Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] blame [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Both you and I are much blamed by the " crouner and capitanes " and in truth not without cause , for they say there is no wrong done in Ireland but only that which is done by these men that come from Ila , and Auchinbrecke said to me that he would complain to my Lord of you for sending them at all , except men you have passed and will be answerable for .
2 I do not think that the speakers are totally to blame for the lack of picked note definition either .
3 The planning policies of the 1960s and 1970s are usually blamed for the faceless shopping centres and office blocks , the loss of historic buildings and long-established activities .
4 But various characteristics of population and lifestyle are usually blamed for the problem :
5 Events that occur out of sight are automatically blamed on the child , or the mother may anticipate problems and keep warning or threatening the child in order to forestall a problem .
6 Software pirates are also blamed for the low sales figures .
7 Dodgy data are often blamed on the spending cuts in the early 1980s .
8 When they are quite innocent of certain events they are unfortunately blamed by the public in those areas , and they are seen as damaging the countryside and they are seen also they do not encourage the matter when you envisage the fact that they have these erm , for instance , animals — the dogs around their sites which are not noted for their behaviour , and there are many aspects of their behaviour which upset people around .
9 Although American mink are sometimes blamed for the disappearance of the European mink , the latter were already rare before American mink were introduced .
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