Example sentences of "[pron] may [adv] cause " in BNC.
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| 1 | Due to the high resistance and small current involved in this circuit , and to preserve battery life , it is now beneficial to clean the copper side of the circuit board with a rag soaked in meths to remove finger grease which may otherwise cause leakage currents to flow . |
| 2 | The builder , however , is committed to pay in accordance with the principles laid down in/CT 80 , which may well cause cash flow problems . |
| 3 | It is important to understand Griffiths ' proposals because some of them formed the basis of new government legislation in 1990 , although other fundamental recommendations were , unfortunately , rejected — something which may well cause difficulties in the future , as we shall see later . |
| 4 | Any minority group is likely to include a substantial number of people who feel the need of … help and reassurance , … and many members of ethnic minorities suffer an additional persistent burden of racial discrimination which may well cause them to wonder what hope they could ever have of a fair hearing from a representative of the culture which treats them in this way … |
| 5 | The writer 's intention to amuse , or the reader 's amusement , are not easy issues to deal with in any summary way , but various forms of surprise and shock which may well cause a laugh or a smile will emerge as essential in distinguishing the fabliau . |
| 6 | The distinction is quite important , for there are certain truly ‘ vaginal ’ infections in which the actual surface of the vagina is involved in the infective process and there are infections of the cervix and uterus which may also cause a discharge that appears ‘ vaginal ’ but is , in fact , cervical or uterine in origin . |
| 7 | Check , though , that she is n't sleeping in an awkward position , which may sometimes cause the problem . |
| 8 | There is a chain of contracts and a breach of one may well cause a chain reaction , i.e. a breach of each of the others see paragraph 9–05 above . |
| 9 | The Regulations for manual records make the position much easier to administer for the school though they may perhaps cause more family friction . |
| 10 | On the other hand , it may also cause governments with weak domestic demand and severe balance of payments problems to reduce demand further and generate even higher unemployment to the detriment of the national economy . |
| 11 | Depending on the magnitude of infection , it may also cause a loss of production in lactating animals and by contamination of the environment lead to clinical disease in susceptible young stock . |
| 12 | Moreover , because it occurs unexpectedly it may well cause a temporary panic . |
| 13 | Unfortunately it may conceivably cause liver disease if taken over a long period , and this is to be tested by administering it to pigs . |
| 14 | He may well cause a bit more trouble yet . |