Example sentences of "caused by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good humour helped to see Victor through his prolonged ill health , caused by a lung complaint which led ultimately to a transplant operation from which he did not recover . |
| 2 | It is hard to understand why a horse will try to run away from a pain caused by a bit or a rough hand , but the fact is that they do . |
| 3 | A private nuisance may be , and usually is , caused by a person doing , on his own land , something which he is entitled to do . |
| 4 | The situation was caused by a conflict between the Peugeot Talbot and Citroën accounts , which has bedevilled the Euro RSCG merger from the start . |
| 5 | He also agreed he 'd never seen a skull fracture caused by a blow to the nose . |
| 6 | He reckons that death was due to a fractured skull , caused by a blow on the head from some heavy but softish instrument — he suggested a piece of lead piping wrapped in a sock , but it might have been a sandbag , or anything like that . |
| 7 | Since Carol Clark 's death , caused by a blow to the neck , police have followed up more than 3,000 lines of enquiry , some of them through Interpol . |
| 8 | As we entered the kitchen Pat looked up at the roof and the large gaping hole caused by a shell that had passed through two floors then smashed through the kitchen door , ending up in the garden . |
| 9 | It 's been caused by a delay in the operation to move a bridge crossing the M4 near the Severn estuary . |
| 10 | The ‘ Oh ! ’ was caused by a flash of insight ; it seemed like an answer to the prayer I had not prayed , the prayer I had only thought . |
| 11 | Neither an acute complication of gall stone disease nor a non-functioning gall bladder , if caused by a stone impacted in Hartmann 's pouch , was regarded as a contraindication to treatment . |
| 12 | If a disease is caused by a mutation in a gene , it may be ‘ dominant ’ or ‘ recessive ’ — that is , it may occur when only one of the two copies is mutated in spite of the presence of a normal gene , or only when both are defective . |
| 13 | Mr Rice , a surgeon , stated that PC Charlton had died from pressure to the brain caused by a fracture of the skull , this in turn being consistent with the young constable 's head hitting the kerb during the affray . |
| 14 | This attentional failure may be caused by a lowering of arousal level , which may be temporarily counteracted by the subject exerting special efforts to remain awake . |
| 15 | Children born with Down 's Syndrome , a condition caused by a chromosome abnormality in which those affected show distinctive ‘ mongoloid ’ features from birth , provide one example ; others are cases where the handicap results from disturbances in metabolic or hormonal functioning or from brain damage at birth . |
| 16 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 17 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 18 | Low birthweight associated with maternal smoking is due to a restriction in the growth rate of the baby caused by a reduction in the oxygen supply reaching the baby through the placenta . |
| 19 | Later in the sequence the gastric contents take on a slightly more homogeneous quality , which may be caused by a reduction in particle size , although more prolonged imaging would be required to confirm this conclusively . |
| 20 | Pain caused by a kick to the stomach with tenderness afterwards , but leaving no visible injury , was sufficient : Reigate JJ ex p Counsell ( 1983 ) 148 JPR 193 . |
| 21 | Detailed geophysical investigations in the most anomalous area identified a large induced polarisation anomaly between Borland Glen and Coul Burn , which diamond-core drilling showed was caused by a zone of altered and pyritised volcanic rocks . |
| 22 | Richard Molesworth 's social rank ( he was nephew of the seventh Viscount Molesworth ) did not compensate in her mother 's eyes for the dangers of marrying a man with a violent temper ( supposedly caused by a head wound incurred in the Crimean war ) . |
| 23 | Poor circulation in the hands and feet is usually caused by a narrowing of the very tiny blood capillaries . |
| 24 | In matters of potential Dual Indemnity for Third Party damage or injury caused by a vehicle the intention is that the Dual Indemnity Undertaking and Explanatory Notes ( G.M. 22/7/76 , C.L. 's 4/10/76 and 26/10/76 ) thereto shall apply . |
| 25 | It is caused by a bacterium Haemophilus ducreyi , which is often very difficult to grow in the laboratory and correspondingly hard to find in the lesions themselves . |
| 26 | It is caused by a bacterium called Donovania granulomatis . |
| 27 | Correlation does not necessarily imply causality , i.e. a change in one variable is not necessarily the cause of a change in another ( a change in both may be caused by a change in a third ) . |
| 28 | Every one of those links , whether it is an effect on the chemistry inside a cell , a later effect on how brain cells wire themselves together , an even later effect on behaviour , or a final effect on lake size , is correctly regarded as caused by a change in the DNA . |
| 29 | Fear is an emotional state of mind , caused by a sense of impending danger or pain . |
| 30 | In the celebrated case Wilson v Rickett Cockerell and Co Ltd [ 1954 ] 1 QB 598 , the Court of Appeal held the seller liable for damage to property caused by a detonator which was included in a consignment of Coalite . |