"caused to start" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the cause of a particular action. For example, "The loud noise caused her to start running."
And he is not playing nearly as well as Buffalo's Ryan Miller, writes Darren Eliot on SI.com, who is helping his cause to start for the United States Olympic team by crushing Toronto.
The makers of the film - a for-profit company - say they put the girls in pink princess costumes and got them to use "a bad word for a good cause" to start a conversation about feminism.
That might be enough cause to start another movement.
The only other time the Vatican allowed a sainthood cause to start early?
I always get a little down after finishing an episode 'cause I have to start over from scratch.
"Hamas is guilty because they took over Gaza and threatened Israel, which caused Israel to blockade Gaza, which caused Hamas to start the air war".
The loud sounds caused patrons to start rushing to the exit nearly causing a riot, deputies said.
The missed deadline caused California to start issuing i.o.u.'s to vendors and tax payers.
Why did you want to be an author and what caused you to start writing?
For some reason, this exchange caused them to start laughing, Mike's shoulders heaving.
That's a mystery, like what caused Scrabble to start running wild last summer.
