Example sentences of "[prep] cause [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colum Cill , after causing the Battle of the Books , came back to Tara for the Convention of Drumceat at the Hill of Synod , where they discussed what to do about poets . |
| 2 | A threat expressed in the form ‘ if I catch you when there are no police about ’ addressed to an adversary is not caught by the section , since it is not a threat of such as to cause the victim of it to believe that he will be the object of ‘ immediate ’ violence . |
| 3 | Because there exists no distinction between causing the experience by acting and the maintenance of the experience requiring action , and so no conception of acting in order to experience a something in the external world . |
| 4 | Take your own advantage of the difficult atmosphere by realizing that things can not get much worse so it is worth while going out on a limb to say what you want to say without worrying about causing a negative reaction ! |
| 5 | Annunciata , coming in singing with coffee , was reprimanded for causing a headache to begin on that instant and Wilson could not help feeling triumphant . |
| 6 | Snell has been criticized for causing a decline in handwriting by promoting his dull copperplate style , but his practice and teaching of a simpler and standardized mode of handwriting most effectively met the needs of clerks in the growing number of commercial houses . |
| 7 | In spite of these disadvantages , Macmillan 's next exploit , in June 1842 , was to ride the seventy miles into Glasgow , a trip which took him two days and resulted in his being fined the sum of five shillings for causing a slight injury to a small girl who ran across his path . |
| 8 | A dog breeder has been fined eight hundred pounds for causing a noise nuisance . |
| 9 | A flying instructor has been blamed for causing a helicopter crash . |
| 10 | Shell U K will have to wait until tomorrow to hear what sentence it receives for causing a 30 mile oil slick which polluted the River Mersey . |
| 11 | And Shell U K will have to wait until tomorrow to hear what sentence it receives for causing a 30 mile oil slick , which polluted the River Mersey . |
| 12 | Now I 've done it — I 'll have a fight on my hands and we 'll get chucked out of the café and be arrested for Causing an Affray ! |
| 13 | Electronic mailing lists like this can easily be infiltrated by other supporters , but thankfully segregation is n't necessary , and so far policemen on horses have yet to be called in to arrest computer terminals ( or even Sonic the Hedgehog ) for causing an affray . |
| 14 | It was pure idiocy for countries to destroy each other on account of the few responsible for causing the war ; ‘ there was always talk of a long peace , and things were only really being made ready for this war . ’ |
| 15 | Should any payment be made to you or any member of your party by us in any of the circumstances referred to in this section , we reserve the right to claim in your place against the person or organisation responsible for causing the illness , injury or death . |
| 16 | He was blamed for causing the death of his friend Gian-Carlo , son of director Francis Ford Coppola , in a boating accident in 1986 , and ordered to do 400 hours ' community service . |
| 17 | In Aethelberht 's laws , the king 's smith was protected by a special wergeld , called a leodgeld , amounting to 100 Kentish ‘ shillings ’ , which would be paid for causing the smith 's death ( Loyn 1962 , p. 103 ) . |
| 18 | A RAPIST was jailed for seven years yesterday for causing the death of a pensioner . |
| 19 | FORMER Tory Chancellor Nigel Lawson , blamed by many for causing the housing slump , has been forced to slash the price of his luxury home by more than a quarter . |
| 20 | No , the fans were only being impatient with three false starts and directed their anger at 30-year-old Johnson for causing the final one . |
| 21 | Thus , while Sharpe , White , and Bernard do not believe that the Arminians should be blamed for causing the civil war of the 1640s , Tyacke , John Morrill , and other historians have conversely argued that Laud and his fellow prelates should bear a major part of the responsibility for provoking what they regard as ‘ England 's wars of religion ’ . |
| 22 | He has blamed the police for causing the May Day riot , siding with the Front . |
| 23 | Where there has been a gang fight , as a result of which one of the participants is injured , it is sometimes impossible to prove who was responsible for causing the injury ( because of the general mêleé , and because of identification difficulties when the incident occurred at night ) . |
| 24 | Not content with damning Churchill for causing the Dardanelles disaster , attempting to stifle Bolshevism at birth , returning to the Gold Standard and trying to hold on to India , John Charmley faults him for opposing appeasement . |
| 25 | While waiting , she gazed solemnly at the sinister Bridge of Sighs a few yards away and thought of the prisoners who 'd gazed out of its thickly grilled windows , looking for the last time on the beauties of Venice before they were incarcerated — or executed for causing the displeasure of powerful nobles . |
| 26 | If a car is unlawfully taken and then returned in a damaged state , it seems absolutely right that the person or persons responsible for taking it should be assumed to be responsible for causing the damage unless they can prove the contrary . |
| 27 | Variously suggested as Iraqi motives for causing the slick were ( i ) the desire to impede any allied amphibious assault on the Kuwaiti or south Iraqi shore as part of a ground offensive ; ( ii ) the intention of damaging Saudi coastal installations ; and ( iii ) the hope of provoking the allies into launching a full-scale ground offensive ahead of their preferred schedule . |
| 28 | He also gave assurances that those responsible for Kang 's death would be prosecuted and , on May 2 , issued an apology for the killing , stating that he was " deeply sorry for causing the people pain and sorrow " . |
| 29 | It followed a campaign by environmental groups , who blamed drift-netting for causing the unintended deaths of whales , dolphins and sea birds … |
| 30 | The owner of a private beach in southwestern England is suing the local water company for causing the contamination of his land . |