Example sentences of "[was/were] blame for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Probably the first time that tsunami were blamed for a particular deposit was in Sir Edward Bailey 's brilliant exposition of the origin of the Upper Jurassic boulder beds in eastern Scotland , discussed in the last chapter . |
2 | Since 1965 , when the Communist party of Indonesia was blamed for an attempted coup and banned , and hundreds of thousands of communists were killed or sent to prison , the legal instrument most often used to curb political offences has been the Anti-Subversion Law . |
3 | The War Ministry was blamed for the desperate shortage of arms and ammunition during the first two years of the war , and for the tardiness with which domestic industry was harnessed to war production . |
4 | The Brotherhood is still active today , not only in Egypt where it is prominent in university life , but in Jordan and Syria ( where it was blamed for the 1982 uprising at Hama ) . |
5 | They used a ‘ Whose fault ? ’ technique , in which children were asked who was to blame for an unsuccessful piece of communication — e.g. , where the listener 's choice of referent did not match that of the speaker . |
6 | The PFA refused to specify who was to blame for the red tape , though here have been differences in the past with nearby RAF Lyneham over airspace . |
7 | And who was to blame for the high interest rates ? |