Example sentences of "that cause [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the two sides could not agree on what to do to control the emissions of sulphur that cause acidified rain . |
| 2 | After all , a government pursuing anti-inflationary policies that cause wide-scale unemployment can point to a thriving underground economy and claim that its policies are working and that jobless figures do n't count . |
| 3 | ‘ A number of changes have been made to reduce practices that cause irritating stoppages rather than to speed up the game . |
| 4 | Social problems are those aspects of social life that cause private unhappiness or public friction , and are identified by those in power as needing some kind of social policy to deal with them . |
| 5 | Each of these are arthropod vectored microorganisms that cause mammalian diseases . |
| 6 | It may be possible , while accepting the underlying general principle , to argue against its applicability to nuclear weapons : for instance , by saying that a nuclear bomb is not a chemical weapon as such , the poison gas being a mere incidental by-product ; or to go back to the fundamental prohibition of ‘ weapons that cause unnecessary suffering ’ and argue that the suffering caused by a nuclear weapon is not disproportionate to its military effectiveness . |
| 7 | He showed me one , magnifying 520 times , made of yttrium-aluminium-garnet , an artificial gemstone , mounted against a microscope slide , through which I could clearly see the tadpole-shaped trypanosomes that cause sleeping sickness . |
| 8 | Again , the difference between them is in the language used to describe this process : for determinists manipulation is achieved by altering the factors that cause criminal behaviour ; for indeterminists it is achieved by making crime a relatively less attractive choice . |
| 9 | Suppose an automobile manufacturer produces defective cars that cause terrible accidents in which hundreds of people are killed . |
| 10 | SCIENTISTS are to be given £30,000 to study the human blunders that cause major disasters . |
| 11 | This leads to further guilt , producing a network of family duties and expectations that cause considerable unhappiness and distress , but which produce homeostatic mechanisms which ensure that the situation continues . |
| 12 | The overlap between tort and contract should be looked for particularly in problems involving the negligent carriage of passengers by rail , road or sea , and the sale ( or repair ) of goods or houses that turn out not to be of merchantable quality or reasonably fit and that cause physical injury to the buyer ( or owner ) . |
| 13 | It is not other people or outward events that cause harmful stress , but the way we perceive such external factors and our fears of what they will do to us . |
| 14 | Return to any parts that cause residual difficulties and repeat them before moving to the second objective . |
| 15 | However , in these cases too , it is the economic relations which farmers have with other more developed economies that cause these problems . |
| 16 | Paints for people with allergies : Some of the chemicals in paint can bring on allergic reactions in sensitive people , and some paints are made omitting the specific materials that cause these allergies . |
| 17 | Within the effector ( motor ) nervous system are neuronal circuits that cause periodic movements , so that the animal 's basic needs are met . |
| 18 | ALTHOUGH relationships with parents determine in large measure our longer-term preferences , attitudes and values , during adolescence it is often relationships with friends that cause most concern and which pre-occupy the thoughts of young people as they grow up . |
| 19 | We 've answered the questions that cause most confusion . |
| 20 | The details of hot bands may be hard to analyze , but it is the formally forbidden transitions , due to overtones , combinations and differences , that cause most confusion . |
| 21 | The germs that cause bacterial meningitis are very common and live naturally in the back of the nose and throat . |
| 22 | Even if your reaction is mild , it 's worth remembering that repeated exposure to foods that cause allergic reactions may result in the symptoms getting gradually worse . |
| 23 | Attempts to change the land-based activities that cause coastal pollution would have far-reaching economic , political and social consequences . |
| 24 | Despite their many differences , deep ecology , animal welfare , and anti-cruelty have some fundamental similarities , the most important of which is that individuals are morally expendable — expendable for the deep ecologist as long as the good of the biotic community is sustained or promoted , expendable for the animal welfarist as long as the welfare of others is protected or advanced , and expendable for those who accept the anti-cruelty position , as long as worthy ends are not obtained by means that cause excessive suffering . |
| 25 | The tissue contains soluble proteins that cause intense pain and swelling , but which are rarely lethal to man . |