Example sentences of "are blame for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Problems in Japan are blamed for the setback . |
| 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 | Businessmen and politicians ( often the same people ) are blamed for overspending on prestige projects — including the president 's $250 million basilica — and for luxurious living . |
| 4 | Many things are blamed for poor blackgrass control and there is a growing tendency to condemn herbicide resistance . |
| 5 | Inter-departmental squabbles are blamed for failures in India ( Bali 1974 ; Ranganathan 1978 ) . |
| 6 | Single-parent families , that is mothers , are blamed for continuing this process , producing a culture of dependency and poverty in that their children are said to grow up with poor interpersonal skills , low educational achievement , and lack of marketable skills . |
| 7 | Galway which yielded silver until their closure in 1980 , are blamed for the death of livestock . |
| 8 | The usual outcome is that the weaker , more dependent individuals are blamed for family problems . |
| 9 | It is , therefore , not surprising to find in Luke that it is the Jews who are blamed for the death of Jesus . |
| 10 | The four factors of bad conditions , overcrowding , understaffing and staff unrest are blamed for poor security . |
| 11 | Although world trends are blamed for our present problems , to a certain extent they result from bad legislation . |
| 12 | Although world trends are blamed for much of the plight of the unemployed , some blame must lie in bad fiscal policy . |
| 13 | Too often minority students themselves are blamed for their failure . |
| 14 | Emissions of nitrogen oxides from vehicles are blamed for much of the dramatic increase in asthma , particularly among children where one in seven suffers from the disease . |
| 15 | Frosts and flooding are blamed for causing the damage on more than three thousand miles of the county 's roads . |
| 16 | Local unions said overwork , fears about job security and poor management support are blamed for the staff crisis . |
| 17 | Nowadays the victims are blamed for being vulnerable . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Sewage works , farming , industry in general and drought are blamed for the declining quality of our rivers , canals and estuaries . |
| 20 | Books , and the words they contain , are blamed for causing hatred and sorrow in the world . |
| 21 | You said at an earlier stage in this conversation erm that it 's always the defeated parties who are blamed for starting wars . |
| 22 | If we resent this ( as we should ) , we ought to realize that it is we who are to blame for it . |
| 23 | Both sides are to blame for failing to put this land-for-peace formula into practice . |
| 24 | The equipment needs to be checked for any signs of wear and tear well in advance , since if anything breaks in a race it is ultimately you who are to blame for not foreseeing it . |
| 25 | ‘ How can I understand it , how can I understand it ? ’ he went on and on accusingly , as though scientists are to blame for not inventing a magic serum that would give him instant knowledge . |
| 26 | Individual chemicals can then be tested to discover which ones are to blame for the symptoms . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ I take the strongest objection to the suggestion that anyone other than the Daily Mirror themselves are to blame for the Crown Prosecution decision that there is insufficient evidence to prosecute Lucy Marshall for drugs offences . ’ |
| 29 | They are to blame for what I am , and they know it — They hug their flatness like a kind of health . |
| 30 | They are to blame for the misery and squalor . |