Example sentences of "been cause [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's been caused with a plant being put down in that now . |
| 2 | The infant had defects that were alleged to have been caused as a result of injuries , when in the womb , sustained when an accident occurred to her mother as a consequence of the negligence of a railway company . |
| 3 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 4 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 5 | It 's been caused by a delay in the operation to move a bridge crossing the M4 near the Severn estuary . |
| 6 | In a Minnesota case in 1979 , for instance , a young intern 's casual comment that a laceration appeared to have been caused by a knife later led the injured woman to change her story completely and come to believe , under hypnosis , that she was stabbed repeatedly , despite subsequent medical evidence . |
| 7 | At first the explosions were thought to have been caused by a gas leak , but gradually the police were able to piece together evidence linking the disaster to the Weathermen , one of whom had attached a wire to the wrong terminal . |
| 8 | Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring . |
| 9 | There could have been an innocent explanation for the dust cloud : it could have been caused by a herd of cows being driven to market , by a Prussian regiment on exercise , or even by a work gang hammering cobbles into the highway 's bed of chalk and flint , yet the musket-fire Sharpe had heard earlier , and the Presence of the enemy Dragoons on the southern bank of the Sambre suggested a more sinister cause . |
| 10 | The court accepted that the plaintiff 's injury could have been caused by a brain shake without any actual blow to the head . |
| 11 | Sometimes the testicles suffer from under or over-suspension , either of which can cause discomfort , but this is unlikely to have been caused by a vasectomy operation . |
| 12 | Although preliminary speculation was that the crash might have been caused by a bomb , accident investigators revealed that the plane had nose-dived after the right engine suddenly went into reverse thrust ; electronic safety systems designed to cope with this had apparently failed , and a warning light had either malfunctioned or had not been believed by the pilot . |
| 13 | This huge opening in the moor , as large as a tennis court , has been caused by a collapse of the surface coming to rest in a debris of fallen boulders twenty to thirty feet lower . |
| 14 | The sudden interest in the beach has been caused by a bumper cockle harvest which , according to experts , happens every five to 10 years . |
| 15 | The sudden interest in the beach has been caused by a bumper cockle harvest which , according to experts , happens every five to 10 years . |
| 16 | Initial investigations suggested that the crash had been caused by a combination of bad weather and either pilot error or a failure in the communications system . |
| 17 | The erosion is believed to have been caused by a combination of : i ) the relative rise in sea level brought about by the slow sinking of southeastern England ; ii ) an actual rise in sea level locally since the 1970s ; and iii ) the reduction of saltmarshes due to human-made sea defences . |
| 18 | Have you ever come out in a rash after working in the garden , and thought it might have been caused by a plant you were handling ? |
| 19 | Fire investigation officer Alan Haddock told an inquest yesterday that he believed the fire had been caused by a butane gas heater or a portable lamp igniting a mixture of petrol vapour and air . |
| 20 | Fire investigation officer Alan Haddock told an inquest yesterday that he believed the fire had been caused by a butane gas heater or a portable lamp igniting a mixture of petrol vapour and air . |
| 21 | The basis of her legal case was that this condition had been caused by a motor accident four months before her birth in which her mother lost control of a pick-up truck during a cattle muster on the family ranch . |
| 22 | The lack of reversal when splitting data by accident estimates may have been caused by a number of films with very little peripheral information in them , or it may simply have been an effect of the high correlation between risk and accident estimates . |
| 23 | That the windscreen wipers started to work can properly be said to have been caused by a set of things including the state of the wipers ' mountings and the smooth surface of the windscreen as well as the switch 's being flipped . |
| 24 | It 's thought the blaze may have been caused by a spark from a firework used in a stage act getting into the air heating system . |
| 25 | It 's thought the blaze may have been caused by a spark from a firework used in a stage act getting into the air heating system . |
| 26 | In a recent review of Germany 's environmental performance , the OECD criticised the confusion in Germany 's definition of waste that has been caused by a desire to encourage recycling . |
| 27 | Sources close to the ministry said later that early indications suggested the deaths may have been caused by a fault with a stove in the tent . |
| 28 | If the leak has been caused by a puncture in the middle of a pipe run , cut through it and remove about 20mm ( 8in ) of pipe so you can reconnect the cut ends with a special repair compression fitting . |
| 29 | The doctor said the injury could have been caused in a number of ways and though the soldier was limping he was ‘ surprised that such a minor injury would cause a limp . ’ |