forest . |