Example sentences of "[prep] attribute to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made the mistake of attributing to the press the importance that they themselves give to newspapers and journalists . |
| 2 | And interestingly , one review by Mawer contains the only mention of the Newbolt Report to be included in the Review during the whole of the inter-war period , and this solely in the context of attributing to the Report responsibility for generating a good deal of subsequent discussion of grammar . |
| 3 | It is fascinating to follow John Taylor 's poetic imagination in attributing to the Spirit of God the ‘ inner awareness of the unattained ’ , ‘ the stimulation of initiative and choice ’ , and the ‘ principle of sacrifice ’ inherent in the creative development of our world ( The Go-Between God , chapter 2 ) . |
| 4 | With all his theological subtlety and insight into human behaviour he accepted the common views of the time in attributing to the saints in Heaven a concern for their worldly rights which , if they had not been part of an eternal order of the universe , would have disgraced a schoolboy . |
| 5 | ‘ But note that this is quite different from attributing to the Church in its established structures the dignity of being the Kingdom of Christ . |
| 6 | Moreover , if the moral judgment which we require to make is one which involves our own personal interest we might reasonably look to the relevant law as representing a less partial view of the matter than our own ; for , without attributing to the law a non-partisan impartiality at variance with most available knowledge about the actual political and legal processes , it might still happen to be less partial and more informed than we are when making judgments about cases which affect us closely . |
| 7 | Nagel 's profound point is that even where the agent is at the mercy of fate , and though it seems irrational upon reflection , our ordinary moral attitudes would be unrecognizable without attributing to the agent responsibility and culpability in a wide range of cases of moral luck . |