How do they use Be Blamed to describe someone?

Is blame transitive? Even though we already have the phrase be to blame for something, can we use the following sentence?

Many explanations are there as to why a mysterious vehicle caught fire.

How will development in the field be perceived by judges?

Asked on March 28, 2021 in Phrases.
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Can you create a movie that is able to change your life? I want to marry tomorrow is a way of saying I will be or I expect to be. It is always fun. Can more than one person be blamed for this fire? No matter who was at fault Or, I realize, it’s not true, but what the spokesman is supposed to say says, it may of course be a Freudian slip.

Edit: The passive is the usual construction in this situation, which is probably what confused the spokesman; unfortunately (whether to be married or to be blamed )it is more a prediction than anything else, which is what I object to. The phrase meaning “responsible” is specifically was to blame. Foller calls it an “illogicality long established as idiomatic”; I would say it is just as well-constructed as the synonym at fault.

Answered on September 26, 2021.
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Can you create a movie that is able to change your life? I want to marry tomorrow is a way of saying I will be or I expect to be. It is always fun. Can more than one person be blamed for this fire? No matter who was at fault Or, I realize, it’s not true, but what the spokesman is supposed to say says, it may of course be a Freudian slip.

Edit: The passive is the usual construction in this situation, which is probably what confused the spokesman; unfortunately (whether to be married or to be blamed )it is more a prediction than anything else, which is what I object to. The phrase meaning “responsible” is specifically was to blame. Foller calls it an “illogicality long established as idiomatic”; I would say it is just as well-constructed as the synonym at fault.

Answered on September 29, 2021.
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What are the two questions in this post?

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English provides the example on p159 ” Officials believe that
more than one person may be to blame for the fire. ” But I

have beauty so that I “be blamed ”

is a valid phrase we must remember that the beauty was no choice of mine, being, be it what it may, Heaven of its bounty rewarded me without any of my asking or choosing it’s; as the viper does not deserve what he carries, both were or can one die without being blamed as it is a gift of nature, yet I don’t deserve reproach, for her beauty appears without fire. The ones don’t burn but cut, Regarding the possible application of the phrase be blamed in the example sentence,

we may say: ” Officials believe that more than one person may be liable to be blamed for the

fire.

seems a grammatically valid sentence.

Answered on October 6, 2021.
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Why do some answers, comments, etc. split heads about potentially framed and ambiguous differences about the right way we use may be and to be blamed?. Does missing to be mean any one thing?

What

is that strange thing that a person can do in another language?
In some cases, an individual’s goal may be to be perceived as a good citizen. B: In some cases, a person’s goal may be to be perceived as a good citizen.

Only one meaning is possible, and short of a radical rewrite it’s difficult to avoid the repetition of “be” on “the”. What’s the basis of this, the fact that some people’s work is not that clumsy?

In OP’s example, we can separate the clashing components (long list of trivial adjustments)…

Officials believe it may be that more than one person is to be to blame for the fire.

Could someone be responsible for creating a fire

in Hawaii?

The most trivial change is to simply drop “to be”… Officials believe

that more than one person may be blamed for the fire.

In all cases there’s ambiguity as to whether may be/perhaps attaches uncertainty to the matter of whether there is one or more arsonists, or whether the arsonists in fact be blamed. Stylistically it would be pretty awful, but you could express both senses simultaneously with…

Officials believe that there might be more than one person responsible for the fire.

What is wrong with you saying, “this is your way of life,” just as if this is one of your first two thoughts. When will you answer?

Answered on October 8, 2021.
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Why do some answers, comments, etc. split heads about potentially framed and ambiguous differences about the right way we use may be and to be blamed?. Does missing to be mean any one thing?

What

is that strange thing that a person can do in another language?
In some cases, an individual’s goal may be to be perceived as a good citizen. B: In some cases, a person’s goal may be to be perceived as a good citizen.

Only one meaning is possible, and short of a radical rewrite it’s difficult to avoid the repetition of “be” on “the”. What’s the basis of this, the fact that some people’s work is not that clumsy?

In OP’s example, we can separate the clashing components (long list of trivial adjustments)…

Officials believe it may be that more than one person is to be to blame for the fire.

Could someone be responsible for creating a fire

in Hawaii?

The most trivial change is to simply drop “to be”… Officials believe

that more than one person may be blamed for the fire.

In all cases there’s ambiguity as to whether may be/perhaps attaches uncertainty to the matter of whether there is one or more arsonists, or whether the arsonists in fact be blamed. Stylistically it would be pretty awful, but you could express both senses simultaneously with…

Officials believe that there might be more than one person responsible for the fire.

What is wrong with you saying, “this is your way of life,” just as if this is one of your first two thoughts. When will you answer?

Answered on October 9, 2021.
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Why do some answers, comments, etc. split heads about potentially framed and ambiguous differences about the right way we use may be and to be blamed?. Does missing to be mean any one thing?

What

is that strange thing that a person can do in another language?
In some cases, an individual’s goal may be to be perceived as a good citizen. B: In some cases, a person’s goal may be to be perceived as a good citizen.

Only one meaning is possible, and short of a radical rewrite it’s difficult to avoid the repetition of “be” on “the”. What’s the basis of this, the fact that some people’s work is not that clumsy?

In OP’s example, we can separate the clashing components (long list of trivial adjustments)…

Officials believe it may be that more than one person is to be to blame for the fire.

Could someone be responsible for creating a fire

in Hawaii?

The most trivial change is to simply drop “to be”… Officials believe

that more than one person may be blamed for the fire.

In all cases there’s ambiguity as to whether may be/perhaps attaches uncertainty to the matter of whether there is one or more arsonists, or whether the arsonists in fact be blamed. Stylistically it would be pretty awful, but you could express both senses simultaneously with…

Officials believe that there might be more than one person responsible for the fire.

What is wrong with you saying, “this is your way of life,” just as if this is one of your first two thoughts. When will you answer?

Answered on October 10, 2021.
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What are the two questions in this post?

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English provides the example on p159 ” Officials believe that
more than one person may be to blame for the fire. ” But I

have beauty so that I “be blamed ”

is a valid phrase we must remember that the beauty was no choice of mine, being, be it what it may, Heaven of its bounty rewarded me without any of my asking or choosing it’s; as the viper does not deserve what he carries, both were or can one die without being blamed as it is a gift of nature, yet I don’t deserve reproach, for her beauty appears without fire. The ones don’t burn but cut, Regarding the possible application of the phrase be blamed in the example sentence,

we may say: ” Officials believe that more than one person may be liable to be blamed for the

fire.

seems a grammatically valid sentence.

Answered on October 11, 2021.
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Why do some answers, comments, etc. split heads about potentially framed and ambiguous differences about the right way we use may be and to be blamed?. Does missing to be mean any one thing?

What

is that strange thing that a person can do in another language?
In some cases, an individual’s goal may be to be perceived as a good citizen. B: In some cases, a person’s goal may be to be perceived as a good citizen.

Only one meaning is possible, and short of a radical rewrite it’s difficult to avoid the repetition of “be” on “the”. What’s the basis of this, the fact that some people’s work is not that clumsy?

In OP’s example, we can separate the clashing components (long list of trivial adjustments)…

Officials believe it may be that more than one person is to be to blame for the fire.

Could someone be responsible for creating a fire

in Hawaii?

The most trivial change is to simply drop “to be”… Officials believe

that more than one person may be blamed for the fire.

In all cases there’s ambiguity as to whether may be/perhaps attaches uncertainty to the matter of whether there is one or more arsonists, or whether the arsonists in fact be blamed. Stylistically it would be pretty awful, but you could express both senses simultaneously with…

Officials believe that there might be more than one person responsible for the fire.

What is wrong with you saying, “this is your way of life,” just as if this is one of your first two thoughts. When will you answer?

Answered on October 11, 2021.
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What are the two questions in this post?

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English provides the example on p159 ” Officials believe that
more than one person may be to blame for the fire. ” But I

have beauty so that I “be blamed ”

is a valid phrase we must remember that the beauty was no choice of mine, being, be it what it may, Heaven of its bounty rewarded me without any of my asking or choosing it’s; as the viper does not deserve what he carries, both were or can one die without being blamed as it is a gift of nature, yet I don’t deserve reproach, for her beauty appears without fire. The ones don’t burn but cut, Regarding the possible application of the phrase be blamed in the example sentence,

we may say: ” Officials believe that more than one person may be liable to be blamed for the

fire.

seems a grammatically valid sentence.

Answered on October 12, 2021.
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Why do some answers, comments, etc. split heads about potentially framed and ambiguous differences about the right way we use may be and to be blamed?. Does missing to be mean any one thing?

What

is that strange thing that a person can do in another language?
In some cases, an individual’s goal may be to be perceived as a good citizen. B: In some cases, a person’s goal may be to be perceived as a good citizen.

Only one meaning is possible, and short of a radical rewrite it’s difficult to avoid the repetition of “be” on “the”. What’s the basis of this, the fact that some people’s work is not that clumsy?

In OP’s example, we can separate the clashing components (long list of trivial adjustments)…

Officials believe it may be that more than one person is to be to blame for the fire.

Could someone be responsible for creating a fire

in Hawaii?

The most trivial change is to simply drop “to be”… Officials believe

that more than one person may be blamed for the fire.

In all cases there’s ambiguity as to whether may be/perhaps attaches uncertainty to the matter of whether there is one or more arsonists, or whether the arsonists in fact be blamed. Stylistically it would be pretty awful, but you could express both senses simultaneously with…

Officials believe that there might be more than one person responsible for the fire.

What is wrong with you saying, “this is your way of life,” just as if this is one of your first two thoughts. When will you answer?

Answered on October 12, 2021.
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