Example sentences of "[vb past] cause [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A feature of the safety approach favoured by the CEGB is the use of microprocessor technology in a bid to side-step the errors by operators which helped cause the Three Mile Island accident in the US four years ago . |
| 2 | Dennett admitted causing a breach of the peace . |
| 3 | In court 23 year old Colin Longmuir admitted causing a breach of the peace at the couples home , and was jailed for three months . |
| 4 | She admitted causing the dog unnecessary suffering and was fined £1,000 and ordered to pay £508.72 costs . |
| 5 | Jack McGarva , defending , said his client was not responsible for all the graffiti but admitted causing the damage on a large number of occasions . |
| 6 | Jones , of Kremlin Drive , Tuebrook , admitted causing an explosion likely to endanger life . |
| 7 | Cameras in the Lords seemed to cause no great problems : perhaps some of their major debates were better attended and persistent viewers became aware of the varied quality of the contributions to debates . |
| 8 | They 'd caused no end of problems for the nomes . |
| 9 | And that arrogant devil Christie Goldsborough who 'd caused the trouble , so far as Frizingley was concerned at any rate , by egging Ben on to cut the wages at Braithwaite 's mill . |
| 10 | Right at the end they began attacking frantically and threatened to cause an upset , because our defence appeared to have been caught off guard . |
| 11 | What he discovered caused the jottings by John 's father to fall into place , separating fact from speculation , and what follows is based mainly on collating those two sources . |
| 12 | The Government would do nothing about it , because it feared causing a nationalist reaction , he said , urging the sealing of the border and claiming that the explosives involved came from the Republic . |
| 13 | That Saints managed to cause an upset with nothing more than direct running and honest endeavour , bodes well for Great Britain , though the Kiwis can not be expected to enter the Test arena in such a generous mood . |
| 14 | We had one of those leagues at uni last year and it was immensely popular to the extent that they banned it because the memory banks of the system were chock a block with it and it kept causing the system to crash . |
| 15 | One version of what then ensued caused an uproar in France when it was published , a few months later , in Le Matin — through the evident complicity of a coterie of officers ardently desiring to install de Castelnau on Joffre 's throne . |
| 16 | That did cause a bit of friction , because the bosses used to try and find out who it was . |
| 17 | She dwelt on this potential disaster so often , and with such emotion , that eventually a freak electrical fault did cause a fire . |
| 18 | It did cause a lot of amusement . ’ |
| 19 | Quite unfairly , it was the few who did cause a hiccup in the smooth turnover of the lettings that I remember best . |
| 20 | Er , nobody looked at the time which , which did cause a problem . |
| 21 | And this in fact oddly enough , did cause a few upsets . |
| 22 | did cause the vehicle ( or part of the vehicle ) |
| 23 | ‘ did cause the vehicle ( or part of the vehicle ) ’ Means the vehicle or any part of the vehicle being driven by the offending driver . |
| 24 | ‘ did cause the vehicle ( or part of the vehicle ) ’ This point can be proved by the observations of prosecution witness . |
| 25 | And it was a great tragedy cos er it did i i it did cause the general strike and er we had a week of the general strike . |
| 26 | The Friday the 13th horror was relived when builder Shaun Gooch , 24 , and labourer Anthony Gallagher , 22 , denied causing the deaths by reckless driving . |
| 27 | His driving licence , also Canadian , had caused no problems in the renting of a compact car on long-term lease . |
| 28 | The Crown admitted that the judge 's direction as to the effect of good character was flawed in the manner contended for by the defendant but , adopting the view of the Court of Appeal , while admitting the error , contended that it had caused no injustice . |
| 29 | And as far as Greg could judge there were a great many writers who had found a place in the book who were quite as obscure or more so — poets whose flame had died with the end of the war , one-off playwrights whose experimental verse dramas had caused no more than a ripple of interest even in their own time . |
| 30 | The commentator even remarked on the fact that the two loose horses leading the field had caused no hindrance . |