Example sentences of "which cause [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The devastating disease , which causes memory loss and personality changes , is now recognised as one of the commonest forms of dementia in old age . |
| 2 | Science can not know anything of the kind of necessities with which causes compel effects and does not need to suppose that there are any . |
| 3 | They screen us from 99% of the sun 's harmful ultra-violet radiation — the sort which causes skin cancer . |
| 4 | Fish oil supplements have also been found to help people suffering from psoriasis , arthritis and SLE — a disease which causes skin rashes and joint pains . |
| 5 | Dr Hartwell Schulman of the Institute of Medical Climatologists has shown that just before a storm there is a reduction in atmospheric pressure which causes blood circulation to slow down . |
| 6 | Water alert : About 200,000 people in an area west of Southampton are being advised to continue boiling their drinking water as mains are flushed to clear a parasite which causes stomach upsets . |
| 7 | Cases of shiggelosis — which causes stomach pain and diarrhoea — have increased five-fold , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 8 | Anyone who has ever tried to grow peaches outdoors will be familiar with ‘ Taphrina deformans ’ , the fungus which causes peach leaf curl disease . |
| 9 | It is clear that under the Taxes Act benefits received by persons which cause income tax liabilities to arise are of two different types . |
| 10 | These other aggregating agents which cause shape change before platelet-platelet aggregation release calcium initially from an intracellular structure , probably the dense tubular system , so that there is an elevation in cytoplasmic calcium before plasma membrane calcium is altered ( Gerrard et al , 1981 ) . |
| 11 | It proposes tough penalties for industries which cause water pollution to help reverse the decline . |
| 12 | These are the harmful rays which cause skin cancer . |
| 13 | Since colorectal cancer is distributed predominantly in the distal large bowel and rectum where the CCPR is least , additional factors to those which cause cell proliferation may be important for tumourigenesis . |
| 14 | The government will ensure power stations meet EC requirements for reduced emissions of pollutants which cause acid rain . |
| 15 | It would also reduce sulphur dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions , which cause acid rain , by 42,000 tonnes . |
| 16 | The reform of nurse education which will follow Project 2000 will take care of some of the reasons which cause student wastage . |
| 17 | The present thick Ethernet cabling outside the main building has too many tight-radius bends , which cause packet collision errors . |
| 18 | The narrow margin of this victory in the January 1992 direct elections was attributed to his being held personally responsible for painful economic reforms in 1991 , which caused price rises of up to 500 per cent and raised unemployment from 27,000 to 420,000 , while inflation in January 1992 stood at 30 per cent . |
| 19 | Pathologist Ernest Walton said his death had been brought about by a combination of internal bleeding due to multiple injuries and alcoholic liver disease , which caused liver failure . |
| 20 | " The Sunday Times " proposed to publish an article about the history of the manufacture and marketing of Thalidomide , a pregnancy drug which caused birth deformities . |
| 21 | A faulty isolation valve which caused carbon tetrachloride [ CTC ] to leak into the Weston Canal at runcorn landed C&P before Widnes magistrates . |
| 22 | In fact , the World Bank believes that aid to black Africa ( now running at about £10 billion a year , the same figure as that which caused Community jaws to drop when suggested by Jacques Delors for Eastern Europe ) needs to increase by nearly 50 per cent by the end of the century . |