Example sentences of "[adv] [be] laid at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I was not similarly open , it is merely because my embarrassments can only be laid at the door of my own folly , and not to the workings of chance . ’ |
| 2 | Rob Engels , UK managing director , referred to the loss as ‘ minor ’ and said the blame could not be laid at the UK 's door as this subsidiary has exceeded its targets ; rather it is continental Europe that is down on its figures . |
| 3 | Plainly this confusion can not be laid at the door of the petitioner . |
| 4 | Blame can not be laid at the doorstep of any single photographer , designer , journalist or editor — this is not intended as a smug pop at our predecessors , nor a dig at individuals . |
| 5 | There have been numerous suggestions of increased numbers of racial attacks , many supposedly attributable directly or indirectly to the BNP 's presence , although racial attacks in many parts of London are , and have long been , so numerous ( and usually unreported ) that only a tiny fraction even of the most serious could ever be laid at the BNP 's door . |
| 6 | In fact , Charles 's highly publicized conversion to vegetarianism can more properly be laid at the door of his former bodyguard , Paul Officer who frequently argued with him during long car journeys about the virtues of a non-meat diet . |
| 7 | Of course , the same fault should then be laid at the sceptics ' door . |