Example sentences of "and [vb mod] cause the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So just at the time when that first vital relationship between parent and child is in its most tenuous stages ‘ external tensions and difficulties are most likely to take their toll and may cause the baby to become fractious and the parent to be over-tired and irritable . |
| 2 | Such an auto-immune response against nerve cell myelin sheaths is strongly suspected as the cause of multiple sclerosis , and may cause the demyelination seen in SSPE . |
| 3 | While there is an exact no-arbitrage price for futures on geometric indices , it requires the calculation of y , and this may be difficult and may cause the arbitrage to be risky . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , there are some consequences of early marriages that are common in all countries and may cause the same concern everywhere . |
| 5 | ‘ But it has been responsible for the deaths of at least three good men and may cause the deaths of others , including our own . ’ |
| 6 | The revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989 have secured freedom of speech and may cause the UK to slip further down the league table . |
| 7 | ‘ In the present case the act or omission of the defendant occurred while he was driving a motor car upon a public highway , and it was , we think , then reasonably foreseeable that such act or omission might cause injury to a pregnant woman in the car with which his car collided and might cause the child she was carrying to be born in an injured condition . |
| 8 | These waves would carry away energy and would cause the electrons to spiral into the nucleus , producing the collapse of the atom . |
| 9 | Ice A pack of ice applied to the site of the injury is cooling and will cause the blood to constrict . |
| 10 | Four-ply is too thick and will cause the carriage to jam . |
| 11 | Nylon should be avoided as this material provides little water resistance and can cause the most appalling injuries in the case of fire . |
| 12 | For example , despite the computer revolution , the language of computer users still has to be interpreted to the uninitiated ; and for clients in the health care system , the vocabulary of staff is often unintelligible or , when only snatches are overheard and understood , is open to misinterpretation and can cause the client and family great distress . |
| 13 | But this is unreliable , and can cause the machine to crash . |