Sentence examples for were put down to from inspiring English sources
During the Italian outbreaks the dancing manias were put down to the bite of a tarantula.
A further 14 deaths were put down to ecstasy combined with other substances.
The appalling brassy blond was just the first of many mistakes and failings that were put down to the influence of "that university".
(general headquarters)." Instead, "the failures of the past were put down to reasons other than the stout use of the machine-gun by the enemy and his scientifically-planned defences". Thus was produced an atmosphere of false confidence.
But these were put down to the experimental nature of the strikingly cantilevered house, rather than anything fundamentally wrong.To Wright's chagrin, the engineers who built the house, backed by the house's owner, a Pittsburgh retailing magnate, surreptitiously inserted more reinforcing steel bars into Fallingwater's concrete than Wright had called for.
A boost in clothing market share and a record autumn season for women's footwear were put down to the latest campaign, but M&S did warn the investment in marketing would lead to operating costs at the top end of forecasts.
It is being put down to climate change.
But their friendship cannot be put down to chance.
That can be put down to the quarrel over Iraq.
Sure, this all could be put down to football decisions.
What I did cannot be put down to youthful folly.
