Example sentences of "[verb] been the cause [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The absence of such a universally adopted standard whereby the human conscience could have been developed to have a significant influence on human behaviour , has been the cause of much failure in efforts to administer justice . |
| 2 | Its location has been the cause of much dispute because the church was brutally destroyed by the Lancastrian army in their sack of the town in 1461 . |
| 3 | A snap decision to turn has been the cause of many serious stalling and spinning accidents , often when , in fact , there was ample room for a landing ahead . |
| 4 | The three Western Allies do n't agree with the East Germans on this point , which has been the cause of many disagreements in the past . |
| 5 | That could have been the cause of all the trouble , I suppose . |
| 6 | Whatever may have been the cause of that allegiance to the ‘ gods ’ of their beliefs , does not really matter , for the teachings of all of them contain items aide wisdom which are available to all humanity , and can be used to provide further units of ‘ goodness ’ for the minds of men to assign to the store which is the Created God . |
| 7 | It would be unwise for the hon. and learned Gentleman or for anyone else to draw conclusions about what might have been the cause of this accident . |
| 8 | Fowler had been told not to press the old man , but the parentage of Cissie 's baby had been the cause of much of the gossip . |
| 9 | Some element beyond simple senility had been the cause of this . |
| 10 | ‘ Doctors have been the cause of many people dying . ’ |
| 11 | This is somewhat ironical in that , as we shall see , it is Engels 's anthropological enthusiasm and his trust in Morgan which has been the source of many of the points in his work which appear now as unacceptable to anthropologists and which have been the cause of some of the most damaging objections to his theories . |