Example sentences of "cause [prep] [adj] [noun sg] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The underlying cause for this decision was the awful damage caused by the savage winter of 1709 . |
| 2 | Before Weismann , most evolutionary theorists , and in particular the Frenchman Jean Baptiste Lamarck ( 1744–1829 ) , had supposed that the main cause of evolutionary change was the ‘ inheritance of acquired characters ’ . |
| 3 | The main cause of spiralling productivity was a phenomenal increase in the quantity and quality of means of production . |
| 4 | He suggested that the main cause of social differentiation was the increase in population density . |
| 5 | The cause of this devastation was the Black Death . |
| 6 | The immediate cause of this switch was a ban on the export of walnut from the Savoie region of France — the principal source of the wood for the English industry — by the French government in 1720 . |