Example sentences of "to have caused a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE were last night hunting a ‘ maniac ’ driver who is said to have caused a crash which killed five people , including two young children . |
| 2 | A group of people who practise transcendential meditation claim to have caused a drop in violent crime in America . |
| 3 | In southern Sweden , reduced calcium in acidified soils is believed to have caused a decline in terrestrial mollusc numbers and species in the past few decades . |
| 4 | In retrospect , the public recognition of child abuse as an extensive social phenomenon can be seen to have caused a break in the policy tradition under which child care services had been developed since the Second World War . |
| 5 | One such charge appears to have caused an aftermath . |
| 6 | Whether or not these can be said to have caused an increase in poverty depends , of course , on the definition of poverty chosen , as has been described above . |
| 7 | When we take a belief , desire , or intention to have caused an action , as we commonly do , we are not thereby explaining the action by referring to other actions , let alone mere movements . |