The phrase "a single cause for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific reason or factor that leads to a particular outcome or effect.
Example: "Many people believe that there is a single cause for climate change, but the reality is much more complex."
Alternatives: "one reason for" or "a sole factor in".
It is unlikely there was a single cause for Mr. Cobain's suicide.
Since then scientists have failed to find a single cause for it.
Even if there were a single cause for symbols, or close to it, we would soon find a way to turn it on its head.
A decade on, the painful recession and the bailouts have been fused in popular memory into a single cause for smoldering resentment.
If there has to be a single cause for the falling out of the two organisations, it is the £8m funding of the development.
On Tuesday, exactly a week after her resignation, a weary-looking Silva, 50, is unable to pinpoint a single cause for her decision.
The Matlab study, for example, had a relatively small sample size, and VA interpretation was by a panel of physicians required to reach consensus on a single cause of death for each case.
Second, most diarrhea mortality studies used verbal autopsies to determine the cause of death, which may affect our estimates because these methods have variable sensitivity and specificity and it is difficult, if not impossible, to assign a single cause of death for children who died with multiple conditions (32 – 32 ).
Firstly, although ascertainment of vital status may be highly accurate, the potential for misclassification for a single cause of death derived from death certificates is likely to be substantial.
A single cause of death was assigned for each infant.
In this context, the search for a single cause of aging has recently been replaced by the view of aging as an extremely complex, multifactorial process.
