Example sentences of "been cause by " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Brundle 's trouble had been caused by a split exhaust pipe which overheated a shock absorber . |
| 3 | Pravda may write that the refugee mess has been caused by ‘ provocations ’ and ‘ revanchist propaganda ’ from Bonn . |
| 4 | Had the explosion been caused by Semtex , suspicion would have centred on terrorists allied to Hizbollah , the pro-Iranian Lebanese group . |
| 5 | THE LONDON Ambulance service , hardest hit by the national overtime ban , is to investigate two deaths last week which may have been caused by staff shortages . |
| 6 | The nuns , from the Our Lady of the Passion Monastery in Daventry , had been told that the food poisoning in nearby Bedworth had been caused by Salmonella enteriditis . |
| 7 | As M3 grew so fast in the early Eighties , its performance can hardly explain the reduction in inflation , which I believe to have been caused by very high and rising unemployment together with a very large and destructive appreciation in sterling . |
| 8 | The only corroborative evidence , he suggested , was the bruising to her arm and legs , which could have been caused by the exertion of force . |
| 9 | Sources said the explosion seemed to have been caused by an incendiary device . |
| 10 | Sharks , killer whales , and false killer whales are believed to present some threat to dolphins - scar marks thought to have been caused by shark attack have been observed . |
| 11 | This has been caused by infected suburban foxes from the east ( where until last month there was no vaccination programme ) finding their way into the city centre and crossing what was once the border into West Berlin . |
| 12 | Initially few believed that the favourite would lose the race , for the scrimmaging had clearly been caused by both parties , and odds of 4–1 were laid against the outsider getting the race . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was of little concern to Dan that much of the weathering may have been caused by industrial pollution — what mattered was that science had found an answer . |
| 15 | There was , however , ‘ increasing concern [ in Europe ] about the role of soil acidification ’ ( it was not mentioned that this has been caused by air pollution ) . |
| 16 | It has been suggested that their slow decline in the last I00 million years or so has been caused by the commensurate rise in diversity of filter-feeding bivalve molluscs , which ousted them from their former habitats . |
| 17 | Indeed the most dramatic example of mass extinction known to biology has been caused by the introduction of an alien species . |
| 18 | Accidents have been caused by improperly fitted guards . |
| 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 | There have also been occasional errors of judgment , regretted by all but recognised to have been caused by the harsh financial climate on the one hand and the immense flood of new books demanding funds and shelving on the other . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They accepted that Mr Goodman would suffer financial hardship as a result , but said that they were not in a position to judge whether his dismissal had been justified , so that it could not be said that his difficulties had been caused by the company 's conduct . |
| 23 | This may have been caused by the heating and lighting used at that time , or perhaps modern communications plus far better fire fighting methods available today ensure that incidents are tackled much more quickly . |
| 24 | Similar pores have been observed also in the Z1 Carbonate of the Auk ( Brennand and van Veen 1975 ) and Claymore fields and in outcrops of Zechstein carbonates in the U.K. , where leaching is thought to have been caused by meteoric water during uplift and exposure ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Consequently , you will slowly be able to eliminate many ailments that have been caused by long standing patterns of misuse . |
| 27 | A lengthy enquiry concluded that the accident had been caused by the aircraft landing on grass , 127 feet short of the runway , so that the wheels dug into the soft earth and the plane went out of control . |
| 28 | The movement I had seen might have been caused by the passage of a bird ; on the other hand it might have been caused by the tigress ; anyway , a little investigation was necessary before proceeding farther on my way . |
| 29 | The movement I had seen might have been caused by the passage of a bird ; on the other hand it might have been caused by the tigress ; anyway , a little investigation was necessary before proceeding farther on my way . |
| 30 | In her defence the artiste explained that this had only been caused by the persistent attention paid to her by mosquitoes that night . |