Example sentences of "cause [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make is classified as a " direct control causation verb " , have as a " mediated control causation verb " and cause as a " noncontrol causation verb " . |
| 2 | It is centenary year for the New Zealand Rugby Football Union , good enough cause for a three-match series in a week against the Rest of the World . |
| 3 | That 's a big chunk of the population and I worried about the hardship that I was causing as a result of what was really a commercial decision . ’ |
| 4 | But the chances are , too , that if at the beginning you saw yourself as writing a crime novel and no more , then you will have spoilt the novel you eventually turned out to have produced , as well as causing in a good many of your readers a subtle feeling of disappointment . |
| 5 | Furthermore , since up to three causes are allowed for in the record , the doctor may indicate , say , pneumonia as ‘ primary ’ ( i.e. immediate ) cause before a more basic diagnosis of lung cancer . |
| 6 | If , as is postulated here , usage is determined by the meaning to be expressed , the answer must be that there are two different ways of conceiving causation in English , make representing it in a way that calls for the bare infinitive , cause in a way requiring the representation of abstract movement in time signified by to . |
| 7 | Cause on a Friday night all week she 's in and Thursday night Friday night Saturday and Sunday it 's all like rehearsals for the Sound of Music . |
| 8 | Clause 11(b) is so far-ranging that an alert professional insurance adviser would probably need some explanation of the likely liability of the haulier ‘ howsoever or whensoever caused as a result of or arising out of the supply to the client by the company of drivers ’ . |
| 9 | The infant had defects that were alleged to have been caused as a result of injuries , when in the womb , sustained when an accident occurred to her mother as a consequence of the negligence of a railway company . |
| 10 | The result has been a policy see-saw , with governments alternating between periods of centralisation , the better to gain control , followed by a decentralising reaction against the rigidities which are caused as a consequence . |
| 11 | Cochrane ( 1971 ) for example , argued that medicine has a poor record of evaluative research : fashion , whim and personal preference often dictate the choice of a particular procedure , and many common interventions are unvalidated , of proven in- effectiveness or produce iatrogenic illness ( illness caused as a result of medical intervention ) . |
| 12 | The plaintiff must prove that a duty of care was owed to him , that this was broken and that reasonably foreseeable damage was caused as a result . |
| 13 | In recognition of the problems caused as a result of these routes passing through the urban areas of Harrogate and Knaresborough , the County Council has designated both roads as key routes for improvement in both the structure plan and the T P P which is the Transport Policy and Programs document of the County Council . |
| 14 | VOLUNTEERS at an historic fort were yesterday assessing the cost of extensive damage caused during a burglary . |
| 15 | In the event of damage caused during a riot , it is essential that such claims are dealt with immediately as it is possible to obtain a recovery against the local Police authority . |
| 16 | Just as the ‘ Verbivore ’ phenomenon is caused through a flattening or levelling of the modulations of air waves , so the hierarchy of narrative levels is ‘ flattened ’ such that it becomes impossible in any given instance to determine whose account we are reading or whose mind we are supposedly ‘ inside ’ . |
| 17 | Although the epicentres of the earthquakes were in sparsely inhabited desert regions of the state , structural damage was caused throughout a wide area , including the city of Los Angeles . |
| 18 | It is matrix-switched , which SynOptics says avoids the bottlenecks that can be caused with a bus-based approach , since each port on the switch has a dedicated 155Mbps transmission speed , guaranteed by an aggregate internal switching capacity of 5Gbps . |
| 19 | Well that 's been caused with a plant being put down in that now . |
| 20 | ‘ The energy and excitement that music videos have caused in a young audience has to be consumated into musical film . ’ |
| 21 | The doctor said the injury could have been caused in a number of ways and though the soldier was limping he was ‘ surprised that such a minor injury would cause a limp . ’ |
| 22 | Seven people have been hurt and widespread damage caused in a thousand pound bomb explosion at Lurgan in Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | ‘ To … another vehicle ’ means that damage must be caused to a vehicle other than the driver 's motor vehicle . |
| 24 | However , £200 damage was caused to a rear window . |
| 25 | Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger of which he had been warned by the occupier , the warning is not to be treated without more as absolving the occupier from liability , unless in all the circumstances it was enough to enable the visitor to be reasonably safe . |
| 26 | Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done . |
| 27 | If injury is negligently caused to a newly born babe , liability in negligence arises . |
| 28 | In carrying out the balancing exercise Hoffmann J. set out on the one hand the enormous losses caused to a listed public company , the interests of the creditors of B. & C. , the public interest in having the whole matter investigated and the need of the administrators to find out the true financial position of the company and the truth of the representations made concerning it . |
| 29 | The intensity of their feeling was due not just to fear that the landed interest might suffer but to the affront caused to a governing class centred on London and the Home Counties by the notion that those living in the provinces might prefer a degree of local autonomy . |
| 30 | ( c ) Independent contractors Section 2(4) ( b ) states : Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done . |