Example sentences of "been caused by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How hot summers brought us stripped pines : Scientists now believe a dramatic loss of conifer needles which struck West German forests may have been caused by the weather , rather than pollution . |
| 2 | The only corroborative evidence , he suggested , was the bruising to her arm and legs , which could have been caused by the exertion of force . |
| 3 | It has been suggested that their slow decline in the last I00 million years or so has been caused by the commensurate rise in diversity of filter-feeding bivalve molluscs , which ousted them from their former habitats . |
| 4 | Indeed the most dramatic example of mass extinction known to biology has been caused by the introduction of an alien species . |
| 5 | There have also been occasional errors of judgment , regretted by all but recognised to have been caused by the harsh financial climate on the one hand and the immense flood of new books demanding funds and shelving on the other . |
| 6 | They accepted that Mr Goodman would suffer financial hardship as a result , but said that they were not in a position to judge whether his dismissal had been justified , so that it could not be said that his difficulties had been caused by the company 's conduct . |
| 7 | This may have been caused by the heating and lighting used at that time , or perhaps modern communications plus far better fire fighting methods available today ensure that incidents are tackled much more quickly . |
| 8 | A lengthy enquiry concluded that the accident had been caused by the aircraft landing on grass , 127 feet short of the runway , so that the wheels dug into the soft earth and the plane went out of control . |
| 9 | The movement I had seen might have been caused by the passage of a bird ; on the other hand it might have been caused by the tigress ; anyway , a little investigation was necessary before proceeding farther on my way . |
| 10 | The movement I had seen might have been caused by the passage of a bird ; on the other hand it might have been caused by the tigress ; anyway , a little investigation was necessary before proceeding farther on my way . |
| 11 | In her defence the artiste explained that this had only been caused by the persistent attention paid to her by mosquitoes that night . |
| 12 | ‘ My doctor wrote a report to say this could well have been caused by the accident . ’ |
| 13 | The guard 's sorrow had been caused by the vet 's mistaken optimism as to the dog 's ailment . |
| 14 | A spokesman said : ‘ The damage may have been caused by the surf dragging them over the rocks . |
| 15 | Delays have been caused by the need for the Government to determine the future of coal mining in Britain , following its decision last year to close 30 pits . |
| 16 | A panel of medical and scientific experts based them on how likely it was that cancer had been caused by the victim 's working conditions . |
| 17 | It could have been caused by the body falling . |
| 18 | Must have been caused by the explosion that brought down the plane or by the impact of striking the water . ’ |
| 19 | Not that he believed that the firing he had heard had been caused by the French . |
| 20 | Parents have reported problems which might have been caused by the separation or earlier conflict : truancy , clinging , withdrawn behaviour , bed-wetting , aggressiveness , nightmares and poor work at school ( Mitchell , 1985 ) . |
| 21 | Menlo Park California-based Network General Corp is offering another system for its Sniffer Network Analyser : a new version will run on the Toshiba Corp T6400/DX2 colour portable running at 50MHz ; currently the new implementation supports only Ethernet , but Token Ring support is promised for the second quarter ; the move looks as if it has been caused by the chronic shortage of the Compaq Computer Corp machines that form the basis for the existing Sniffer systems . |
| 22 | Marek Dabrowski , a former deputy finance minister in Poland and an adviser to the Russian government , takes the argument to its logical conclusion : comparison with Poland 's experience in switching from communism to capitalism shows that the ailments afflicting Russia have not been caused by the imposition of shock therapy . |
| 23 | They have been caused by the failure to impose it consistently . |
| 24 | Before dealing with these , Mr Fazio must first heal the wounds within the Bank that have been caused by the behind-the-scenes battle to succeed Mr Ciampi . |
| 25 | A big reason was that much of the slump had been caused by the doubling of oil prices in 1973 ; as the shock was absorbed , growth picked up . |
| 26 | The four month hitch has been caused by the need for a process change in cache memory , without which , Cypress wo n't get good yields for the part . |
| 27 | The Archbishop of Canterbury , Thomas Bradwardine , died of the plague in August 1349 , but none of the chief officers of state succumbed , and amongst the titled nobility only the death of the Earl of Pembroke in August 1348 may possibly have been caused by the plague . |
| 28 | Eisenhower had presided over a period of grim Cold War tension which he , like most Americans , believed had been caused by the ambitions of world communism . |
| 29 | ‘ No insolvency proceedings shall be invalidated by any formal defect or by any irregularity , unless the court before which objection is made considers that substantial injustice has been caused by the defect or irregularity , and that the injustice can not be remedied by any order of the court . |
| 30 | ‘ Some confusion may have been caused by the use of the word ‘ agent . ’ |