Example sentences of "can [adv] cause [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These proto-oncogenes can apparently cause cancer when something happens to disrupt their normal activities . |
| 2 | This whiff of hypocrisy can only cause resentment . |
| 3 | These boundaries are also obtained from reference space excursions and can thus cause uncertainty in the spatial relationships which need to be checked at a lower local level . |
| 4 | This can easily cause anorexia and finally the demise of the stressed subject . |
| 5 | Anyone associated with the game of rugby quite right abhors tactics which can easily cause injury . |
| 6 | This , in addition to the continuing oxygen consumption of the fish , bacteria and other pond inhabitants can quickly cause oxygen depletion . |
| 7 | Two recent cases have shown how hotel deposits and reservation fees can still cause VAT difficulties . |
| 8 | Diuretic drugs can also cause thiamine deficiency which can be helped by taking extra vitamin B1 found in brewer 's yeast and wheatgerm . |
| 9 | Medicines mentioned in The Eyes Might Have It section can also cause skin problems . |
| 10 | It can also cause self-crisis in which the mainspring of a person 's belief system is called into doubt and inwardly crumbles without anything strong and important to take its place . |
| 11 | Arguments between children can also cause friction . |
| 12 | But they can also cause havoc to buildings . |
| 13 | They can also cause stress for individuals and their families , said Professor Larry Ramsay . |
| 14 | As noted above , the Potion of Healing and the Amulet of Coal can also cause despair . |
| 15 | Constipation can also cause incontinence and diarrhoea . |
| 16 | It can also cause panic and despair . |
| 17 | Spasticity can also cause pain anywhere in the hemiplegic side : the pain may occur when associated reactions happen , for instance when the patient is asleep , or when he is moving without proper control . |
| 18 | Ordinary friendships and activities outside the marriage can also cause tension if they take no account of marital commitments , as another young woman found out : |
| 19 | The sympathetic system can also cause bowel movement so that the contents of the gut are voided promptly , making the body lighter and therefore faster-moving . |
| 20 | Feet that grow unevenly , or become broken , can also cause strain on a horse 's legs , and can cause permanent damage in young horses . |
| 21 | Potassium deficiency can also cause muscle weakness , but is perhaps more significantly linked with its effect on the mind , and in particular with both depression and mental confusion . |
| 22 | This tendency to treat the local population as an adjunct to the scenery is a problem to which even the rural aficionados among the newcomers can fall prey and by which they can unwittingly cause offence . |
| 23 | Certain standing positions can often cause stress on our bodies without us realizing . |
| 24 | This type of unemployment can undoubtedly cause hardship to the workers involved ; also , it represents a waste of resources and is a drain on the Exchequer . |
| 25 | Alas , this can sometimes cause difficulty with colleagues ! |
| 26 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 27 | It would be easy to conclude from this research that fat can actually cause heart disease but with so many other factors to be taken into consideration it is impossible to make such a simple statement . |