Example sentences of "cause [pron] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However after one to three years a signal , possibly hormonal , causes them to don the silvery camouflage of sea fish . |
| 2 | If it is to put pressure on broadminded intellectuals to persuade their leaders to change their policies , it is having the opposite effect , and is causing them to support the nationalist government . |
| 3 | I enclose a copy of what caused me to miss the last meeting of the Powys Health Project . |
| 4 | Work out what sort of situations seem to cause you to experience the four different feelings . |
| 5 | venerable old Jew whose noble nature and gratitude to Fledgeby for releasing him from debts owed to Fledgeby 's father cause him to serve the young man devotedly as agent for Pubsey & Co . |
| 6 | If Jones has outlived Smith this can not be explained by showing that he earlier had the higher life expectancy , and then arguing that this duly caused him to live the longer life . |
| 7 | He wondered afterwards whether his unlooked-for success in the examination caused him to read the wrong subject at the university . |
| 8 | he also opened up early at the wicket and had a tendency to bowl from the edge of the crease , which caused him to get the right shoulder in front of the left as he delivered and , with hardly any follow through , the only way he could generate any great speed was by a late acceleration of the bowling arm . |
| 9 | During the impact the right side and top of the instrument panel was twisted upwards and to the left , causing it to strike the left-hand side of the straining bar beneath the canopy to the left of the pilot 's head as well as impacting on the right side of the pilot 's face , resulting in minor injuries . |
| 10 | I hope this helps you to see that it does not matter at all whether that regression to his past life was factual or whether Barry 's subconscious had caused him to invent the whole thing in his imagination . |
| 11 | She thought suddenly that she had taken Dr Neil for granted , that she had not fully realised either his hard work or his dedication , and for the first time understood the impulse which had caused him to leave the cushioned life of a younger son of a good family and become an East End doctor instead . |
| 12 | That did not cause them to escape the sharp edge of Jesus 's tongue . |
| 13 | To do so , however , may cause us to miss the basic underlying reason for the patient 's problem . |
| 14 | This , in turn , will cause us to address the broader issue of whether there is , in a more general sense , a genuine , causal association between insanity and at least some forms of creativity ; and , if that is so , what it can tell us about the underlying qualities of psychosis and of the creative process . |
| 15 | The new does not cause us to discard the old , but to see its contemporary worth . |