"attribute to it" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to say that something is thought to be caused by or associated with something else. Example: The success of her business was attributed to her excellent customer service.
In this sense, a design succeeds by traveling through an always-emerging network of its stakeholders directed by the meanings that its stakeholders attribute to it and that designers may wish to track and utilize.
To call the glass fragile is to attribute to it a structure which would lead its breaking if it were dropped from a significant height onto a hard surface; the structure is a physical state, even if we cannot specify it in physical terms.
Red Rooster is a shadow of its former self, a result I attribute to it being the one fast-food chain committed to serving peas.
Unlike artwork, however, where the "thousand words" convey a subjective perspective, a causal diagram should convey exactly the thousand words its creator and all other fluent readers would attribute to it.
We certainly don't attribute to it the significance others attribute to it automatically.
There's never been any evidence that great literature, in and of itself, performs the role that conservatives attribute to it.
I examine its design, its purposes, and the merits and shortcomings which Ptolemy attributes to it.
By roasting or sauteing, you underline a quality rarely attributed to it: sweetness.
Cases of the "subway cold," the "subway consumption" and the "municipal tuberculosis" were attributed to it.
Globalization, and the host of evils attributed to it, have been a hot topic here.
The IFS privately issued threats that it would publicly rebut statements wrongly attributed to it.
