Example sentences of "may [adv] cause " in BNC.
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| 1 | Care must be taken when using these servos to avoid stalling them against the end-stops as large currents will be drawn by the servo amplifier that may eventually cause permanent damage . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Viruses are carried in the seawater from sewage outfalls , and while some may only cause minor stomach upsets , others , including coxsachie and echo viruses , could lead to hepatitis , meningitis and quasi-paralytic disorders . |
| 4 | The Regulations for manual records make the position much easier to administer for the school though they may perhaps cause more family friction . |
| 5 | The accumulation of a nuclear factor having a negative effect onto transcription , rather than loss of an activator , may thus cause the lack of gene expression observed in RJ2.2.5 . |
| 6 | Be careful not to apply too much cyclic , however , since this may still cause the model to tip over . |
| 7 | Similarly , epidemic disease which have caused such devastation in the past , are no longer a widespread problem , although may still cause localised concern . |
| 8 | Unfortunately it may conceivably cause liver disease if taken over a long period , and this is to be tested by administering it to pigs . |
| 9 | Residues in meat may also cause allergic reactions in sensitive people . |
| 10 | Cracks look unsightly , and may also cause instability . |
| 11 | If they find their way into food operations and are used to remove dirt from aluminium surfaces they will not only be ineffective but may also cause considerable damage to the finish . |
| 12 | Viral infections may also cause a change or increase in vaginal discharge . |
| 13 | The distinction is quite important , for there are certain truly ‘ vaginal ’ infections in which the actual surface of the vagina is involved in the infective process and there are infections of the cervix and uterus which may also cause a discharge that appears ‘ vaginal ’ but is , in fact , cervical or uterine in origin . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Bright reflections off the surface of water or glass may also cause your autofocus to select the wrong setting — it 's another time when manual focus may be best . |
| 16 | Biased estimates of variation in reproductive success may also cause the effects of particular phenotypic traits on reproductive success to be overestimated . |
| 17 | The proposal may also cause difficulties in the following areas : |
| 18 | Codeine phosphates , which can be administered to spontaneously breathing infants , may also cause respiratory depression , although it is a much safer choice in this group of infants : Purcell-Jones et al ( 1987 ) found that only two out of 28 babies receiving codeine were affected in this way . |
| 19 | This effectively reduces the file packing , and may also cause fixed lengths to become variable in length . |
| 20 | However , if the assumptions underlying the derivation of the no-arbitrage condition are not met , other factors may also cause changes in the basis . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Compulsive enforced vomiting may also cause acute disturbance of body fluid balance which may require treatment in a hospital or specialist addiction unit — The regurgitated acid from the stomach erodes the enamel of teeth and results in severe dental problems . |
| 23 | Other features like glottal stops , devoicing , slowing down and speeding up before or after pause , etc. , may also cause pronunciation difficulties and require practice . |
| 24 | Overloading may also cause mesh distortion , a factor which is most evident on coarse screens . |
| 25 | Intense , narrowly-focussed beams may also cause local heating to the point of incandescence , particularly with micas , which flare and collapse . |
| 26 | The dichotic nature of the tasks when performed with shadowing may also cause slight reductions in both visual fields for both tasks . |
| 27 | Heavy alcohol consumption may also cause gastric metaplasia in humans and a similar phenomenon may occur in Crohn 's disease anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract . |
| 28 | The very toxic hypohalide anion catalysed by the enzyme myeloperoxidase may also cause tissue damage . |
| 29 | Particles from diesel exhausts may also cause allergic reactions in their own right . |
| 30 | Depending on the magnitude of infection , it may also cause a loss of production in lactating animals and by contamination of the environment lead to clinical disease in susceptible young stock . |