Example sentences of "may [adv] cause [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Pickets handing out leaflets to passers by may thereby cause harassment , alarm or distress , but they should not be held to be guilty of an offence on that account alone .
2 Unfortunately it may conceivably cause liver disease if taken over a long period , and this is to be tested by administering it to pigs .
3 However , if the assumptions underlying the derivation of the no-arbitrage condition are not met , other factors may also cause changes in the basis .
4 The proposal may also cause difficulties in the following areas :
5 ‘ Cyclists in bus lanes may also cause delay to buses , although banning cyclists places them in danger if they are required to ride in the main carriageway , with buses passing on their nearside . ’
6 Feelings of anger and bitterness towards another person , as well as guilt , which have been pushed down and never dealt with , may also cause depression .
7 Cracks look unsightly , and may also cause instability .
8 Other features like glottal stops , devoicing , slowing down and speeding up before or after pause , etc. , may also cause pronunciation difficulties and require practice .
9 Overloading may also cause mesh distortion , a factor which is most evident on coarse screens .
10 The very toxic hypohalide anion catalysed by the enzyme myeloperoxidase may also cause tissue damage .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 The ordination of women and treatment of homosexual clergy — both sensitive issues — may well cause rifts .
14 The builder , however , is committed to pay in accordance with the principles laid down in/CT 80 , which may well cause cash flow problems .
15 Anyone ( whether he is a manufacturer or not ) who ought to appreciate that his acts or omissions may well cause harm to another may be liable to that other for any damage caused by his negligence in carrying on those activities .
16 Affected mediastinal lymph nodes may either cause narrowing of the lumen due to external compression or the oesophageal wall may be invaded directly when tumours spread beyond their anatomical boundaries .
17 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 .
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