The phrase "accepted cause" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a reason or justification that is widely recognized or acknowledged.
Example: "The accepted cause of the phenomenon is often debated among scientists."
Alternatives: "recognized reason" or "acknowledged cause".
The Home Rule movement goes back as far as the Union of the Parliaments in 1707 (Crawford insists that the latter had its basis in corruption rather than the generally accepted cause of gaining trade and avoiding famine).
The crucial exception, and now the most widely accepted cause, is aristolochic acid, an environmental toxin from seeds of the aristolochia plant, which has been shown to be present in the kidney and urothelial tissues of patients with BEN.
Likewise, giant aneurysms causing compression or distortion of intracranial structures are an accepted cause of headache [9, 10].
Colloidal semiconductor NPs are also prone to charging which is the generally accepted cause of the blinking phenomenon [41].
This surface modification is the generally accepted cause for the observed alteration of the spectral colors of S-type chondrites (Kerr 2011; Noguchi et al. 2011).
There is indeed a dark-colored, circular outline on this hill where grass does not grow, with no widely accepted cause.
Two generally accepted causes among mortality among comets are disintegrating effect of the gravitational pull of the sun and the large planets, and the so-called Poynting-Robertson effect, which heaven forbid we should go into here.
The company quotes a review of scientific literature on CKD carried out in 2010 by Boston University to claim there is "no evidence whatsoever that current labour practices or chemicals used by ISA now or in the past are generally accepted causes of CKD".
War, he accepted, caused casualties.
With so many competing medical recommendations and at least three commonly accepted causes for plague (God's will, corrupt air, and the planets and their influence), "it is little wonder," notes Wilson Bower, "that city councilmen relied as much on their own judgment as that of doctors" (p. 43).
There are no generally accepted causes for the formation of staghorn calculi in ADPKD.
