Example sentences of "cause [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience of watching my late husband 's 16-year fight against the degenerative effects of Parkinson 's disease ( one of those conditions which might one day benefit from embryo research ) causes me to write this letter in the hope that all who take part in the debates will recognise and confound these tactics of the anti-abortion pressure groups , quite rightly described by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service as ‘ an attempt to hijack government legislation ’ . |
| 2 | BORINGLY familiar it may be as a measure the rise in the price of cigarettes in the latest budget gives me open , honest pleasure , though its smallness causes me disappointment . |
| 3 | The sight of a photograph of a cancerous lung causes me to shrink with disgust from the very thought of smoking ; a few hours later the physical craving revives , obliterates the memory , and causes me to smoke again . |
| 4 | The sight of a photograph of a cancerous lung causes me to shrink with disgust from the very thought of smoking ; a few hours later the physical craving revives , obliterates the memory , and causes me to smoke again . |
| 5 | That she has so kindly obliged me this evening , and on Twelfth Night of all nights causes me no small surprise . ’ |
| 6 | I desire only to know that all is well ; that it is but my own foolishness , aided by my being here at so unholy an hour , which causes me such anguish … |
| 7 | At the end of this necessarily lengthy examination of the decided cases I have found nothing which causes me to depart from the view I expressed before embarking on that examination as to the appropriate procedure to be followed under section 7(3) and section 8(2) considered simply on the basis of the statutory language . |
| 8 | And this causes me difficulties in that I have to either imagine what it was or come back again to see whatever the er item in question is . |
| 9 | If my servant , acting bona fide within the scope of his authority , procures or causes me to break a contract which I have made with you , you can not sue the servant for interference with the contract ; for he is my alter ego here , and I can not be sued for inducing myself to break a contract , although I may be liable for breaking the contract . |
| 10 | Anything that causes me distress … ’ |
| 11 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 12 | The fact that I do not have envelopes causes me physical pain . |
| 13 | ’ Causes me to act selfishly ’ . |
| 14 | What causes me some disquiet , however , is that British Rail 's thoughts seem to be entirely devoted to the passenger opportunities that the link affords . |
| 15 | That disparity causes me great concern . |
| 16 | That causes me deep disappointment . |
| 17 | What my hon. Friend says causes me some concern , in addition to my hesitation about the merits of regional banding . |
| 18 | At Liverpool the Principal wrote , also at the end of 1967 , that within the new polytechnic ‘ there will be complete autonomy in respect of the academic work of the Faculty of Art and nothing that has been said causes me to have any misgivings on this score . |
| 19 | Yeah and it causes me more washing up which I 've only just finished . |
| 20 | But he clearly places Leonard within this group which , he held , ‘ grasps at a confusion of symbolic images , often a ragbag of classical mythology , in the effort to organise a chaos too large for them to deal with in the light of reason , ’ which in turn causes them to express ‘ a sardonic bitterness in their social criticism , a realism without any utopian idealism to support it . ’ |
| 21 | But the gas also causes them to grow extra arms and legs ( at a rate for the average adult male Vascar of one limb every two months , slightly longer for women and children ) . ’ |
| 22 | They should n't walk on the edges as that is what causes them to widen and the erosion to spread . |
| 23 | But what causes them ? |
| 24 | They accumulate abnormal amounts of sugar which causes them to swell during development . |
| 25 | As we have just seen , sometimes horses can not cope with a situation that causes them great anxiety , and an attack of colic is the result . |
| 26 | It causes them to suffer temporary lapses of memory and to have difficulty in concentrating for a short period of two to three hours . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So what is their mental state , that causes them to behave in this very unfeline-like way ? |
| 29 | ( Dustmen have started sueing householders for any negligence that causes them injury . ) |
| 30 | Take care with the magnets by the way , as allowing them to snap together causes them to break . |