Example sentences of "could [be] attributed to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To some extent , the demoralisation and poverty of spirit I had encountered could be attributed to the misfortunes of geography ; to the fact that Czechoslovakia had such ruthless neighbours as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | As priority was given to the undergraduate course in information retrieval during the first year and other conditions remained nearly constant , any changes in the pattern of the use of Chalmers Library during that time could be attributed to the effects of the course of instruction . |
| 3 | The low usage rates for LGS were disappointing , but could be attributed to the findings of the village case study described above . |
| 4 | Much of this ( though not all ) could be attributed to the poorer socio-economic circumstances , loss of a parent , family isolation and curtailed parent-child interaction ( Osborn et al . , |
| 5 | Each of the practices reported some improvement in the provision of hospital care or practice services that they felt could be attributed to the acquisition of fundholding status . |
| 6 | It revealed a sorry state of affairs in schools which could be attributed to the cuts in educational spending — something that proved embarrassing to the government of the day . |
| 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 | Mary MacArthur , a leading woman trade unionist , believed that these figures could be attributed to the ‘ treble strain of child-bearing , wage-earning and household drudgery ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Three of 11 patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy ( 27% ) had a gastric emptying test considered abnormal according to the criteria of Feldman and coworkers and our own normal values , although none of these patients had symptoms that could be attributed to the late gastric emptying . |
| 11 | According to the health board , significant differences were found between the two groups in some symptoms like eye , throat and skin irritation , headaches and nausea , which could be attributed to the spill . |