Example sentences of "[prep] be attribute to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where a company is accused of a crime the acts and intentions of those who are the directing minds and will of the company are to be attributed to the company . |
| 2 | Where a company is accused of a crime the acts and intentions of those who are the directing minds and will of the company are to be attributed to the company . |
| 3 | ‘ The process vulgarly described as robbing peter to pay paul ’ , he said , ‘ is not a principle of equity , nor is it , I think , lightly to be attributed to the Legislature even in an Irish Land Act . ’ |
| 4 | For some 2,000 years great significance continued to be attributed to the number four . |
| 5 | This seems to be attributed to the mechanisation of mankind which he visualises . |
| 6 | According to the corpuscular theory these secondary ( and tertiary ) qualities arise from the arrangement , the ‘ texture ’ , of the solid , shaped , and mobile corpuscles which constitute gold , and so are not to be attributed to the corpuscles themselves . |
| 7 | The actual source of life is not known and is not to be attributed to the God that mankind can worship , that is , a definable God developed with life , and therefore not responsible for its origin . |