Sentence examples for except to cause from inspiring English sources

Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, I will say, had absolutely no influence on me except to cause hours of incredulous boredom.

It literally has no function except to cause pain.

The few North Korean mortar shells falling occasionally in the vicinity did no damage except to cause the troops of the 24th Infantry and intermingled South Koreans to panic further and increase their speed to the rear.

As shown in Figure 7, greater relative weight loss occurred in trials of GLP-1 agonists against active comparators than with trials against placebo, as all of the non GLP-1 active comparators except sitagliptin tended to cause weight gain.

"I firmly believe there are no real divisions between north and south, except for those invented to cause discord," he told members of the Royal Horticultural Society in 2001, not long before the RHS took over Harlow Carr and gave it national status.

In Brittany, Henry had the support of the local church hierarchy and rarely intervened in clerical matters, except occasionally in order to cause difficulties for his rival Louis of France.

Furthermore, the expression of all, except one, genes known to cause autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis (ARCI) were found to be induced by differentiation.

Nothing to cause the slowdown except the fact that everyone has been veering, gawking, at the scene of a crime.

The money you give will not be tax deductible, since you are giving to a cause except to make me a millionaire.

The half-suggested tale of a former innocent at large in this world is cynical, almost menacing – "All your troubles come from yourself/ Nobody hurts you, they don't care/ Just as long as you show them a really good time" – and deeply sad: "You know I don't talk much, except to myself/ 'Cause I've not much to say, and there's nobody else/ Who's ready and willing and able to know me, I guess".

It didn't seem to do anything except cause a marvelously horrendous backfire explosion noise when fully depressed (which I always automatically used when going through an underpass to startle the bejesus out of the occupants of other cars going through the same underpass).