Example sentences of "[been] caused by [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The delay had been caused by one set of papers going temporarily astray in the post . |
| 2 | Again on Bruno Zanardi 's restoration of Antelami 's ‘ Months ’ , Fiorella Minervino wrote that the marble had lost its characteristic surface veining ; in her opinion , this was probably due to the use of a chemical solvent to extract the metallic salts which had appeared on the surface , or it may have been caused by some kind of abrasive treatment . |
| 3 | ‘ It could have been caused by some sort of disaster or accident . |
| 4 | A spokeswoman for the Department of Marine said that tests carried out last year on the swans ruled out claims that the deaths had been caused by high levels of copper poisoning . |
| 5 | It was believed to have been caused by high levels of SO2 or NO2 pollution from East Germany or Poland . |
| 6 | Calcutta 's police chief , Tushar Talukdar , said forensic scientists would decide whether the explosion , which ripped through the buildings shortly after midnight , had been caused by careless handling of a cache of explosives or by a bomb . |
| 7 | The fatal blasts , Morales said , had been caused by large amounts of petrol from a ruptured PEMEX pipeline and lesser amounts of gas , including the volatile solvent hexane , which had leaked into the sewers . |