Example sentences of "would have caused " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I 'd have caused the other one to slow down . |
| 2 | Brittain believes that Top Class would have caused Nashwan and Cacoethes a lot more problems had he not gone to the front so early . |
| 3 | We can all imagine the disgrace this would have caused . |
| 4 | The in-house cinema ( ‘ where they used to watch porn movies , ’ speculate the new occupiers ) , complete with massive Soviet projectors , is now used for film shows that would have caused apoplectic fits among the old inhabitants . |
| 5 | That would have caused outrage if she had been an infant , since Zuwaya do not slap other people 's children . |
| 6 | What would have caused far more concern to Wild Will would be the existence of a possibly retarded bastard in his home , at his expense . |
| 7 | A massive tribal gathering at Altamira helped to stop a $500 million loan to build hydroelectric dams which would have caused untold environmental damage . |
| 8 | The storm and passing of time would have caused its dissipation and dilution . |
| 9 | The cenotaph provides a fitting frontispiece to the chapel and here the memorial garden , cared for by members of the Keyingham Royal British Legion , now houses the remains of the ancient village cross , moved from its site a few yards away where it would have caused an obstruction to modern traffic flow . |
| 10 | Then , while the vapour condensed into oceans the high percentage of CO 2 would have caused a runaway greenhouse effect . |
| 11 | As David Norman has pointed out , the high blood pressure needed in the body and head circuit of the Brachiosaurus , with blood being pumped all the way up to its brain along a long neck , would have caused massive bleeding in the thin blood vessels of modern reptilian lungs . |
| 12 | To use the army as strike-breakers for the first time since Franco ( and Spain 's universally detested military service would have caused some intersting tests of loyalty ) would have provoked a confrontation with an unclear outcome for both sides . |
| 13 | Any live electrical circuit such as contained in an emitting direction-finder or wire-tap on Quinn 's body would have caused the detector to give out a shrill ‘ whoop ’ . |
| 14 | The famous passage about the madeleine , the little cake whose associations call back the forgotten scenes of the narrator 's childhood , would have caused the Hartleian in Wordsworth to applaud . |
| 15 | ‘ She felt that would have caused pain and anguish to William and Harry . ’ |
| 16 | I do n't believe that the fans would have caused me any problem . |
| 17 | ‘ If however , you land a blow which would have caused them serious injury and limited them in the fight , then you get a half point . ’ |
| 18 | As the 1960 Annual Report said : ‘ If even half these ( seventy-two thousand ) set owners had paid a licence fee , the TBC 's financial position would have caused the Board less anxiety ’ . |
| 19 | With neither the political crisis that Labour 's resignation from the Government would have caused , nor the industrial explosion , which — however much pacifists might fear it — would undoubtedly have created new possibilities for their politics , the momentum that had been building up since the Russian Revolution nearly a year earlier was sharply checked . |
| 20 | Withdrawal of labour , in the literal sense , would have been impractical and , more importantly , would have caused further destruction to my self-esteem in that without work ( schoolwork ) I should have had and have been less than the nothing I already felt myself to have and to be . |
| 21 | When the Dutch troops landed and passed through Wells , Ken wrote to James to say that he had withdrawn from his palace , taking his carriage horses lest they be commandeered ; indeed his previous service at William 's court would have caused much embarrassment if he had remained to meet him . |
| 22 | Within each State , of course , the accidents people are in close touch with their own airworthiness authorities , but it would have caused disruption if the accident investigators of the UK had contracted the airworthiness authorities in the USA thereby cutting the others out of the information loop . |
| 23 | She said another member of the family would have been able to help after the theft but it would have caused more inconvenience . |
| 24 | Another factor was raised in a case in which the government did not properly consult local authorities ( as required by statute ) before making some regulations : by the time the application to revoke the regulations was heard , they had been in operation for some time and to revoke them would have caused considerable administrative inconvenience which could not be justified given that no real complaint was made about the substance of the regulations . |
| 25 | Such an outcome would have caused a great deal of trouble for the council which could have been largely avoided if the resolution had been directly challenged soon after it was made under Ord. 53 . |
| 26 | By contrast , although the plaintiff in O'Reilly v. Mackman had also delayed well beyond the Ord. 53 time limit in bringing his claim , this delay would have caused no undue problem for the respondent . |
| 27 | ‘ It would have caused offence when I chose to withdraw . ’ |
| 28 | Taking my situation instanced earlier , the event ( of a cheque which would have caused a negative balance ) and its context ( a good credit history over 20 years , small mortgage in relation to the property value and an otherwise steady income ) could have been exploited as clear marketing opportunities . |
| 29 | In an expanding universe in which the density of matter varied slightly from place to place , gravity would have caused the denser regions to slow down their expansion and start contracting . |
| 30 | For her to have vetted the reporters on an individual basis ( which would have been the first instinct of the malai military left to their own devices ) would have caused offence to the point where the exercise would have been counter-productive . |