Example sentences of "have be caused by [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If the leak has been caused by a puncture in the middle of a pipe run , cut through it and remove about 20mm ( 8in ) of pipe so you can reconnect the cut ends with a special repair compression fitting .
2 The sudden interest in the beach has been caused by a bumper cockle harvest which , according to experts , happens every five to 10 years .
3 The sudden interest in the beach has been caused by a bumper cockle harvest which , according to experts , happens every five to 10 years .
4 In a recent review of Germany 's environmental performance , the OECD criticised the confusion in Germany 's definition of waste that has been caused by a desire to encourage recycling .
5 This huge opening in the moor , as large as a tennis court , has been caused by a collapse of the surface coming to rest in a debris of fallen boulders twenty to thirty feet lower .
6 In part this change of attitude has been caused by an awareness that the earliest manuscript of the Histories , which contains only an abridged version of the first six books , does not reflect Gregory 's own intentions .
7 Where loss has been caused by an act or omission which is of a comparatively mechanical character , rather than involving an exercise of business discretion , the courts have , in contrast , shown themselves to be more willing to impose liability .
8 ‘ No insolvency proceedings shall be invalidated by any formal defect or by any irregularity , unless the court before which objection is made considers that substantial injustice has been caused by the defect or irregularity , and that the injustice can not be remedied by any order of the court .
9 ‘ It is therefore difficult to know what policy objective could have prompted the legislature to confine entitlement to claim compensation to post-natal injuries in a case where the fatality has been caused by the negligence of a third party . ’
10 Yet if part of the problem at Ibrox in respect of injury has been caused by the addition of European Champions league matches to an already congested domestic schedule , it is only Vogts 's good fortune that no German side was able to make it to the last eight of the European Cup .
11 In part this has been caused by the closures of collieries and factories , but the sharp drop in chapel or church attendance also means that fewer people are singing .
12 ‘ Partly that has been caused by the recession but it has also been triggered by technological advances .
13 ( 4 ) The subsection relieves an applicant from the consequences of the failure to exhibit a notice in compliance with subss. ( 2 ) ( b ) or ( 3 ) ( b ) where the failure has been caused by the removal , obscuring , etc. , of the notice through no fault of the applicant and the applicant has taken reasonable steps to protect and replace the notice .
14 Particular anger has been caused by the treatment of abstentions as votes in favour of the proposal .
15 However , concern has been caused by the fact that between 1976 and 1989 the ratio of debt to personal disposable income rose from 50% to over 100% ( BEQB May 1989 ) , and since 1980 the growth in credit has substantially exceeded the growth in income .
16 Indeed the most dramatic example of mass extinction known to biology has been caused by the introduction of an alien species .
17 Much of this confusion has been caused by the assumption that dog-whelks are poor taxonomists and can not discriminate between species of barnacles .
18 The four month hitch has been caused by the need for a process change in cache memory , without which , Cypress wo n't get good yields for the part .
19 The court accepted that the plaintiff 's injury could have been caused by a brain shake without any actual blow to the head .
20 There could have been an innocent explanation for the dust cloud : it could have been caused by a herd of cows being driven to market , by a Prussian regiment on exercise , or even by a work gang hammering cobbles into the highway 's bed of chalk and flint , yet the musket-fire Sharpe had heard earlier , and the Presence of the enemy Dragoons on the southern bank of the Sambre suggested a more sinister cause .
21 Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring .
22 Have you ever come out in a rash after working in the garden , and thought it might have been caused by a plant you were handling ?
23 It 's thought the blaze may have been caused by a spark from a firework used in a stage act getting into the air heating system .
24 It 's thought the blaze may have been caused by a spark from a firework used in a stage act getting into the air heating system .
25 The lack of reversal when splitting data by accident estimates may have been caused by a number of films with very little peripheral information in them , or it may simply have been an effect of the high correlation between risk and accident estimates .
26 Although preliminary speculation was that the crash might have been caused by a bomb , accident investigators revealed that the plane had nose-dived after the right engine suddenly went into reverse thrust ; electronic safety systems designed to cope with this had apparently failed , and a warning light had either malfunctioned or had not been believed by the pilot .
27 Sources close to the ministry said later that early indications suggested the deaths may have been caused by a fault with a stove in the tent .
28 Parents have reported problems which might have been caused by the separation or earlier conflict : truancy , clinging , withdrawn behaviour , bed-wetting , aggressiveness , nightmares and poor work at school ( Mitchell , 1985 ) .
29 The Archbishop of Canterbury , Thomas Bradwardine , died of the plague in August 1349 , but none of the chief officers of state succumbed , and amongst the titled nobility only the death of the Earl of Pembroke in August 1348 may possibly have been caused by the plague .
30 Must have been caused by the explosion that brought down the plane or by the impact of striking the water . ’
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