Example sentences of "do cause [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Vikings certainly did cause extensive damage to property in the short term .
2 ‘ As the Sun now recognises , the publication did cause personal offence to the Queen but it also caused offence amongst those who prefer to hear or see Her Majesty 's Christmas Message for the first time on Christmas Day . ’
3 The age of the BGBW tyros , who included Chris Hutt , Iain Dobson and R. ‘ Stumper ’ Protz , did cause some concern .
4 In this it had little success , though it did cause some alarm to the authorities and to shipowners , some of whom recognised that accumulated benefits could be an effective way of retaining membership .
5 Ascot 's Cesarewitch trial did n't provide many clues for Newmarket , but it did cause top jockeys Pat Eddery and Michael Roberts some anxious moments .
6 did cause wasteful employment of the police
7 did cause wasteful employment of the police ’ This point means that the offender actually caused police time to be wasted in one of the three ways listed at point 4 , i.e. falsely reporting a possible offence , danger to a person(s) or property or that the reporter had material information .
8 did cause wasteful employment of the police ’ .
9 Our opponents say we do cause such disturbance but I suspect that is only that is only because they see all canoeists as a noisy bunch of exuberant youngsters .
10 Health Authority do cause such measures ( including , if so required to prolong his life , artificial ventilation ) to be applied to [ J. ] for so long as they are capable of prolonging his life .
11 The guys know that if they come in here , if they do cause any problem they get banned from here and they get banned from every other pub in the town .
12 This was brought home to me recently when the Conservation Officer of the Cumbria Wildlife Trust countered my defence of canoeing and canoeists by accepting that two or three canoeists are no problem in a sensitive area , whereas a large group does cause unacceptable disturbance to wildlife .
13 However , it does cause similar abnormalities in monkeys and there is evidence that it may cause blood vessels in the limbs to leak , which leads to severe damage of the surrounding cells .
14 Excess sugar really does cause many problems for lots of people .
15 Later research was to show that whilst it would be most irresponsible to move children unnecessarily from one family to another because separation does cause psychological trauma and harm to the child , nevertheless given optimum conditions children can re-attach themselves and overcome the trauma of early separations ( Kadushin , 1970 ; Clarke and Clarke , 1976 ; Tizzard , 1977 ; Triseliotis and Russell , 1984 ) .
16 You may find that just a subtle difference but I think that in terms of the way erm make allocation in our local plan , that it does cause some confusion .
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