Example sentences of "have been cause [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Thanks to the sophistication of modern mining techniques , little damage would have been caused to most other properties .
2 He says it could be an accident , but it could also have been caused by another person .
3 ‘ It could have been caused by some sort of disaster or accident .
4 At the time I thought little more about it , but later I realized that it must have been caused by some powerful pain-killing drug .
5 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 .
6 This suggests that the violence might have been caused by these high hormone levels , not conditioning .
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