Example sentences of "[verb] been caused [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This huge opening in the moor , as large as a tennis court , has been caused by a collapse of the surface coming to rest in a debris of fallen boulders twenty to thirty feet lower . |
| 2 | If the leak has been caused by a puncture in the middle of a pipe run , cut through it and remove about 20mm ( 8in ) of pipe so you can reconnect the cut ends with a special repair compression fitting . |
| 3 | In a recent review of Germany 's environmental performance , the OECD criticised the confusion in Germany 's definition of waste that has been caused by a desire to encourage recycling . |
| 4 | The sudden interest in the beach has been caused by a bumper cockle harvest which , according to experts , happens every five to 10 years . |
| 5 | The sudden interest in the beach has been caused by a bumper cockle harvest which , according to experts , happens every five to 10 years . |
| 6 | The doctor said the injury could have been caused in a number of ways and though the soldier was limping he was ‘ surprised that such a minor injury would cause a limp . ’ |
| 7 | Have you ever come out in a rash after working in the garden , and thought it might have been caused by a plant you were handling ? |
| 8 | There could have been an innocent explanation for the dust cloud : it could have been caused by a herd of cows being driven to market , by a Prussian regiment on exercise , or even by a work gang hammering cobbles into the highway 's bed of chalk and flint , yet the musket-fire Sharpe had heard earlier , and the Presence of the enemy Dragoons on the southern bank of the Sambre suggested a more sinister cause . |
| 9 | Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring . |
| 10 | It might also have been caused by a dry soldered joint , that is , one which can make and break with expansion when warm . |
| 11 | Although preliminary speculation was that the crash might have been caused by a bomb , accident investigators revealed that the plane had nose-dived after the right engine suddenly went into reverse thrust ; electronic safety systems designed to cope with this had apparently failed , and a warning light had either malfunctioned or had not been believed by the pilot . |
| 12 | The lack of reversal when splitting data by accident estimates may have been caused by a number of films with very little peripheral information in them , or it may simply have been an effect of the high correlation between risk and accident estimates . |
| 13 | It 's thought the blaze may have been caused by a spark from a firework used in a stage act getting into the air heating system . |
| 14 | It 's thought the blaze may have been caused by a spark from a firework used in a stage act getting into the air heating system . |
| 15 | Australia 's national research organisation has said that the temperature jump could still have been caused by a natural variable . |
| 16 | The court accepted that the plaintiff 's injury could have been caused by a brain shake without any actual blow to the head . |
| 17 | Sources close to the ministry said later that early indications suggested the deaths may have been caused by a fault with a stove in the tent . |
| 18 | The infant had defects that were alleged to have been caused as a result of injuries , when in the womb , sustained when an accident occurred to her mother as a consequence of the negligence of a railway company . |
| 19 | Sometimes the testicles suffer from under or over-suspension , either of which can cause discomfort , but this is unlikely to have been caused by a vasectomy operation . |
| 20 | In a Minnesota case in 1979 , for instance , a young intern 's casual comment that a laceration appeared to have been caused by a knife later led the injured woman to change her story completely and come to believe , under hypnosis , that she was stabbed repeatedly , despite subsequent medical evidence . |
| 21 | At first the explosions were thought to have been caused by a gas leak , but gradually the police were able to piece together evidence linking the disaster to the Weathermen , one of whom had attached a wire to the wrong terminal . |
| 22 | That the windscreen wipers started to work can properly be said to have been caused by a set of things including the state of the wipers ' mountings and the smooth surface of the windscreen as well as the switch 's being flipped . |
| 23 | The unrest , which was connected with further proposed petrol price and bus fare increases and also involved student protests , was believed to have been caused by a Supreme Court decision not to proceed with corruption charges against various former ministers . |
| 24 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 25 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 26 | The erosion is believed to have been caused by a combination of : i ) the relative rise in sea level brought about by the slow sinking of southeastern England ; ii ) an actual rise in sea level locally since the 1970s ; and iii ) the reduction of saltmarshes due to human-made sea defences . |
| 27 | Brundle 's trouble had been caused by a split exhaust pipe which overheated a shock absorber . |
| 28 | Then , of course , there was Edmund Halley , he of comet fame — he was equally certain that the flooding had been caused by a passing comet . |
| 29 | On May 24 the navy reopened its inquiry into the 1989 explosion on the battleship USS Iowa after new tests cast fresh doubt on its original finding that the disaster had been caused by a suicidal gunner [ see pp. 36604 ; 37410 ] . |
| 30 | The basis of her legal case was that this condition had been caused by a motor accident four months before her birth in which her mother lost control of a pick-up truck during a cattle muster on the family ranch . |