Example sentences of "have [be] cause by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Indeed the most dramatic example of mass extinction known to biology has been caused by the introduction of an alien species . |
| 3 | Menlo Park California-based Network General Corp is offering another system for its Sniffer Network Analyser : a new version will run on the Toshiba Corp T6400/DX2 colour portable running at 50MHz ; currently the new implementation supports only Ethernet , but Token Ring support is promised for the second quarter ; the move looks as if it has been caused by the chronic shortage of the Compaq Computer Corp machines that form the basis for the existing Sniffer systems . |
| 4 | The four month hitch has been caused by the need for a process change in cache memory , without which , Cypress wo n't get good yields for the part . |
| 5 | ‘ No insolvency proceedings shall be invalidated by any formal defect or by any irregularity , unless the court before which objection is made considers that substantial injustice has been caused by the defect or irregularity , and that the injustice can not be remedied by any order of the court . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Much of this confusion has been caused by the assumption that dog-whelks are poor taxonomists and can not discriminate between species of barnacles . |
| 8 | Particular anger has been caused by the treatment of abstentions as votes in favour of the proposal . |
| 9 | ( 4 ) The subsection relieves an applicant from the consequences of the failure to exhibit a notice in compliance with subss. ( 2 ) ( b ) or ( 3 ) ( b ) where the failure has been caused by the removal , obscuring , etc. , of the notice through no fault of the applicant and the applicant has taken reasonable steps to protect and replace the notice . |
| 10 | However , concern has been caused by the fact that between 1976 and 1989 the ratio of debt to personal disposable income rose from 50% to over 100% ( BEQB May 1989 ) , and since 1980 the growth in credit has substantially exceeded the growth in income . |
| 11 | ‘ Partly that has been caused by the recession but it has also been triggered by technological advances . |
| 12 | Yet if part of the problem at Ibrox in respect of injury has been caused by the addition of European Champions league matches to an already congested domestic schedule , it is only Vogts 's good fortune that no German side was able to make it to the last eight of the European Cup . |
| 13 | The by-election for which no date has yet been fixed has been caused by the sudden death last month of Mrs Judith Chaplin , a former political adviser to the Prime Minister . |
| 14 | ‘ It is therefore difficult to know what policy objective could have prompted the legislature to confine entitlement to claim compensation to post-natal injuries in a case where the fatality has been caused by the negligence of a third party . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The only corroborative evidence , he suggested , was the bruising to her arm and legs , which could have been caused by the exertion of force . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ My doctor wrote a report to say this could well have been caused by the accident . ’ |
| 21 | A spokesman said : ‘ The damage may have been caused by the surf dragging them over the rocks . |
| 22 | It could have been caused by the body falling . |
| 23 | Must have been caused by the explosion that brought down the plane or by the impact of striking the water . ’ |
| 24 | Parents have reported problems which might have been caused by the separation or earlier conflict : truancy , clinging , withdrawn behaviour , bed-wetting , aggressiveness , nightmares and poor work at school ( Mitchell , 1985 ) . |
| 25 | The Archbishop of Canterbury , Thomas Bradwardine , died of the plague in August 1349 , but none of the chief officers of state succumbed , and amongst the titled nobility only the death of the Earl of Pembroke in August 1348 may possibly have been caused by the plague . |
| 26 | ‘ Some confusion may have been caused by the use of the word ‘ agent . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Some confusion may have been caused by the use of the word ‘ agent . ’ |
| 28 | As a general principle the earlier the better for an Intervention because less damage will have been caused by the disease and the denial system will be less entrenched . |
| 29 | This in turn may have been caused by the fact that the gastropod that previously controlled the echinoderm was prized by human tourists . |
| 30 | 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 . |