Example sentences of "[be] [adv] attribute to the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | * The reason for the imbalance may be partly attributed to the policy of allocating pupils to mathematics sets . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So I am here attributing to the kingfisher ‘ knowledge how ’ rather than ‘ knowledge that ’ . |
| 16 | These are then attributed to the variable being studied — the new course . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The phenomenon of crumbling historic buildings , greatly accelerated in the twentieth century , is also attributed to the blight of acid rain . |
| 23 | This action is commonly attributed to the fear of the working class stirred up by the course of events in France . |
| 24 | Given Foix 's Haus-machtpolitik at this time , a desire to dominate the south-west by annexing further territories was easily attributed to the count . |
| 25 | The Rwandan armed forces numbered only 5,000 , and the containment of the rebellion was largely attributed to the presence of 300 French and 535 Belgian troops dispatched by their governments on Oct. 4 , ostensibly to protect their citizens . |
| 26 | The upsurge in violence was partly attributed to the unbanning of the ANC , and its implications for the ANC 's rival , the predominantly Zulu movement Inkatha . |
| 27 | As bass notes were reproduced very weakly , the bass line was often attributed to the tuba , which had more higher-frequency harmonics ; these could be recognized on playback as constituting a ‘ bass line ’ . |
| 28 | The drawing was firmly attributed to the artist when it was last sold in Munich in 1938 , but was believed lost in the last war . |
| 29 | When her red boots stepped on to the pavement the shock which smacked into her was conveniently attributed to the cold . |
| 30 | That false report was falsely attributed to The Economist in order , we are flattered to suppose , to give it a wholly undeserved credibility . |