Example sentences of "be caused by [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among drug users many of these symptoms may be caused by the drugs used , withdrawal of drugs , or , alternatively , symptoms may be suppressed by the use of drugs . |
| 2 | It 's thought that the fire had been caused by a welders spark . |
| 3 | Eisenhower had presided over a period of grim Cold War tension which he , like most Americans , believed had been caused by the ambitions of world communism . |
| 4 | In part this has been caused by the closures of collieries and factories , but the sharp drop in chapel or church attendance also means that fewer people are singing . |
| 5 | Our serious problems have been caused by the deals that have been negotiated by the Government . |
| 6 | There 's no way it should be that complicated a lot of the problems are caused by the rules being so complicated that you have to be working in that particular field |
| 7 | Hot flushes are caused by the capillaries suddenly filling with blood to give a sudden rush to the face , neck and shoulders , with extra body heat and perspiration . |
| 8 | One such difference is that whereas thermometer readings are caused by the temperatures they signify ( that 's what correlates them ) , with bees and honey it 's the other way round : what correlates them is the fact , not that honey makes bees , but that bees make honey — the sign causes what it signifies . |
| 9 | Other delays in obtaining access to the goods are caused by the importers ' need to produce an ever increasing number of documents . |
| 10 | Beneath my feet and beside me to my right , were the sheer pale grey rocks that were the andesitic relics of all the ancient turbulence and torture which had been and was still being caused by the plates ' gentle , turgid but quite inevitable meeting . |
| 11 | While the causal theory suggests that there is only one way in which justified true beliefs can get to be knowledge ( by being caused by the facts ) , the conditional theory is willing to countenance any way , causal or not , which preserves the truth of the two subjunctive conditionals . |
| 12 | The children were followed up some four years later at secondary schools so that the possibility could be considered that such differences were attributable to initial differences in their ability and adjustment rather than being caused by the schools ( Rutter et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 13 | An official said most of the deaths were caused by the inmates . |
| 14 | Dr David Abramovich , a consultant gynaecologist working closely with the TSSIS , says : ‘ It is caused by a bacteria which is commonly found on the skin , or in the nose , armpit , groin or vagina of about one third of the population without causing any harmful effect . |
| 15 | Only 18 cases were reported last year , yet the disease is caused by a bacteria present on one in three people . |
| 16 | A capsize fall is caused by the forces acting on the daggerboard at high speeds ( see Fig 34 ) . |
| 17 | Lung cancer , for example , is caused by the substances that accompany nicotine in tobacco smoke , not by nicotine itself . |
| 18 | The basic argument of this tradition was that revolution was caused by the machinations of secret societies , who used their knowledge of occult forces to undermine authority and the stability of governments . |
| 19 | The coroner Nicholas Gardiner recorded a verdict of accidental death … saying he was quite satisfied the brain damage was caused by the forceps … but he joined the health authority in extending his sympathies to the Taylor family . |
| 20 | Mr Reynolds looked back also to an era of ‘ bureaucratic and commercial indifference which was perhaps understandable in the light of history but nevertheless misguided ’ and which resulted in even more destruction than was caused by the Troubles , such as of Coole Park ( the inspiration for two of Yeats 's most famous poems ) and of Bowenscourt in the 1960s , as well as much of Dublin 's eighteenth-century architecture . |
| 21 | We could suggest that there could be beliefs of type 1 if there were beliefs which were justified by appeal to the facts and that a belief could be so justified if it was caused by the facts . |
| 22 | Interestingly , while for positivist criminologists the causes of and cures for crime were matters that always needed ‘ more research ’ , for left idealists they needed no research at all — they were already clearly known : crime was caused by the inequalities and degradations of capitalism , and was cured by the transition to socialism . |
| 23 | In 1985 considerable disquiet was caused by the methods used by Greater Manchester Police to deal with protesters during the visit of the then Home Secretary , Leon Brittan , to Manchester University . |