Example sentences of "lay at [art] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whither Brecht now , on the lure of the good old days ; not to mention the nostalgia laid at the door of romantic anti-capitalism ? |
| 2 | ‘ It is obvious that responsibility for 100 years of decline of UK plc must be laid at the door of the Establishment which purported to guide the affairs of the nation , ’ Peter Morgan told them in a speech which commanded wide attention . |
| 3 | Much of the blame must be laid at the door of the disorganised America 's Cup Organising Committee , who for the past 10 months have been on the brink of bankruptcy . |
| 4 | This would seem to be unnecessarily pessimistic and may be a conclusion laid at the door of present organisational configurations in our schools . |
| 5 | Moreover , it had become clear from the opinion polls that the unpopularity of the new tax was being laid at the door of the government which had introduced it , rather than the local authorities who were responsible for levying and collecting it . |
| 6 | The charge of political bias laid at the door of critics , and the claim that their own scientific activities were neutral , leaves only one way out — to make out that the problem lies in technical factors of production that constrain maximum yield performance in maize , and not in the interrelationship between social conditions of inequality and the new technologies which CIMMYT and IRRI were developing . |
| 7 | Plainly this confusion can not be laid at the door of the petitioner . |
| 8 | The failure to produce one is naturally laid at the door of the government which has progressively weakened regional strategic planning over the past ten years , but it is also undeniable that any large scale infrastructure programme would produce massive public opposition . |
| 9 | This is a charge increasingly being laid at the door of city governments when disbursing federal grants by , amongst others , Dommel and Rich ( 1987 ) , Fainstein and Fainstein ( 1986 ) and Strickland and Judd ( 1983 ) . |
| 10 | John Pain also had vivid memories of this occasion : ‘ Once again the loss of a pilot could be laid at the door of the A.V.M. He was still insisting that the most senior officer led the flight . |
| 11 | There 's no end to the ailments which are now being laid at the door of stress . |
| 12 | For the moment it is enough to observe that the Historie/ Geschichte dichotomy could very easily end up looking rather like Lessing 's between the accidental truths of history and the necessary truths of reason , or Fichte 's between the historical and the metaphysical , and thus lead to a position open to the same charge of Gnosticism that Baur had laid at the door of Hegel and Schleiermacher . |
| 13 | In popular terms more responsibility for Britain 's lack of international competitiveness has been laid at the door of trade unions than at that of management ; an attitude strongly encouraged by the high political profile which unions have adopted since 1945 . |
| 14 | Some of the confusion can be laid at the door of the word ‘ profitability ’ . |
| 15 | In fact , Charles 's highly publicized conversion to vegetarianism can more properly be laid at the door of his former bodyguard , Paul Officer who frequently argued with him during long car journeys about the virtues of a non-meat diet . |
| 16 | The blame , she felt , should be laid at the door of ‘ the planners who are playing too safe to the provincial market … ’ |
| 17 | Blame for this fiasco is being laid at the door of everyone from teachers to examiners . |
| 18 | If I was not similarly open , it is merely because my embarrassments can only be laid at the door of my own folly , and not to the workings of chance . ’ |
| 19 | Either way ( and the suspicion must be that some historians are determined to have it either way ) , blame for the collapse of the Carolingian state is laid at the door of the Frankish nobility . |