Example sentences of "caused by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additional yawing caused by the excess use of the rudder in a turn will make the wing-drop much sharper . |
| 2 | In this case the necessary yawing movement is caused by the high drag of the badly stalled wing . |
| 3 | Over the years there have been innumerable accidents and incidents caused by the airbrakes opening in flight . |
| 4 | Shingles is caused by the virus that causes chickenpox : the varicella zoster virus . |
| 5 | Cuts are not common in karate competition though , on occasions , a cut eyelid may be caused by the opponent 's long toenails . |
| 6 | If you fight on after sustaining a head injury and then receive a further blow to the head , the damage caused by the initial impact will be multiplied several times over ! |
| 7 | When , for example , a subject fitted with scalp electrodes over the auditory cortex is played a series of brief clicks through headphones and the EEG following each click is averaged so that random fluctuations cancel each other out , what is left is a systematic but complex pattern of electrical waves which is caused by the click in the same way that the waves on the surface of a pond are caused by dropping a pebble into it . |
| 8 | ( The many demonstrations , in neuropsychological experiments of the kind discussed in Chapter 4 , of the loss of mental processes caused by the loss of neural processes are more powerful here . ) |
| 9 | Behaviour is genuinely caused by the interaction of such mental states . |
| 10 | Some ironically have been brought about by road congestion caused by the railway 's erstwhile competitor , the private car . |
| 11 | Further damage was caused by the way price rises were introduced , the report says . |
| 12 | If you caused a flood by knocking a nail through a water pipe , the flood section would cover you for damage caused by the water , but not for the damage to the pipe . |
| 13 | However , the key fact remains true that the area under the pulses is proportional to the external magnetic field , after discounting the small offset caused by the fundamental breakthrough . |
| 14 | Fig. 11 : The electronics divides into two parts : the exciter section drives the core into saturation with a current ramp of alternating polarity while the measurement section integrates the pickup coil pulses caused by the action of a static magnetic field on the core . |
| 15 | For low inputs , a feedback attenuator compensates for the reduced output ; the difference-of-squares circuit in Fig. 3 , for example , used the attenuator to cancel the factor of 2 loss in gain caused by the sum term generation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Andrew Hugh Smith , ISE chairman , said : ‘ Turnover in UK equities has seen an increase of almost 50 per cent over the past year , alleviating some of the problems caused by the very low volumes after the market crash . |
| 18 | Rechem also agreed to drop its request for a judicial review into Torfaen 's monitoring of contamination supposedly caused by the firm , and of its publication of the results . |
| 19 | Declaring global warming , caused by the build up of carbon dioxide and other gases , to be ‘ the most worrisome ’ of all environmental threats , Dr Cunningham promised a major long-term programme of energy conservation . |
| 20 | To understand why Jews should be bothered by Catholics praying at this site it is necessary to go back to the role played by the Catholic Church in fomenting antisemitism , the passivity of the Pope during the war while the exterminations were underway and even the suspicions caused by the reception of Austrian President Kurt Waldheim , with his dubious war record , by the present Pope , John Paul II ( from Poland ) . |
| 21 | His conqueror , by 15-9 , 12-15 , 15-9 , 8-15 , 15-13 was Australia 's Chris Dittmar and his tiredness was also partly caused by the extra pounds of weight that have been expanding around his middle in recent months . |
| 22 | Last-quarter UK sales were hard hit by high interest rates eating into disposable income , a slower housing market , and a fall-off in DIY interest caused by the hot weather . |
| 23 | The only corroborative evidence , he suggested , was the bruising to her arm and legs , which could have been caused by the exertion of force . |
| 24 | The last two days ' scenes of disarray , including some fisticuffs , caused by the exclusion of far-right MEPs from the leadership of two delegations to foreign parliaments , are demeaning to the European Parliament , and bode ill . |
| 25 | The problem is caused by the spartan nature of the seats in riot vans , and because police rarely get the chance to ease aching muscles with a stroll . |
| 26 | Vi Gillman , spokeswoman for the National Back Pain Association , said the problem was caused by the way seats were designed and the posture of the people sitting in them . |
| 27 | She was profoundly scarred by her father 's suicide in 1976 , and blames the tragedy on the mental stress caused by the Wilson government 's reneging on a fighter bomber deal he had set up with Sweden . |
| 28 | The only exception to this is the discussion of the likely reactive effect caused by the presence of observers ( McCall 1975 ; Policy Studies Institute 1983b : 11–15 ; Reiss 1971 ; Softley 1980 ; Southgate and Ekblom 1986 ; Steer 1980 ) , although no serious doubt is put on the validity of observational data on the police . |
| 29 | As we all dropped to the floor the shifty-eyed character bolted out of the front door and into a cloud of dust and pieces of masonry , caused by the explosions . |
| 30 | ‘ I could certainly go a mug of hot tea , ’ I thought , as I examined my lumps and bumps caused by the ever-persistent mosquitoes . |