Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [adv] cause [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And the Protestants ' only hope of redressing the imbalance of power created by the French lay in turning to the English , even though they well knew that protestations of Anglo-Scottish friendship and desire for union in no way wiped out the instinctive hostility between Scots and English which ran so deep that half a century later it would still cause grievous problems for the first king of Britain .
2 Although this will not usually result in equipment and other resources lying totally idle , it will undoubtedly cause neighbouring hospitals , intent on getting their share of the market , to invest in the same expensive technology , which is then underused .
3 In the brain , HIV may be a direct cause of meningitis with headache and fever ; it can also cause progressive impairment of thinking , learning and memory which is known as ‘ AIDS encephalopathy ’ , ‘ AIDS encephalitis ’ or ‘ AIDS dementia ’ .
4 It can also cause cold spots along the bottom of the radiator , without completely blocking the flow .
5 When employees fail to turn up for work today , it can often cause huge management headaches , particularly in labour intensive industries where absence may require reallocation of production line work and potential bottlenecks in the system .
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