Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] blame for the " 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 | He believed she was to blame for the tide of scandal enveloping the Royal Family . |
| 6 | It was unclear last night who was to blame for the deluge — the 28-year-old prince himself or a forgetful aide . |
| 7 | And who was to blame for the high interest rates ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Investigators concluded that no one was to blame for the blaze started by a spotlight overheating a curtain . |
| 10 | The official report says no one was to blame for the fire , which started after a halogen lamp overheated near a curtain . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Moreover , the child may feel unreasonable guilt that , somehow , it was to blame for the death . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |