Example sentences of "believe to have been cause [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Ten firemen are in a special isolation ward with ‘ glowing fingertips ’ , nausea and diarrhoea believed to have been caused by chemicals .
2 The man , suffering from a leg injury believed to have been caused by the fall , was taken to hospital for treatment .
3 As M3 grew so fast in the early Eighties , its performance can hardly explain the reduction in inflation , which I believe to have been caused by very high and rising unemployment together with a very large and destructive appreciation in sterling .
4 It was believed to have been caused by high levels of SO2 or NO2 pollution from East Germany or Poland .
5 The unrest , which was connected with further proposed petrol price and bus fare increases and also involved student protests , was believed to have been caused by a Supreme Court decision not to proceed with corruption charges against various former ministers .
6 The erosion is believed to have been caused by a combination of : i ) the relative rise in sea level brought about by the slow sinking of southeastern England ; ii ) an actual rise in sea level locally since the 1970s ; and iii ) the reduction of saltmarshes due to human-made sea defences .
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