Example sentences of "had been cause by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The guard 's sorrow had been caused by the vet 's mistaken optimism as to the dog 's ailment . |
| 4 | A panel of medical and scientific experts based them on how likely it was that cancer had been caused by the victim 's working conditions . |
| 5 | Not that he believed that the firing he had heard had been caused by the French . |
| 6 | A big reason was that much of the slump had been caused by the doubling of oil prices in 1973 ; as the shock was absorbed , growth picked up . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ A workman , who had been injured through the breaking of a defective part in the machine with which he was working , brought an action of damages against his employers , and later convened as second defenders the manufacturers of the machine , who had supplied it to his employers , on averments to the effect that the accident had been caused by the fault of the manufacturers in that they failed to supply his employers with a machine which was safe for use by their servants . |
| 9 | For the first time Isabel wondered if those airs had been caused by the same stupid helplessness which seemed to be gripping her . |
| 10 | When he came to see me , I said that I would write to the chairlady of the health authority , who replied that she was very sorry that this had happened but asked whether the gentleman could prove that the burn marks had been caused by the deposit from the hospital chimney . |
| 11 | It was also claimed that a 25-km oil slick , observed in July 1989 some 35 km off the Californian coastline , had been caused by the Exxon Valdez making its way in a bad state of repair to dry dock in San Diego , California . |
| 12 | Sabalat said that the delay had been caused by the CEP 's shortage of funds and by logistical difficulties , including delays in the receipt of ballot papers donated by the Canadian government . |
| 13 | The vacancy had been caused by the conviction and imprisonment for three months of the former MP , Wilbert Moss , on charges of offering money to a magistrate to drop a prosecution against a constituent . |
| 14 | The decision was made after a panel of judges in the islands concluded that cancer and other illnesses had been caused by the US tests . |
| 15 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 16 | Boyle showed the jury a scar which he claimed had been caused by the crowbar . |
| 17 | The brake problems had been caused by the front wheel bearings having mostly ceased to exist , sending the whole brake assembly in and out of alignment . |