Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] blame for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IMF boss Michel Camdessus praised Germany 's tough policies and insisted that its interest rates were not to blame for the chaos . |
| 2 | Their father made it clear they were not to blame for the situation and today neither recalls feeling guilty . |
| 3 | The minister said that employers were also to blame for the fall-off in recruits , describing them as ‘ much less supportive ’ of part-time soldiers than they were in the past . |
| 4 | If Washington was determined to show that Pan Am 's deficiencies were solely to blame for the bombing , Pan Am 's only defence was to show that Washington was at least equally at fault . |
| 5 | I always thought he was largely to blame for the relegation in 1982 . |
| 6 | However , sections of the press saw this as an attempt to suppress the investigation 's key finding : that police insensitivity and mismanagement was largely to blame for the evening 's confrontation ( cf. |
| 7 | But in a statement to an inquest in Bishop Auckland yesterday , Jacob Blenkinsop , of Northam Close , Stainton Park , Middlesbrough , said truck driver Ian Burrige was not to blame for the accident near Sedgefield on March 5 . |
| 8 | A FREAK gas accident was yesterday blamed for the death of brilliant young golfer Paul Hurring and his ‘ angelic ’ girlfriend . |
| 9 | A FREAK gas accident was yesterday blamed for the death of brilliant young golfer Paul Hurring and his girlfriend . |
| 10 | The slump in household saving , from 14% of disposable income in 1980 to just 5% last year , was partly to blame for the rise in inflation that now plagues the government . |
| 11 | For example , Friedan ( 1983 ) believed that it was the ‘ feminine mystique ’ which prevented women from leading successful public lives ; the education system was partly to blame for the ideology of the feminine mystique , but equally the solution for women who were trapped in their roles as wives and mothers was to return to college to obtain an education . |
| 12 | Diego Maradona was partly to blame for the brawl between Sevilla and Cadiz players at the end of Sunday 's Spanish league match , according to police . |
| 13 | In common with many other Latin American countries , it was the weakness of technical and administrative institutions in charge of peasant agriculture that was partly to blame for the failure of a rural development policy . |
| 14 | While recognizing that poor local economic management was partly to blame for the region 's debt crisis , the report argued that what it described as the banks ' irresponsible lending practices meant they should also share responsibility and assume greater losses . |