Example sentences of "[adv] have caused " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have seemed an odd way of treating a friend , but if one knew Emily it would perhaps have caused no surprise . |
| 2 | Such a piecemeal dismemberment of an integrated service would obviously have caused difficulties for the whole of the area covered by the ILEA . |
| 3 | Had there been no polls , the result would not have caused such unanimous amazement . |
| 4 | Looking back , he says , County 's rapid growth might not have caused problems had the company 's management — and he does not absolve himself from blame — had more depth . |
| 5 | He found that although in theory , workovers should not have caused changes to the wells ' productivity , productivity had been reduced — by up to 40 per cent in some cases . |
| 6 | It might not have prevented her feelings for him from developing as they had , but it would certainly not have caused a change in the atmosphere in this place , and he might have remained livable with . |
| 7 | I do n't know whether it was mental or pyschological , but Watford should not have caused the problems they did . |
| 8 | Miss Golightly said she has left the car in the back lane behind her house but only late at night when it could not have caused an obstruction . |
| 9 | The district controller of the Portland Coastguard , Donald McDonald , said he had not been told of the trip by the canoeing group but that the sea conditions were ‘ quite favourable ’ and should not have caused any problems . |
| 10 | If it transpired that the intervention notice was not justified , and Lautro rescinded it , a press notice might already have caused substantial damage to the person affected . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't see fit to compound this tragedy by adding to the deep distress that the incident must already have caused to you , the deceased 's relatives and others , ’ he said . |
| 12 | The child of one of her lodgers died in her house in April of an undiagnosed heart complaint — the tiny thing 's heart simply stopped as it lay in its cot — and though she was sorry for it and sympathetic to the last degree she was aware that inside herself she shrugged and felt none of the horror and distress such an event would once have caused her . |
| 13 | ‘ I would never willingly have caused you problems , ’ she told him earnestly . |
| 14 | This may also have caused the effects of support to be obscured . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This could well have caused ‘ monkey ’ to indicate any lot of five and , by extension , multiples of five such as 500 . |
| 17 | Had it not been for one other factor , it seems likely that the combined pressures upon English both from inside and outside the discipline might well have caused it to accommodate itself more directly to the service of " vocationalism " , and " social responsibility " , and thus the needs of interdisciplinary and applied work . |
| 18 | A number of those involved were artisans from the Kentish towns , some of whom , particularly those connected with the cloth trade , may have had a special grievance , as a sharp decline in cloth exports after 1448 could well have caused local unemployment ( 66 , pp.96–7 ) . |
| 19 | Seeing Rohan , even fleetingly in a crowd , would simply have caused her more pain , especially at a wedding with all its attendant might-have-beens , she told herself forcefully . |
| 20 | He did not reply to the letter I left on his desk until months later , by which time he must have overcome the initial shock my flight must surely have caused him . |
| 21 | I mean I do n't think it was a gas leak , it would n't have caused an explosion to the extent of that . |
| 22 | I mean if you 'd set precise standards in the first place , you would n't have caused all that confusion . |
| 23 | That same ability to identify helps her appreciate the hurts she may sometimes have caused others . |
| 24 | Tax would then have caused the world 's productive assets to be used inefficiently . |
| 25 | If it had gone off it would undoubtedly have caused serious injury to people in the shop . |
| 26 | This will certainly have caused concern in the Middle Ages and some unfortunates may have been considered to be " possessed " of evil spirits and treated accordingly . |