Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] blame for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deterioration of market conditions and higher fixed costs were blamed for the decline . |
| 2 | In a pre-scheduled address to an international banking conference attended by the Czech and Slovak finance ministers where he was to have delivered a lecture on setting up direct sales operations in Eastern Europe , Kontrax president Gabor Dixco told an embarrassed audience that the global recession , poor financial management and lack of support from the banks were to blame for the company 's collapse . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And this blew away Mr Lamont 's excuse that the Germans were to blame for the pound crashing . |
| 5 | Professor Stephen Holgate , chairman of the Department of Health 's Committee on the Medical Aspects of Air Pollution , cited recent research in Aberdeen which suggested that car fumes were to blame for a doubling in the numbers of children suffering from asthma and hayfever . |
| 6 | The Bolsheviks were blamed for the ‘ July uprising ’ , and Lenin was publicly denounced as a German agent . |
| 7 | She said high unemployment and low benefits were to blame for the problem . |
| 8 | However , on Jan. 13 re-contras were blamed for the kidnapping of four policemen from the Rio Blanco police station . |