Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] cause [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A feature of the safety approach favoured by the CEGB is the use of microprocessor technology in a bid to side-step the errors by operators which helped cause the Three Mile Island accident in the US four years ago . |
| 2 | Er , nobody looked at the time which , which did cause a problem . |
| 3 | It has been used effectively for example in destroying odours from maggot farms which had caused a nuisance over a wide area , for more than twenty years and not even a tall chimney was necessary to remove the resultant exhaust gases . |
| 4 | Nikko Securities , Daiwa Securities , Nomura Securities and Yamaichi Securities admitted on Sept. 23 that they had engaged in further illegal share compensation deals , in addition to those which had caused a political storm earlier in the year [ see p. 38342 ] . |
| 5 | Mr Geoffrey Robertson , QC , submitted that the scenes which had caused the board to ban the video were to be seen as ‘ manifestations of a woman 's subconsciousness ’ . |
| 6 | The whole truth of course he had not sussed out , for who could possibly imagine that luck of hers , which had caused the telephone to ring at precisely the right moment . |
| 7 | The Korean War , which had caused the US to propose German rearmament in the first place , had settled into stalemate and the danger of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe had receded : German rearmament no longer seemed necessary . |
| 8 | Something — he was n't sure just what — which had caused the entire north to rise like yeast in sudden and furious ferment , the whole of industrial Lancashire and Yorkshire seething with militant men and women — highly militant , those women — on the march , carrying banners and loaves of bread on the end of sticks , singing hymns and psalms and chanting that it was no longer a matter of wages . |
| 9 | But it was n't that which had caused the perspiration to stand out on her skin . |
| 10 | The plan , which included conservation , diversification and financial assistance , was designed to combat the severe depletion of east-coast fish stocks , particularly off Newfoundland and Nova Scotia , which had caused the closure of several plants and the unemployment of several thousand fishermen and processing workers . |
| 11 | This followed the arrest in Switzerland of Gerald Andries , one of the French agents against whom a warrant remained outstanding in connection with the bombing of the Greenpeace ship in Auckland harbour in July 1985 , which had caused the death of one of its crew [ see p. 38480 ] . |
| 12 | The negotiations started positively , with agreement on separate Palestinian representation within the joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation , the issue which had caused the collapse of the second round of talks . |
| 13 | Colonel Philips explained that they had thought initially that they had discovered a danger similar to that which had caused the Hob 's Lane disaster . |
| 14 | From mid-August 1989 , 25 people were officially reported to have been killed and 109 wounded in 220 drug-related bombings which had caused an estimated US$17,000,000 in damages . |
| 15 | The Liberian crisis , which had caused an estimated 700,000 refugees to flee into Côte d'Ivoire , Guinea and Sierra Leone in the previous 16 months , continued to preoccupy leaders of the 16 members of ECOWAS , concerned for the stability of their region . |
| 16 | As I stared at her wondering what had caused the condition , I decided that it must be some kind of vitamin deficiency . |
| 17 | In fact no one then knew what had caused the Communist aggression in Korea . |
| 18 | And also it was a trick question because Mother knew full well what had caused the bruises ; she was just testing his nerve . |
| 19 | What had caused the sieges to be abandoned was the news that Cumberland was at last making his great move forward . |
| 20 | Scared pelicans flapped away , and Ellen came up from the galley to see what had caused the commotion . |
| 21 | Nothing lived in the entire village , and there was no sign of what had caused the deaths . |
| 22 | Each of them had his pet theories on what had caused the massive , popular Islamic uprising , and on how the situation should now develop . |
| 23 | Amazingly , he recovered , but no-one could ascertain what had caused the fits . |
| 24 | What had caused the change ? |
| 25 | And what had caused the overpopulation ? |