Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] cause [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A feature of the safety approach favoured by the CEGB is the use of microprocessor technology in a bid to side-step the errors by operators which helped cause the Three Mile Island accident in the US four years ago .
2 Er , nobody looked at the time which , which did cause a problem .
3 It has been used effectively for example in destroying odours from maggot farms which had caused a nuisance over a wide area , for more than twenty years and not even a tall chimney was necessary to remove the resultant exhaust gases .
4 But it was n't that which had caused the perspiration to stand out on her skin .
5 The whole truth of course he had not sussed out , for who could possibly imagine that luck of hers , which had caused the telephone to ring at precisely the right moment .
6 Mr Geoffrey Robertson , QC , submitted that the scenes which had caused the board to ban the video were to be seen as ‘ manifestations of a woman 's subconsciousness ’ .
7 The Korean War , which had caused the US to propose German rearmament in the first place , had settled into stalemate and the danger of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe had receded : German rearmament no longer seemed necessary .
8 Colonel Philips explained that they had thought initially that they had discovered a danger similar to that which had caused the Hob 's Lane disaster .
9 The negotiations started positively , with agreement on separate Palestinian representation within the joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation , the issue which had caused the collapse of the second round of talks .
10 This followed the arrest in Switzerland of Gerald Andries , one of the French agents against whom a warrant remained outstanding in connection with the bombing of the Greenpeace ship in Auckland harbour in July 1985 , which had caused the death of one of its crew [ see p. 38480 ] .
11 The plan , which included conservation , diversification and financial assistance , was designed to combat the severe depletion of east-coast fish stocks , particularly off Newfoundland and Nova Scotia , which had caused the closure of several plants and the unemployment of several thousand fishermen and processing workers .
12 What had caused the sieges to be abandoned was the news that Cumberland was at last making his great move forward .
13 And also it was a trick question because Mother knew full well what had caused the bruises ; she was just testing his nerve .
14 What had caused the change ?
15 As I stared at her wondering what had caused the condition , I decided that it must be some kind of vitamin deficiency .
16 Nothing lived in the entire village , and there was no sign of what had caused the deaths .
17 And what had caused the overpopulation ?
18 Scared pelicans flapped away , and Ellen came up from the galley to see what had caused the commotion .
19 Amazingly , he recovered , but no-one could ascertain what had caused the fits .
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