Example sentences of "[be] blame for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Problems in Japan are blamed for the setback . |
| 2 | Opinion polls now show that employers are blamed for Britain 's economic problems and union are more popular than at any time in their history . |
| 3 | Businessmen and politicians ( often the same people ) are blamed for overspending on prestige projects — including the president 's $250 million basilica — and for luxurious living . |
| 4 | Many things are blamed for poor blackgrass control and there is a growing tendency to condemn herbicide resistance . |
| 5 | Inter-departmental squabbles are blamed for failures in India ( Bali 1974 ; Ranganathan 1978 ) . |
| 6 | Single-parent families , that is mothers , are blamed for continuing this process , producing a culture of dependency and poverty in that their children are said to grow up with poor interpersonal skills , low educational achievement , and lack of marketable skills . |
| 7 | Galway which yielded silver until their closure in 1980 , are blamed for the death of livestock . |
| 8 | The usual outcome is that the weaker , more dependent individuals are blamed for family problems . |
| 9 | It is , therefore , not surprising to find in Luke that it is the Jews who are blamed for the death of Jesus . |
| 10 | The four factors of bad conditions , overcrowding , understaffing and staff unrest are blamed for poor security . |
| 11 | Although world trends are blamed for our present problems , to a certain extent they result from bad legislation . |
| 12 | Although world trends are blamed for much of the plight of the unemployed , some blame must lie in bad fiscal policy . |
| 13 | Too often minority students themselves are blamed for their failure . |
| 14 | Emissions of nitrogen oxides from vehicles are blamed for much of the dramatic increase in asthma , particularly among children where one in seven suffers from the disease . |
| 15 | Frosts and flooding are blamed for causing the damage on more than three thousand miles of the county 's roads . |
| 16 | Local unions said overwork , fears about job security and poor management support are blamed for the staff crisis . |
| 17 | Nowadays the victims are blamed for being vulnerable . |
| 18 | What 's called a Norwegian list , w , quite why the Norwegians are blamed for this I do n't know , er , and the idea with a Norwegian list , is that you have , you put the problem on the left-hand side if you 're right-handed , and then you would brain-storm the solutions for that on the right-hand side . |
| 19 | Sewage works , farming , industry in general and drought are blamed for the declining quality of our rivers , canals and estuaries . |
| 20 | Books , and the words they contain , are blamed for causing hatred and sorrow in the world . |
| 21 | You said at an earlier stage in this conversation erm that it 's always the defeated parties who are blamed for starting wars . |
| 22 | The current poor economic climate has been blamed for total admissions of only 420,000 people , some 300,000 down on the 1988 total and the lowest figure since the show moved to the National Exhibition Centre from London in 1978 . |
| 23 | The Left Coalition has so far ruled out linking up with the conservatives again — the improbable alliance of last June has been blamed for much of their drop in support — but has already hinted that it would be willing to support a national unity government as proposed by the New Democrat leader Mr Constantine Mitsotakis . |
| 24 | He can count himself lucky not to have been blamed for the bounce by his political masters . |
| 25 | Tree trunks , too , have been blamed for the monster legends ( see New Scientist , vol 95 , p 354 ) . |
| 26 | As far as total dust veil is concerned , it seems to be roughly the same size as the veil from the Agung eruption , which has been blamed for cooling the northern hemisphere by about 0.3 °C in the mid-1960s.There is one key difference , though : El Chichón 's eruption occurred in the northern hemisphere , Agung 's in the south . |
| 27 | Advances in automation , the development of word-processors and the many other applications of information technology have all been blamed for rising unemployment . |
| 28 | Unemployment mixed with the political and racial problems have been blamed for the soaring crime rate . |
| 29 | Coffee has been blamed for increasing the pulse rate and for interfering with the efficiency of the digestive process . |
| 30 | It 's something both they and lesbians have always been blamed for , despite the now well-publicized fact that it is heterosexual men who commit by far the most assaults on boys , as well as girls . |