The phrase "adequate to cause" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing whether something is sufficient or capable of producing a particular effect or outcome.
Example: "The evidence presented was adequate to cause the jury to reconsider their verdict."
Alternatives: "sufficient to lead to" or "enough to result in".
It was found that 0.1 mW/μm2 infrared radiation was adequate to cause pN-scale interaction between a cell pair, which was only 1/1000 of the power density used in a CD-R drive.
Thus an anti-epiphenomenalist stance would require us to prefer the hypothesis that simple sensations cause (relatively) complex neural events over the hypothesis that complex neural events (that are required in any case for the causation of sensations) are adequate to cause the neural events required for the causation of behavior.
A contract interrogator and a contract analyst observing the incident from a neighboring booth reported that, while the intelligence team watched, two guards slammed the man to the floor as many as 25-30 times using force "adequate to cause severe internal injury," (see par. 30-36 of Complaint).
Furthermore, Sullivan et al. [15] suggested that a moderate hippocampal volume loss may not be adequate to cause significant memory impairment on its own.
For water, our results indicate that samples exhibiting 102.8 PCR EID50 equivalents/mL are adequate to cause infection in mallards so water collection could be used to determine the risk of AIV spread from a water body.
To assess whether loss of DG in PC is adequate to cause migration defects, we evaluated the histopathology of PCP2-Cre/DG-null mice.
"As you know, this time frame... will give the warplanes of the regime adequate opportunity to cause huge damage in civilian areas and against our military forces," it said.
To eliminate the possibility of artifact due to sperm adhesion to glass, motility assays were carried out in presence of boiled EP (1.2 mg protein/ml) that contained adequate anti-sticking activity to cause nearly 100% inhibition of sperm adhesion to glass [25].
Perhaps this amount of contrast was insufficient to cause adequate capsular distension in two of our costotransverse joints to provoke a symptomatic response.
This unsophisticated and low-cost method for controlling heads of beds in an intensive care unit allowed its adequate employment, thus seeming to cause an impact in the incidence of VAP when comparing respiratory infection rate and device utilization, despite limitations about the small case series and the short following period.
Measuring only my child's exposures may not be adequate to determine cause and effect.
