Example sentences of "may [be] blame [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BLUNDERING birdwatchers may be to blame for the failure of England 's only breeding pair of Golden Eagles to produce chicks for the first time in four years . |
| 2 | External factors may be blamed for the general depression of mood and blamed for various damaging consequences but no connection may be made between the depressed mood and damaging consequences and the continuing use of the substance or behaviour of addiction . |
| 3 | Externalisation or blaming — The stresses and strains of a particular job or having too much money , or alternatively too little , may be blamed for alcoholism or drug addiction or other form of addictive disease , despite the fact that these problems are widespread throughout the whole of society . |
| 4 | Much may be blamed on the impermeable Alan Beith , who has been at Berwick since 1973 and thinks nothing to striding round five villages , after starting on Holy Island in the sort of rain that suggests God getting out the strap , and then darting up to Duns in what was Berwickshire , Scotland , to do a broadcast . |
| 5 | Like aggression , it may be blamed on attack by a predatory spirit . |
| 6 | These may also be responsible for the associated climatic phenomena and may be blamed on the effects of plate tectonics with the rise and fall of mid-ocean ridges and the displacement of water by the piling up and erosion of new orogenic belts . |
| 7 | Certainly one is the last straw , and may be blamed as the exciting factor . |