Example sentences of "[noun pl] cause [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike billiards , however , rather than a clean ‘ hit or miss ’ , the repulsion of the two positively charged nuclei causes a curvature in the ion 's path even if it passes to the side of the atom . |
| 2 | A combination of vulnerable classes or groups living in vulnerable and ecologically marginal areas in many cases causes a failure to create sufficient income for food to feed themselves . |
| 3 | Notice that the presence of the signal e.m.f. in both these cases causes the load line to move parallel to itself with time . |
| 4 | At that time a determined campaign backed by parents and many MPs of all parties caused the proposals to be dropped . |
| 5 | DID the cotton wool on my apple tree twigs cause the fruit to rot ? |
| 6 | Among the pesticides causing the problem are DDT and lindane , long banned in the West . |
| 7 | At one point the driver slammed on the brakes causing the police car behind to run into the back of the vehicle … the car was badly damaged … the two officers inside were taken to hospital for treatment to whiplash injuries . |
| 8 | What had happened during the previous 30 months to cause the right hon. Gentleman to change his apparent convictions of 30 years ? |
| 9 | Her deep interest in the more unusual animals caused a tall , fair-haired man to approach her . |
| 10 | It appears that their marriage had been obsessional , passionate and stormy , their quarrels causing the neighbours to call the police . |
| 11 | In some circumstances both possession illnesses and witchcraft and sorcery accusations afford a protest which falls short of actually severing the relationships causing the cramping pressures . |
| 12 | The MoD denies cash savings caused the move — stressing that the bands charge full Musicians ' Union rates when playing at outside venues and that the money each brings in is placed in a national pot . |
| 13 | His words caused an unexpected shiver to go through her , part excitement , part fear . |
| 14 | A group of yellow bar-winged siskins caused a flurry of excitement ; the first time such a large flock had been sighted at Bolam Lake . |
| 15 | It seems churlish to point out that most such carrots cause a diversion of savings from taxed to untaxed channels , not an increase in the absolute amount . |
| 16 | The levees caused the areas between to be very subject to flooding and consequently peat formation was further favoured . |
| 17 | Best results are obtained with non-porous samples ; surface cavities cause the film to bulge into the void , causing blisters and a risk of tearing the completed peel . |
| 18 | In Berkshire , on the M four , junction eleven to junction twelve , the A thirty three and Theale , it 's roadworks causing a ten mile tailback there in both directions and police ask you to avoid that area . |
| 19 | Taki caused a huge uproar in April when he appeared on America 's Fox TV , owned by Rupert Murdoch . |
| 20 | As I 've mentioned already in the context of metaphors of memory , the phenomenon of ‘ animal electricity ’ and its relation to neural activity had been known for a long time — at least since Galvani 's demonstration in Bologna in the 1790s that electrical pulses caused a frog 's legs to twitch . |
| 21 | First , divergences in the nature of the two subjects cause a great many problems . |
| 22 | Fatigue is another factor that can effect the pods causing the end plates to bend or crack and lose contact . |
| 23 | These intrusions caused the limestone and sandstone rocks above to buckle , crack and fault over the subterranean peaks of granite . |
| 24 | According to Tolstoy in The Minister and the Massacres ( pp 103–9 ) , no sooner had the 20–30,000 Croats assembled at Bleiburg laid down their arms ( they also included many civilians ) than Tito 's partisans opened fire from the surrounding woods causing an immense massacre ( " the slaughter was terrible … the whole field was strewn with bodies … how many people were massacred in the Bleiburg fields on 15 and 16 May is unknown " ) . |
| 25 | Despite the fact that carp , tench and bream , in particular , have ’ grown ’ in recent times causing the old targets for which the average specimen-hunter realistically set his sights to become obsolete , the humble roach at least seems to have retained a quiet dignity making a 2-pounder still the weight most of us want to beat . |
| 26 | At the opening of parliament on Nov. 6 , two of these deputies caused an outcry when they protested against the reference in the oath of allegiance to the unity and indivisibility of the " great Turkish nation " . |
| 27 | Colonscopic surveillance programmes cause a heavy clinical workload as well as a substantial capital outlay — that is , the test is not simple or cheap . |
| 28 | Time efficiency — Does the efficiency of the operations cause a bottleneck in the overall performance of the system ? |
| 29 | British Nuclear Fuels has always denied that its operations cause the sort of dangers alleged by its critics , and affirmed that its discharges and exposure levels are kept within the limits laid down by the regulatory authorities . |
| 30 | But because a given change in performance has less effect on fitness later in life , we expect deleterious mutations to cause a greater drop in fertility and survival probability later in life , assuming the same mutation rate for each age . |