Example sentences of "have caused [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Dutch troops landed and passed through Wells , Ken wrote to James to say that he had withdrawn from his palace , taking his carriage horses lest they be commandeered ; indeed his previous service at William 's court would have caused much embarrassment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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For example , in the various stages of pre-trial procedure the party who is ultimately successful may have caused undue delay or not followed the proper procedure and been penalised at that time by the award of costs against him or her in respect of a particular hearing . |
| 4 | This misleading view of intonation must have caused unnecessary anxiety to many learners of the language . |
| 5 | Assistant mechanic Jonas found a chip pan on fire in the galley and put it out — this could have caused serious problems for the salvage attempt by a tug on the way from Lowestoft . |
| 6 | If it had gone off it would undoubtedly have caused serious injury to people in the shop . |
| 7 | It followed the discovery of a package that could have caused serious injury , writes Audrey Gillan . |
| 8 | If it transpired that the intervention notice was not justified , and Lautro rescinded it , a press notice might already have caused substantial damage to the person affected . |
| 9 | Sixty years later , the story can be told with hindsight to anew generation of readers wondering how on earth the fame of cricket could have caused major sporting and diplomatic upheavals that rocked the British Empire , involved the Australian and British governments , and put a new word in the dictionaries . |
| 10 | Episodes of acid rain ( in the range 3.0–3.6 pH ) may have caused major environmental damage to regions such as the Himalayan mountains and the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir ( where there were several reports of thick oily or sooty snowfalls at altitudes above 3600 m ) . |
| 11 | Saroj Lal , director of Lothian Racial Equality Council , said , however , that Mr McNeill 's comments might have caused greater harm than could be offset by an apology . |
| 12 | TIM EGGAR , the Energy Minister , may have caused mild panic among oil industry investors at a London conference last week when he spoke about the UK sector of the North Sea during the last two years having a ‘ strike ’ rate higher than ever before . |
| 13 | Had anything happened around two years before that might have caused all this ? |
| 14 | I mean if you 'd set precise standards in the first place , you would n't have caused all that confusion . |
| 15 | Dr Tom McManus of the IIRS defended the Institute against allegations that it had been ‘ bought ’ by industry by claiming the IIRS had turned down 15 major industries which could have caused dangerous pollution : he cited the example of a herbicide factory which could have wiped out much of the marine life in Cork Harbour . |
| 16 | The argument that the court should take account of the fact that the wearing of a seat belt would have caused other injuries of a different nature was rejected as a matter of principle in Patience v Andrews [ 1983 ] RTR 447 : it is respectfully submitted that this decision is wrong and does not give effect to the provision in s1 of the Law Reform ( Contributory Negligence ) Act 1945 , that damages should be reduced to such extent as the court thinks just and equitable . |
| 17 | It is particularly ironic that a ruler in the age of Machiavelli should have caused such obsession with personal morality , or immorality — not least because her reign produced the first politician in the British Isles , her secretary William Maitland of Lethington , who was described as ‘ machiavellian ’ . |
| 18 | Had there been no polls , the result would not have caused such unanimous amazement . |
| 19 | ‘ To see if there were any sharp edges or protrusions that could have caused such a head wound ? ’ |
| 20 | What might have caused that ? |
| 21 | Give me something that might have caused that situation to lose confidence . |
| 22 | She said another member of the family would have been able to help after the theft but it would have caused more inconvenience . |
| 23 | His letter to Mrs Thrale contained more detail , expressed with greater pungency , and it confirms the ‘ Dark Continent ’ feel of his experience : ‘ The Inhabitants , a very coarse tribe , ignorant of any language but earse [ sic ] , gathered so fast about us , that if we had not had Highlanders with us , they might have caused more alarm than pleasure . ’ |
| 24 | Brittain believes that Top Class would have caused Nashwan and Cacoethes a lot more problems had he not gone to the front so early . |
| 25 | Mr Smith , who is generally regarded as the clear favourite for the leadership , suggested that the ‘ misrepresentation ’ of Labour 's tax policy might well have caused some people not to support it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Sigmar left no heir and his passing must have caused some apprehension amongst the people of the Empire . |
| 28 | But the existence of such fields within the undergraduate curriculum is interesting not least because it raises some of the basic epistemological and educational questions in a particularly sharp form ; questions which may have caused some of the digestive problems which the CNAA has had with courses in art and design . |
| 29 | Now at the moment every doctor has in his desk a supply of what I call yellow cards , obviously because they 're yellow , which he 's asked to fill in if he thinks that a medicine which he has prescribed may have caused some nasty effect , for example to give the patient headaches , or to make them giddy , or to make them sick , or perhaps even something more serious than that . |
| 30 | In France yesterday , Criquette Head 's Hatoof was beaten by Francois Boutin 's Kenbu in the Prix Imprudence at Maisons-Laffitte but lack of early pace may have caused this surprise result . |