Example sentences of "been cause [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks to the sophistication of modern mining techniques , little damage would have been caused to most other properties . |
| 2 | His depression had been caused at first by what he considered to be the disturbing condition of the victors after the war : he was uneasy about the foreign policy of both England and the United States , as well as about the intentions of Russia . |
| 3 | These are cases where death has been caused with insufficient fault to justify labelling it as murder , but with sufficient fault for a manslaughter verdict . |
| 4 | It could have been caused by extensive lava flows or by a more extreme form of the sort of surface plasticity seen in many of the oldest surviving features . |
| 5 | Student leaders at Queen 's University say the acute shortage of student houses flats and bedsits has been caused by higher standards for accommodation demanded by the Housing Executive . |
| 6 | The delay had been caused by one set of papers going temporarily astray in the post . |
| 7 | Now one of the problems is that doctors are rather reluctant to do that because it 's very difficult for them to be sure that a particular headache or a particular skin rash has been caused by one of the medicines which the patient was taking , so the doctors are not very good at filling in the yellow cards and these are not a very good way of reporting adverse reactions , and to get over that we are starting now to use computers . |
| 8 | A head-on car crash in which five women were killed may have been caused by flat tyres . |
| 9 | Consequently , you will slowly be able to eliminate many ailments that have been caused by long standing patterns of misuse . |
| 10 | Similar pores have been observed also in the Z1 Carbonate of the Auk ( Brennand and van Veen 1975 ) and Claymore fields and in outcrops of Zechstein carbonates in the U.K. , where leaching is thought to have been caused by meteoric water during uplift and exposure ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 11 | This situation had been caused by multiple needle use and by giving underweight newborn babies microtransfusions of unscreened blood . |
| 12 | But on the other hand the delays that have been caused by procedural motions |
| 13 | The worsening of the conditions in inner cities have been caused by two recent developments : |
| 14 | Some deaths , injuries and serious damage have been caused by young people who take other people 's cars and drive them at high speed . |
| 15 | It was of little concern to Dan that much of the weathering may have been caused by industrial pollution — what mattered was that science had found an answer . |
| 16 | Believing still that the catastrophe had been caused by other people and the actions of other people , believing it as firmly as Kate believed that it had been caused by devils and Quentin that it was part of God 's mystery , Lavinia saw a spark in the gloom . |
| 17 | Bucknor later showed me a particular mark on the seam though he said the damage had been caused by general play , insisting : ‘ There was no problem , Nothing wrong had happened . |
| 18 | ‘ It could have been caused by some sort of disaster or accident . |
| 19 | At the time I thought little more about it , but later I realized that it must have been caused by some powerful pain-killing drug . |
| 20 | Again on Bruno Zanardi 's restoration of Antelami 's ‘ Months ’ , Fiorella Minervino wrote that the marble had lost its characteristic surface veining ; in her opinion , this was probably due to the use of a chemical solvent to extract the metallic salts which had appeared on the surface , or it may have been caused by some kind of abrasive treatment . |
| 21 | The problem has been caused by compacted earth surrounding the undersoil heating and the defect has been ‘ creeping round the pitch ’ , according to the manager . |
| 22 | A spokeswoman for the Department of Marine said that tests carried out last year on the swans ruled out claims that the deaths had been caused by high levels of copper poisoning . |
| 23 | It was believed to have been caused by high levels of SO2 or NO2 pollution from East Germany or Poland . |
| 24 | In certain running-down cases , however , a defendant should be asked to make discovery ( eg latent defect cases , where the plaintiff may want to see all his maintenance and servicing records ; accidents alleged to have been caused by sudden and unexpected illness or death , where the plaintiff wants to see the medical records ; and of course claims in nuisance against highway authorities and their contractors , where discovery can often reveal breaches of prescribed safety codes and bad accident records ) . |
| 25 | With meticulous footnoting , she now argued that all plots and revolutions against the social order in human history had been caused by secret societies , through the use of black magic , mass hypnotism and telepathy . |
| 26 | Mr. Long also said that Mr. Thurgood had helped calm things down when the fight , which had been caused by another customer , broke out . |
| 27 | He says it could be an accident , but it could also have been caused by another person . |
| 28 | They were not expected to advance till July , and were certainly not expected in this part of Belgium , so Sharpe suspected that the musketry had been caused by Prussian troops at firing practice , yet a long acquaintance with war 's surprises had spurred Sharpe to investigate the sound . |
| 29 | Four months later it was Legasov who led the Soviet delegation to the Vienna conference on the disaster , and it was the forcefulness of his opening five-hour speech that established the conventional wisdom about Chernobyl : that it had been caused by human error among the operators , that the measures taken to protect the population had been adequate , and that the Soviet Union had nothing to hide . |
| 30 | Merchant Navy Minister Carlo Vizzini said on April 11 that an official inquiry would start immediately and that the accident appeared to have been caused by human error . |