Example sentences of "[to-vb] been cause [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As M3 grew so fast in the early Eighties , its performance can hardly explain the reduction in inflation , which I believe to have been caused by very high and rising unemployment together with a very large and destructive appreciation in sterling . |
| 3 | Sources said the explosion seemed to have been caused by an incendiary device . |
| 4 | Sharks , killer whales , and false killer whales are believed to present some threat to dolphins - scar marks thought to have been caused by shark attack have been observed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Similar pores have been observed also in the Z1 Carbonate of the Auk ( Brennand and van Veen 1975 ) and Claymore fields and in outcrops of Zechstein carbonates in the U.K. , where leaching is thought to have been caused by meteoric water during uplift and exposure ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Fergie 's ill temper was thought to have been caused by an argument on the telephone with Texan pal Johnny Bryan . |
| 11 | The problems of all five aircraft were thought to have been caused by fuel with a low octane level . |
| 12 | Ten firemen are in a special isolation ward with ‘ glowing fingertips ’ , nausea and diarrhoea believed to have been caused by chemicals . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | These problems have been compounded in the 1980s by the government 's encouragement of the sale of council houses and by the rise in house prices in the owner-occupied sector , so that the acceleration in the urban-rural shift in the mid 1980s is not likely to have been caused by the lower paid . |
| 15 | I note the circles in wheat-fields , alleged to have been caused by extra-terrestrial visitors , are again in the news . |
| 16 | The man , suffering from a leg injury believed to have been caused by the fall , was taken to hospital for treatment . |
| 17 | It was believed to have been caused by high levels of SO2 or NO2 pollution from East Germany or Poland . |
| 18 | The unrest , which was connected with further proposed petrol price and bus fare increases and also involved student protests , was believed to have been caused by a Supreme Court decision not to proceed with corruption charges against various former ministers . |
| 19 | Merchant Navy Minister Carlo Vizzini said on April 11 that an official inquiry would start immediately and that the accident appeared to have been caused by human error . |
| 20 | The explosion , the worst in Turkish mining history , appeared to have been caused by the ignition of methane gas , which in 20 seconds had reached dangerous levels inside the mine , apparently foiling a sophisticated alarm system . |
| 21 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 22 | This latter finding implies that the hypocholesterolaemia is unlikely to have been caused by the metabolic effect of an occult tumour . |
| 23 | Symptoms were unchanged in 7% of patients and therefore were unlikely to have been caused by gall stones . |
| 24 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Some of the decline in compliance , says the report , is likely to have been caused by the cooler , wetter conditions of 1991 , resulting in a lower rate of " die-off " of bacteria , and an increase in the frequency in operation of storm overflows , which generally do not have any treatment to reduce bacterial numbers . |
| 27 | In certain running-down cases , however , a defendant should be asked to make discovery ( eg latent defect cases , where the plaintiff may want to see all his maintenance and servicing records ; accidents alleged to have been caused by sudden and unexpected illness or death , where the plaintiff wants to see the medical records ; and of course claims in nuisance against highway authorities and their contractors , where discovery can often reveal breaches of prescribed safety codes and bad accident records ) . |
| 28 | Banbury vet , Clifford Butler , said the dog suffered multiple injuries unlikely to have been caused by just one kick as Hughes claimed . |
| 29 | A car and the garage in which it was parked at a house in Filey Road , Scarborough were gutted by a fire thought to have been caused by an electrical fault on the vehicle . |
| 30 | A car and the garage in which it was parked at a house in Filey Road , Scarborough were gutted by a fire thought to have been caused by an electrical fault on the vehicle . |