(1) However, there's a general pattern in English of pairs of inchoative and causative meanings for verbs.

(2) The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention have confirmed that the virus is the primary causative agent, but experts say much laboratory work still needs to be done to pinpoint its exact characteristics.

(3) The question for consideration in this section are the circumstances in which such an intervening event will be held to negate the causative effect of the defendant's breach of duty.

(4) Although Eric seems to assume the experiencer sense, I'm going to make the causative sense explicit.

(5) They would prefer to see events in India in 1947 as the real causative factors of the decline of the Empire.

(6) The high intensity of exposure to asbestos fibers is the most plausible causative factor responsible for a higher rate of respiratory diseases that occurred among miners and millers from Thetford-Mines.

(7) In California, many of the leading physicians were outwardly hostile to an over-emphasis on germs as the causative factor in disease, and such theories were even slower to take hold among popular writers.

(8) The article focuses on what proves to be the two most distinctive uses of MAKE, viz. the delexical and causative uses.

(9) It is not simply a case of arguing in Weberian fashion that each of these relations exercise reciprocal and causative influence.

(10) She portrays nurses as patient advocates and defends nurses who have made medication errors, explaining that hospital understanding and nursing shortages can be causative factors.

(11) Milk is a causative factor in most health problems plaguing Americans consuming the Basic American Diet.

(12) An association between smoking and cot death may exist, of course, but it is difficult to separate smoking from other causative factors.

(13) Cigarettes are the main causative factors for lung, oral, oesophageal, stomach, bladder, kidney, pancreas and cervical cancer.

(14) Almost 30 per cent have hypertension as the causative factor.

(15) Human immunodeficiency virus is a causative agent of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome disease.

(16) But, smoking, alcohol and junk food are not the only causative factors, he says.

(17) A causative role for AHA3 in male gametogenesis was proven by complementation with a normal transgenic gene and rescue of the mutant phenotype back to wild type.

(18) Vaccination is an important part of prevention, providing sheep with antibodies against the causative agent.

(19) The general consensus, therefore, was to promote preventive pulmonology which laid stress on motivating the victims to stop smoking which was a major causative factor in almost 90 per cent of the cases.

(20) The prefix tu denotes likeness and when added to nouns it also has causative properties.