Example sentences of "[be] [adv] attribute to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The greater absolute numbers of elderly people have been absorbed by the growing private sector despite a simultaneous collapse of long term provision in the NHS , and this has been widely attributed to the impact of the central government funding system for private residential care .
2 The third group comprises the European fossils that are mostly attributed to the genus Dryopithecus .
3 This type of work represents a hidden shift of resources into the community because its considerable costs are generally attributed to the budget for psychiatric hospitals .
4 Although stratospheric ozone losses following volcanic eruptions are generally attributed to the presence of sulphate aerosol , we present model calculations which demonstrate that gas-phase sulphur chemistry may have played a part in the tropical ozone perturbations that followed the Pinatubo eruption .
5 The real origins of the law centre movement are usually attributed to the publication of pamphlets by the lawyers of the Conservative and Labour parties and the individual initiative of pioneers who became impatient at the slowness of the official bodies to respond to the pressure for change .
6 ‘ People ’ , he said , ‘ are our most important asset and recent successes are clearly attributed to the expertise and motivation at every level ’ .
7 Therefore the observed O 3 changes can not be entirely attributed to the Mount Pinatubo eruption .
8 Thermodynamic data indicate that single strands of DNA and RNA form single stranded helices in solution that are associated with large adverse entropy changes that can be largely attributed to the cost of ordering the phosphate backbone .
9 In fact , it seems likely that many of the studies of memory for arousing stimuli ( e.g. Christianson & Loftus , 1991 ; Christianson et al. , 1991 ) are not showing any effects at all which should be directly attributed to the subject 's general level of arousal .
10 Mr Maginnis claimed the only extra costs , which could be directly attributed to the terrorist campaign , were weekly allowances of £44.58 for officers and £39.01 for NCOs and privates .
11 Without the benefit of the results from a random allocation study based on experimental and control groups , second thoughts about how much of the two out of three success rate can be directly attributed to the AEC are inevitable .
12 Siegel ( 1972 ) reports that pre-exposure to a tone in rabbits leads to a loss of the OR ( evident as a decline in the likelihood of occurrence of an eye-opening response evoked by the novel tone ) but the latent inhibition that was also found can not be directly attributed to the loss of this aspect of the OR .
13 * The reason for the imbalance may be partly attributed to the policy of allocating pupils to mathematics sets .
14 His chances of improving sufficiently to hold down his job were poor and … only a modest sum can be fairly attributed to the loss of this chance .
15 In other words , any increases or decreases can not be solely attributed to the effects of economic integration .
16 This is in agreement with the previous findings that the increase in the alcohol consumption in Finland has been particularly attributed to the increase in the number of heavy drinkers , and that the heavy drinkers are the group that may be more vulnerable to pancreatitis .
17 So I am here attributing to the kingfisher ‘ knowledge how ’ rather than ‘ knowledge that ’ .
18 These are then attributed to the variable being studied — the new course .
19 Since the normal , non-mutant gene does not cause the cultured mouse cells to become cancerous , the cancer-causing properties of the bladder tumour gene were naturally attributed to the mutation .
20 Similarly , the relatively slow growth of labour productivity and high level of unit costs in the post-war period of growth ( between the crossroads of the 1930s/1940s and those of 1970s/1980s ) were largely attributed to the character of management and labour , employers and unions , within the UK and to the internal policies of the state .
21 On the rare occasions when French and Vietminh met and when local concessions might have helped at least to improve the atmosphere — for example the release of hostages taken by Vietminh — the Vietminh for their part denied all knowledge that any had been taken while violent incidents were either attributed to the forces outwith their control , which may well have been true , or else to the anger of the people which , again , may have been true but did not improve matters .
22 Too many contemporary social problems are conveniently attributed to the media but , in the case of public disorder , some blame is clearly justified .
23 It has long been known that the activity of these geothermal systems is intermittent , and this is generally attributed to the effect of magmatic intrusions or fault motions .
24 The development of a specifically Croatian literature in Dalmatia is normally attributed to the high-born , Italian-educated Marko Marulić ( 1450–1524 ) from Split , although many of his predecessors and contemporaries spoke Croatian and were aware of the vernacular tradition .
25 Referring back to the aggregate supply curve derivation in Fig. 10–5 , it is that is usually attributed to the Keynesians .
26 In one form — the earliest is usually attributed to the Boston Consulting Group , USA — a 3 × 3 matrix is set up on the two axes as in Figure 2.4 .
27 The intellectual property contained in the paper is communicated to an audience , but its ownership is clearly attributed to the author , and accepted by that audience .
28 The phenomenon of crumbling historic buildings , greatly accelerated in the twentieth century , is also attributed to the blight of acid rain .
29 In Oe. radiatum infections in cattle , the pathogenic effect is also attributed to the nodules ( up to 5.0 mm in diameter ) in the intestine and it appears that as few as 500 larvae are sufficient to produce clinical signs .
30 An even more radical view , advocated by those who favour less rather than more regulation of conflicts of interest , is one which is often attributed to the Chicago school .
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