Example sentences of "[verb] been cause by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pravda may write that the refugee mess has been caused by ‘ provocations ’ and ‘ revanchist propaganda ’ from Bonn . |
| 2 | This has been caused by infected suburban foxes from the east ( where until last month there was no vaccination programme ) finding their way into the city centre and crossing what was once the border into West Berlin . |
| 3 | There was , however , ‘ increasing concern [ in Europe ] about the role of soil acidification ’ ( it was not mentioned that this has been caused by air pollution ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Indeed the most dramatic example of mass extinction known to biology has been caused by the introduction of an alien species . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Much unnecessary anxiety about the disease has been caused by media hysteria and misinformation . |
| 8 | At the end , Cain concludes that his banishment has been caused by his refusal to sink his identity into a higher form . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Much-travelled Piontek believes England 's lack of goals in recent internationals has been caused by pressure on the new crop of strikers . |
| 11 | There are also problems at Wild Cat Tor , where serious erosion has been caused by climbers going up to the Blue Grass and Singing Kettle buttresses . |
| 12 | What part of any contraction in the demand for elderly workers has been caused by state action over the setting of pension eligibility terms , and what part has been due to the autonomous decisions of employers , must for the moment remain an open question . |
| 13 | ‘ And the only violence so far has been caused by your friend — pardon , your associate — Steve . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In large part , this has been caused by demand derived from earlier investors . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Where loss has been caused by an act or omission which is of a comparatively mechanical character , rather than involving an exercise of business discretion , the courts have , in contrast , shown themselves to be more willing to impose liability . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Much of this confusion has been caused by the assumption that dog-whelks are poor taxonomists and can not discriminate between species of barnacles . |
| 22 | Particular anger has been caused by the treatment of abstentions as votes in favour of the proposal . |
| 23 | ( 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 . |
| 24 | The possibility that these momentarily high pressures may damage jointed rocks can not be ignored , but there is , curiously enough , no direct evidence as yet that actual damage has been caused by waves of this type . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | If the damage has been caused by an insured peril covered under Part B e.g. fire damage , then the damage to the freezer would be covered under Part B — Household Contents . |
| 27 | Subsequent legislation and regulation have only supplemented the 1974 Act that made directors , managers and other officers liable to prosecution where they have consented to or have connived at the committing of any offence or where an offence has been caused by neglect on their part . |
| 28 | In part this change of attitude has been caused by an awareness that the earliest manuscript of the Histories , which contains only an abridged version of the first six books , does not reflect Gregory 's own intentions . |
| 29 | Student leaders at Queen 's University say the acute shortage of student houses flats and bedsits has been caused by higher standards for accommodation demanded by the Housing Executive . |
| 30 | The sudden interest in the beach has been caused by a bumper cockle harvest which , according to experts , happens every five to 10 years . |