Example sentences of "caused by the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more likely explanation is probably to be found in the diurnal variation of carbon dioxide content caused by the activity of algae . |
| 2 | In May 1920 , there was a gun battle between miners and company guards in Mingo County , caused by the eviction of workers from company houses . |
| 3 | During the 1970s several teams attempted to refute this claim , arguing that the connection is a figment of Arp 's imagination , that it is an optical illusion caused by the overlap of isophotes ( light contours ) from the two objects , or that it is an illusion caused by a star or galaxy which just happens to be located between the two objects . |
| 4 | Particular anger has been caused by the treatment of abstentions as votes in favour of the proposal . |
| 5 | Yet such discrepancies are not caused by the logic of structures but by the messy and often far from inevitable ways in which people come to understand the world around them and their own practices . |
| 6 | This was partly induced or caused by the development of courts at a distance from the curia but directly under the pope . |
| 7 | Where , as is commonly the case , a railway is constructed and worked under statutory powers , and there is no negligence in the construction or use of locomotives , there is no liability for fires caused by the escape of sparks from locomotives ; such was the decision in Vaughan v. Taff Vale Ry . , |
| 8 | The most common are phenylketonuria , which is a deficiency of the enzyme which converts amino-acids , and disorders caused by the inability of enzymes to cope with carbohydrates . |
| 9 | Their puzzlement was not caused by the timing of declarations , the captain 's decision not to bowl the left-arm spinner on a turning pitch , or by the fact that England started to win Test matches . |
| 10 | Effects ( c ) would bring benefits by reducing costs incurred by different technical standards for goods , and by removing the barriers caused by the variety of rules and regulations governing key business and consumer services like financial , legal , accounting , and transport services . |
| 11 | The only exception to this is the discussion of the likely reactive effect caused by the presence of observers ( McCall 1975 ; Policy Studies Institute 1983b : 11–15 ; Reiss 1971 ; Softley 1980 ; Southgate and Ekblom 1986 ; Steer 1980 ) , although no serious doubt is put on the validity of observational data on the police . |
| 12 | ( Nor , incidentally , are ‘ Fenland Blows ’ caused by the absence of hedgerows — another common belief ; conventional hedges are simply not tall enough to be effective , only shelter belts of poplars or other tall trees . ) |
| 13 | If long waves exist and are caused by the bunching of innovations , how can we explain that bunching ? |
| 14 | It is usually caused by the emission of particulates or nitrogen dioxide . |
| 15 | On Sept. 14 it was reported that Pakistan was seeking $500 million from several Western governments to help offset the $1,000 million in additional costs caused by the loss of remittances from Pakistani workers in Kuwait and Iraq and by a rising oil bill . |
| 16 | In Scotland , the problems caused by the distribution of services between the two tiers of local government have been considered by a Committee of Inquiry ( Stodart 1981 ) . |
| 17 | Denys Brunsden , professor of Geography at King 's College London , described the effects on human health caused by the use of pesticides and defoliants on the cotton crops . |
| 18 | It overcomes the problems caused by the exclusion of variables in the star ( * ) commands . |
| 19 | For example , he suggests that cynicism , which starts with philosophical distance and becomes a refusal of all values , is caused by the observation of values being universally reduced to their money equivalence ( 1978 : 225–6 . ) |
| 20 | Her move , she said , was in no way caused by the spate of allegations linking her to the murders of the township activist Stompie Moeketsi and the Soweto physician Dr Abu-Baker Asvat and to other possible charges of kidnap , assault and theft . |
| 21 | These difficulties , it is argued , although in part the result of the marginalization of the arts in British education at national level , are also caused by the failure of arts educators to come to terms with the reasonable expectations of those charged with administering INSET at local level and thereby exploit more effectively the support for the arts of those charged with administering education . |
| 22 | It is suggested that in the context of a monogamous union , adultery was elevated to the status of a sin ( or indeed a crime ) and grounds for divorce so as to reinforce this concept of marriage and , in the absence of birth control , to prevent the social ‘ untidiness ’ caused by the production of children not the product of a couple married to each other , with all the inheritance and support complications which could follow . |
| 23 | An extension of time relieves the contractor of liability for liquidated damages for delays up to the new completion date caused by the occurrence of risks which are outside the contractor 's responsibility . |