Example sentences of "had caused [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Technical services director Edward Carswell said rain had caused serious flooding in council houses on a number of occasions and a new drain was needed . |
| 2 | The Iraqis had also carried out widespread looting and had caused serious damage to the country 's infrastructure . |
| 3 | He also designed new and much improved axle bearings , which largely eliminated the overheating which had caused serious traffic delays . |
| 4 | Under Chatichai such unions had wielded considerable power and had caused serious disruption to the government 's privatization plans . |
| 5 | Thus , in May 1988 , one of the highest turn-outs of Lords this century saw the Government home on the introduction of a flat-rate poll tax , a measure which had caused great concern amongst regular attendants . |
| 6 | A preliminary investigation is shown that uses a small scale statistical analyser to process text that had caused great problems for the rule-based system . |
| 7 | His referendum had caused great uncertainty . |
| 8 | Defending , David Allan , said the crash was something his client regretted and which had caused great distress to both sides . |
| 9 | However , Mr Harvey welcomed the ban on cars which had caused endless problems for shoppers in the past . |
| 10 | Magnentius had caused deep offence in the first place merely by being a barbarian and a pagan , but above all , by murdering Constans , also , no doubt , for receiving such widespread popular support from the peoples of the western provinces . |
| 11 | With a treble which had caused major problems in the first round included in the jump-off course , Raymakers could not afford to go at racing pace but it certainly looked hot enough to give his rival something to think about . |
| 12 | It ended in May 1943 when German Admiral Doenitz withdrew the U-Boat wolf packs which had caused major shipping losses for four years eight months and four days . |
| 13 | Invited by the colony 's governor , Lu was the most senior Chinese official to visit Hong Kong since the military suppression of the pro-democracy movement in China in June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] , which had caused major strains between Hong Kong and the UK on the one hand and China on the other . |
| 14 | Her first piece , written before she had joined Neil Cochrane 's household , from the viewpoint of a privileged outsider , had been even better than he could have hoped , and had caused favourable comment . |
| 15 | The flood had caused tremendous havoc , breaking down many buildings . |
| 16 | The markka , which had been pegged to the European currency unit ( ECU ) in June [ see p. 38297 ] , had been allowed to float temporarily by the Bank of Finland the previous day , after speculative pressure had caused short-term interest rates to rise to 30 per cent and resulted in a heavy capital outflow . |
| 17 | The House of Lords held that in the absence of a contractual relationship between the parties , the cost of repairing a defect in the structure , which was discovered before the defect had caused personal injury or physical damage to other property , was not recoverable in a negligence action . |
| 18 | Collins was the other striking contributor within Scotland 's side , tirelessly continuing at international level where he had left off for his club in Saturday 's Old Firm game and looking unaffected by the demands of a workload which had caused wholesale disruption to the national team elsewhere . |
| 19 | Zou said that the summer floods [ see p. 38339 ] had caused economic losses of over 80,000 million yuan ( US$14,850 million ) , and grain losses of 10,000 million jin ( 5,000,000 tonnes ) . |
| 20 | Half thought sex and violence on television had caused young people 's behaviour to get worse . |
| 21 | On may 3 it had caused sufficient problems to be pushed home on the last train of the day from Wroxham . |
| 22 | In a keynote address , President Turgut Özal of Turkey urged members to demonstrate greater unity to prevent a repeat of " Iraq 's lawlessness " in invading Kuwait , adding that the invasion had caused widespread suffering for many of the countries represented at the Conference . |
| 23 | The Sun was the most hated of the rabid tabloids , particularly for its ‘ Page 3 girls ’ and jingoistic coverage of the Falklands , which had caused widespread revulsion with headlines such as STICK IT UP YOUR JUNTA , and the infamous GOTCHA ! on the sinking of the Belgrano . |
| 24 | Kajiyama had caused widespread outrage in the USA in September 1990 when , while serving as Justice Minister , he gave an impromptu press conference in Tokyo and compared the influence of blacks in the USA with prostitutes [ see p. 37715 ] . |
| 25 | The strike , called in protest against local taxes imposed in seven states , had caused widespread disruption in food distribution and a sharp rise in food prices . |
| 26 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on Nov. 25 approved emergency assistance equivalent to SDR 189,550,000 ( about US$262,000,000 ) to help Pakistan meet its immediate foreign exchange requirements in the wake of floods which had caused widespread destruction during September [ see p. 39098 ] . |
| 27 | Stopping rivers and creating lakes , it was reported , had caused irreversible changes to thousands of acres of land . |
| 28 | The vote had the effect of removing from the top of the political agenda , if only temporarily , an issue which for many months had caused divisive debate in the country at large , and had threatened to overshadow Pope John Paul II 's visit to his homeland , due in June . |
| 29 | Iniki was only fractionally weaker than Hurricane Andrew , which had caused severe damage in the Bahamas , Florida and Louisiana in late August [ see p. 39044 ] . |
| 30 | Officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , visiting the plant in the week after the explosion , confirmed that , although the incident " which it said was the result of " human error " " had caused severe damage , very little radiation had been released . |