Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] blame for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The leader of the council , Robert Gould , said later he accepted that the 1.5 per cent pay increase was totally unrealistic , but said the unions should be directing their anger at the Conservative Government , which was to blame for the situation . |
2 | Many appear to be infected by the phocine distemper virus , which was blamed for the epidemic which afflicted dolphins in the North Sea in 1988 . |
3 | It implies that in some way Wainwright himself was to blame for the outdatedness of some of his copious details . |
4 | It was not poor people who were to blame for the dampness but poor housing that was making the people poor . |
5 | She was blamed for a crash which killed bride-to-be Teresa Power , 26 . |
6 | He believed she was to blame for the tide of scandal enveloping the Royal Family . |
7 | They used a ‘ Whose fault ? ’ technique , in which children were asked who was to blame for an unsuccessful piece of communication — e.g. , where the listener 's choice of referent did not match that of the speaker . |
8 | It was unclear last night who was to blame for the deluge — the 28-year-old prince himself or a forgetful aide . |
9 | And who was to blame for the high interest rates ? |
10 | The PFA refused to specify who was to blame for the red tape , though here have been differences in the past with nearby RAF Lyneham over airspace . |
11 | Investigators concluded that no one was to blame for the blaze started by a spotlight overheating a curtain . |
12 | The official report says no one was to blame for the fire , which started after a halogen lamp overheated near a curtain . |
13 | Anti-fascists argued that whoever was to blame for the violence , the police and courts treated them more harshly , and the National Council for Civil Liberties certainly produced reliable testimony to back up those claims . |
14 | They used fishing rods and hooks , those cunning , black , nocturnal anglers , and they were blamed for the disappearance of booze from liquor cabinets and sugar from pantries . |
15 | That Fiji won the main prize so easily led to something of an anti-climax , but that was hardly the fault of the organisers , though they were to blame for the scant and often inaccurate team information for public and press . |
16 | Moreover , the child may feel unreasonable guilt that , somehow , it was to blame for the death . |
17 | It was withdrawn in Britain in 1973 by its director , Stanley Kubrick , after it was blamed for a string of violent crimes . |
18 | The Brotherhood is still active today , not only in Egypt where it is prominent in university life , but in Jordan and Syria ( where it was blamed for the 1982 uprising at Hama ) . |