Example sentences of "cause for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The spines become fully extended and if you confuse a hedgehog with a rabbit and make a hasty grab at it you will have cause for regret . |
| 32 | That it has not proved possible to squeeze our resources further in order to accomplish this is cause for regret , but it is an aim which I am confident that all of my successors will seek to achieve . |
| 33 | Not seeing Jane , however , was no cause for regret ; she had none of the kindly qualities of her husband . |
| 34 | She wrote , ‘ You ca n't imagine how strange it seemed to be journeying thus , without any visible cause for progress other than the magical machine , with its flying white breath and rhythmical , unvarying pace … ‘ |
| 35 | Yet there was cause for anxiety even here . |
| 36 | When we do things by habit we do not have to think about them , so there is no cause for anxiety . |
| 37 | Of course , new technologies bring new problems and one cause for anxiety is the ease of retrieval of data . |
| 38 | The condition of the new ‘ working classes ’ gave more and more cause for anxiety after the turn of the century . |
| 39 | But he halted there , seeing more cause for anxiety than consolation in his path . |
| 40 | Thursday morning 's debate on immigration was ‘ giving cause for anxiety ’ . |
| 41 | The Prime Minister 's health gives cause for anxiety . |
| 42 | For most of us , hopefully , the outlook is better , but that should not be a cause for complacency . |
| 43 | The plight of some 600 detainees acknowledged by the authorities was also giving cause for concern . |
| 44 | When we were first warned , I did n't really pay much attention to what was being said about it — the same problem had flared up at both Jersey House and the hotel I 'd just left but in neither case had there been prolonged cause for concern . |
| 45 | Other Hong Kong businessmen may never have had quite the high-level political contacts of Mr Wu , but they too have cause for concern . |
| 46 | She says the crucial issue is not in how many cases was she right or wrong , but are doctors allowed to raise a cause for concern ? |
| 47 | We do have cause for concern but it is not a problem which can be solved by law enforcement alone . |
| 48 | The second cause for concern is the sheer length of time for which the parties seem to continue . |
| 49 | I was worried about the latter but I can assure you here that there is little cause for concern . |
| 50 | The clutch itself , though typically abrupt , did n't slip at all and gave no cause for concern during the drive . |
| 51 | In the longer term , the rush for EC sheepfarming and forestry subsidies — understandable in an area of poor agricultural land — is giving Mantle serious cause for concern . |
| 52 | No cause for concern , says BNFL. ’ and ‘ A HoseCo official negotiates with third storey inferno family before attempting an expensive rescue operation . ’ |
| 53 | The Agriculture Minister , Mr John Gummer , said : ‘ This is obviously a cause for concern . |
| 54 | Roy McIver , secretary general of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities ( COSLA ) says the level of non-payment is giving ‘ cause for concern , ’ with cash flows less favourable than under the old rating system . |
| 55 | One cause for concern is that blood flowing through artificial organs tends to clot , which can lead to a stroke or to coronary heart disease . |
| 56 | The activities of the far right have been a cause for concern over here for a while now . |
| 57 | But the British professional classes had been examined by the academic team of Lewis and Maude in 1952 , who found cause for concern that taxation had reduced the differentials between the professions to such an extent that they feared their quality might not be maintained . |
| 58 | He was a quiet baby , watchful , with a stillness about him which , if he had not been able to crawl and stand and almost walk , would have been a cause for concern . |
| 59 | For precisely these reasons , there was a well-developed sub-stratum of social and political control at local level in the kingdom at large ; and when people are accustomed to running affairs without any monarch at all , then the advent of a female ruler might well not be a substantial cause for concern . |
| 60 | A further cause for concern was Recommendation 6 , with its proposal to base grant for the coming year to each Responsible Body not only on the standards of its own work but also on the needs of the area it served and on the provision made by others . |