Example sentences of "[vb past] caused [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd caused no end of problems for the nomes . |
| 2 | And that arrogant devil Christie Goldsborough who 'd caused the trouble , so far as Frizingley was concerned at any rate , by egging Ben on to cut the wages at Braithwaite 's mill . |
| 3 | What he discovered caused the jottings by John 's father to fall into place , separating fact from speculation , and what follows is based mainly on collating those two sources . |
| 4 | One version of what then ensued caused an uproar in France when it was published , a few months later , in Le Matin — through the evident complicity of a coterie of officers ardently desiring to install de Castelnau on Joffre 's throne . |
| 5 | His driving licence , also Canadian , had caused no problems in the renting of a compact car on long-term lease . |
| 6 | The Crown admitted that the judge 's direction as to the effect of good character was flawed in the manner contended for by the defendant but , adopting the view of the Court of Appeal , while admitting the error , contended that it had caused no injustice . |
| 7 | And as far as Greg could judge there were a great many writers who had found a place in the book who were quite as obscure or more so — poets whose flame had died with the end of the war , one-off playwrights whose experimental verse dramas had caused no more than a ripple of interest even in their own time . |
| 8 | The commentator even remarked on the fact that the two loose horses leading the field had caused no hindrance . |
| 9 | They were given suspended prison sentences of up to two years on the grounds that they had caused no serious damage . |
| 10 | Salvage experts extinguished a fire on an Iranian oil tanker early yesterday and stemmed a leak that had caused a 30-mile oil slick 100 miles off Morocco , a maritime official said . |
| 11 | Yeast from the beer beer in the brewery had caused a scaly rash to grow on her forearms and across the backs of her hands . |
| 12 | A disabled man who is unable to speak typed out a message on his computer to call the fire brigade when he woke to find a candle had caused a small fire in his bedroom . |
| 13 | They correctly assumed that the viral DNA had been inserted into the DNA of a normal gene involved in limb development and so had caused a mutation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This had caused a ripple of protest . |
| 16 | The growth of German industry , the flight from the land , the Ostflucht and the ending of serfdom had all broken the bonds of the Prussian feudal system ; had caused a massive upheaval in terms of social and geographical mobility ; had caused a radical change and development in German class- and national consciousness , and had created problems of identity deep within the German consciousness , precisely because they took place much later than in the west European nations . |
| 17 | The growth of German industry , the flight from the land , the Ostflucht and the ending of serfdom had all broken the bonds of the Prussian feudal system ; had caused a massive upheaval in terms of social and geographical mobility ; had caused a radical change and development in German class- and national consciousness , and had created problems of identity deep within the German consciousness , precisely because they took place much later than in the west European nations . |
| 18 | The Reich 's rearmament programme and the continued high level of subsidy to Danzig had caused a severe drain on German gold reserves and had upset the balance of payments . |
| 19 | Her Persian lamb coat had overshadowed the treasurer 's three-year-old mink , and her hat had caused a sensation . |
| 20 | The years of resentment had caused a great deal of inner pain . |
| 21 | The scathing attack came just two years after Sir Claus had caused a storm by warning our crumbling schools were in danger of turning out the dunces of Europe . |
| 22 | The Boy Looked At Johnny , the now alarmingly naive book he 'd written with Julie Burchill ( soon to become a temporary Mrs Parsons ) had caused a splash , and both writers resigned from the NME on the same day . |
| 23 | The muscle wastage had caused a dropped foot — like the little girl who had been treated by Alec . |
| 24 | Harry Wills ' campaign had caused a lot of soul searching . |
| 25 | The impact of the hammer hitting the brass casing of the cartridge had caused a flash of blue light followed by an enormous bang . |
| 26 | He described the Vietnam war as a ‘ noble cause ’ , charged that Carter 's economic policy had caused a ‘ severe depression ’ and raised doubts about the theory of evolution . |
| 27 | In 1932 Mozart was not regarded as an infallible god-like figure as he is now , and a new biography of the composer by Sacheverall Sitwell had caused a certain reaction . |
| 28 | Archaeological discoveries in the latter half of the nineteenth-century had caused a considerable stir in Europe . |
| 29 | The other eye had been closed for most of the fight by a left hook that had caused a large amount of swelling both above and below the brow . |
| 30 | He appealed to Croll 's theory of the ice ages to explain how , at certain points in time , the amount of water locked up as ice had caused a lowering of the sea level and hence the opening up of land connections . |