Example sentences of "caused by a " in BNC.
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1 | AIDS ( Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ) is a condition caused by a virus called HIV ( Human Immuno Deficiency Virus ) . |
2 | This was caused by a combination of a very strong gust and the fact that no one was keeping the nose down while the glider was being towed into wind . |
3 | This is a slow launch which picks up speed and fades several times , and it is usually caused by a shortage of fuel or mechanical trouble on the winch or car . |
4 | AIDS is a life-threatening medical condition caused by a virus known as HIV . |
5 | Thrush is caused by a yeast infection . |
6 | For most it 's a temporary phase , caused by a variety of factors — not least tiredness . |
7 | A correct shout emanates from the diaphragm and is caused by a general muscular contraction accompanying the punch . |
8 | The final injury I want to talk about is brain damage caused by a hard blow to the head . |
9 | Given that there are good correlations between the two , this would imply that they are both being caused by a third , unidentified event . |
10 | What are a few bolts beside the environmental devastation caused by a large quarry ? |
11 | From Gaping Gill a path leads through a grassy dry valley which soon narrows at the boulderchoked entrance to Trow Gill , a small but imposing limestone gorge — possibly caused by a collapsed cave — through which Clapham Beck once tumbled before being swallowed up by Gaping Gill . |
12 | Brundle 's trouble had been caused by a split exhaust pipe which overheated a shock absorber . |
13 | The pass master was Gary Waddock , playing only his second First Division game after a two-and-a-half year absence caused by a knee injury . |
14 | It is the vicious downward spiral of drug abuse , drug dealing and violence that terrorises inner city estates , not the police action to free the vast majority of law-abiding residents from a menace caused by a tiny minority . |
15 | It was Les , he had a large wound in his chest , caused by a piece of shrapnel . |
16 | There was a ragged hole just above the knee on his left leg caused by a small piece of shrapnel . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Obviously caused by a simple technical fault , this spiriting away of his death gave him a singular nobility totally lacking from the rest of the film . |
19 | British Waterways lowered the water in the section by ten inches while laying a sewage pipe underneath the canal and say a further drop in levels was caused by a leaking paddle on a lock gate . |
20 | It is by this process of conflict and contradiction , caused by a multiplicity of factors all arising from the natural conditions of existence , that history proceeds to the human condition and human ideas current at a particular moment . |
21 | But colonialism , the tensions caused by a feudal economy 's reaction to capitalism and finally the effects of capitalism itself have all been imposed on a social structure which can be traced much further back . |
22 | But this particular traffic jam was n't caused by a Scania shedding its load , sewer repairs or slight confusion about exactly which way one should negotiate the Wandsworth one-way system . |
23 | The TCCB will give serious consideration this winter to the damage to techniques caused by a preponderance of one-day cricket , yet Lancashire 's last three Sunday matches at home accounted for almost £80,000 . |
24 | Injuries to five spectators at Middlesbrough 's home match with Leeds United were caused by a surge rather than overcrowding , police said . |
25 | Some analysts argue that the rise in wealth and the fall in savings are both caused by a third factor : people 's belief that their incomes will grow more rapidly in future . |
26 | Although diabetes is usually caused by a pancreas unable to do its job , it is not treated by replacing the offending organ . |
27 | The noise and nuisance caused by a decision to keep working on the building on Sundays was also a source of neighbourly discontent . |
28 | Caused by a dispute with the film 's producers over money , it 's sorted out now , but Broderick confesses that he did feel angry . |
29 | In conferences our movement problems have , for the most part , been caused by a ‘ political ’ insistence on cramming more chairs , more people into inadequate space , including the stage . |
30 | Some elderly residents of John Broadwood House in Bridle Lane , behind Piccadilly Circus , were fortunate to escape injury as the blast , caused by a device containing less than 1lb of high explosives , blew out windows of their homes . |