Example sentences of "cause [pers pn] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , if a medicine is given to a healthy person and it causes them to produce a particular reaction , a set of symptoms , then these symptoms are the healing response that this particular medicine is capable of bringing about . |
| 2 | While visiting the local volcano , Serena is profoundly upset by the sight of hardened lava fields around a bubbling centre , and this causes her to have a nervous breakdown . |
| 3 | ‘ Another thing which caused me to spend a long time on the story was that prostitution is a black and whit story , but the business side of photography usually wants colour . |
| 4 | And exposed unprepared to view a patient whose appearance caused me to warn a hardened policeman ! |
| 5 | It told Lucy she was depressed , causing her to feel a strange sympathy for the other woman , and at last she spoke with gentle understanding . |
| 6 | She stumbled out of the car only to find that Rune had been quicker , waiting for her to emerge , offering her his supporting arm as her ankle momentarily twisted on the cobblestones , causing her to utter a sharp cry of distress . |
| 7 | At the very height of the paroxysm , he made a movement with his knee which caused him to give a great cry which she , lost in the abandon of the moment , construed as passion , but was in fact a loud , animal yelp of pain . |
| 8 | His hair , which he had cut himself in one of the gales of thrift that blew up in him every few weeks , kept getting into his eyes and caused him to see a charming rainbow when he stood under a street lamp to look up at Sam 's room — something he had done too often . |
| 9 | He was the landlord of the Dowlais ironworks , in the 1840s the largest ironworks in the world , and his paltry returns from the Dowlais lease caused him to drive a hard bargain with those seeking the coal of his estate . |
| 10 | For no earthly reason you caused him to believe a monstrous lie . " |
| 11 | One such affront , to the Archduke of Austria , later cost him his freedom and caused him to suffer a long imprisonment from which he was only freed at huge expense — much of which was raised by his neglected kingdom of England . |
| 12 | A WOMAN whose silicone breast implant ruptured and caused her to have a partial mastectomy was awarded £17 million by an American jury yesterday . |
| 13 | As the matter spirals into the black hole , it would make the black hole rotate in the same direction , causing it to develop a magnetic field rather like that of the earth . |
| 14 | A program ( issue 44 ) is a file containing a series of instructions for the computer which cause it to do a particular job ( such as behave like a word processor or a flight simulator ) . |