Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] caused by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bucknor later showed me a particular mark on the seam though he said the damage had been caused by general play , insisting : ‘ There was no problem , Nothing wrong had happened . |
| 2 | Believing still that the catastrophe had been caused by other people and the actions of other people , believing it as firmly as Kate believed that it had been caused by devils and Quentin that it was part of God 's mystery , Lavinia saw a spark in the gloom . |
| 3 | This situation had been caused by multiple needle use and by giving underweight newborn babies microtransfusions of unscreened blood . |
| 4 | The delay had been caused by one set of papers going temporarily astray in the post . |
| 5 | They were not expected to advance till July , and were certainly not expected in this part of Belgium , so Sharpe suspected that the musketry had been caused by Prussian troops at firing practice , yet a long acquaintance with war 's surprises had spurred Sharpe to investigate the sound . |
| 6 | Mr. Long also said that Mr. Thurgood had helped calm things down when the fight , which had been caused by another customer , broke out . |
| 7 | Four months later it was Legasov who led the Soviet delegation to the Vienna conference on the disaster , and it was the forcefulness of his opening five-hour speech that established the conventional wisdom about Chernobyl : that it had been caused by human error among the operators , that the measures taken to protect the population had been adequate , and that the Soviet Union had nothing to hide . |
| 8 | A spokeswoman for the Department of Marine said that tests carried out last year on the swans ruled out claims that the deaths had been caused by high levels of copper poisoning . |
| 9 | The fatal blasts , Morales said , had been caused by large amounts of petrol from a ruptured PEMEX pipeline and lesser amounts of gas , including the volatile solvent hexane , which had leaked into the sewers . |
| 10 | Calcutta 's police chief , Tushar Talukdar , said forensic scientists would decide whether the explosion , which ripped through the buildings shortly after midnight , had been caused by careless handling of a cache of explosives or by a bomb . |
| 11 | With meticulous footnoting , she now argued that all plots and revolutions against the social order in human history had been caused by secret societies , through the use of black magic , mass hypnotism and telepathy . |