Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] cause [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each rod or cone contains a photo-sensitive pigment and the changes this undergoes when exposed to light cause a signal to be passed to nerve cells at the front of the retina . |
| 2 | The National Liberation Movement ( MLN ) claimed responsibility for the explosion of a bomb outside the US embassy which was reported to have caused no damage . |
| 3 | Thus the algal bloom off the Italian Adriatic shore in 1989 is reckoned to have caused the holiday trade and local fisherman losses running into tens if not hundreds of millions of pounds . |
| 4 | POLICE were last night hunting a ‘ maniac ’ driver who is said to have caused a crash which killed five people , including two young children . |
| 5 | Whether or not these can be said to have caused an increase in poverty depends , of course , on the definition of poverty chosen , as has been described above . |
| 6 | He was said to have caused an inordinate number of retakes when unable to keep up with fellow Afghans in an attack scene . |
| 7 | But although earlier events can not be said to have caused the crisis , they did have some bearing on how it developed . |
| 8 | But although earlier events can not be said to have caused the crisis , they did have some bearing on how it developed . |
| 9 | In retrospect , the public recognition of child abuse as an extensive social phenomenon can be seen to have caused a break in the policy tradition under which child care services had been developed since the Second World War . |
| 10 | The conclusion reached after analysing the seven policy areas was that no one influence could be seen to have caused the growth of government . |
| 11 | The trial of two drivers alleged to have caused the death of five young people has heard how one of the cars was travelling at ninety-six miles an hour shortly before the fatal accident . |
| 12 | A faulty incinerator is thought to have caused the blaze in Milton Keynes , Bucks . |
| 13 | McCullough said : ‘ At first , a trapped facial nerve was thought to have caused the numbness in my face . |
| 14 | Arsonists are thought to have caused the blaze which spread through the roofs of Trent Street , in the Rivers area of Middlesbrough yesterday . |
| 15 | This research is known to have caused the Commission great concern and the Society has told the Royal Commission that it is determined to deal with the problem . |
| 16 | It was impossible to please everybody , but Anselm 's conduct in these affairs must be judged to have caused the greatest amount of dissatisfaction to the largest number of people . |
| 17 | In southern Sweden , reduced calcium in acidified soils is believed to have caused a decline in terrestrial mollusc numbers and species in the past few decades . |
| 18 | Thus , orbital variations are believed to have caused the cyclic glaciations of the past 700,000 yr ( the Milankovitch hypothesis ) . |