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An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).
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4 In addition, workers should be informed about how workplace agents can cause adverse skin conditions and how to reduce exposure to causative agents.
As observed in Jackendoff (2007: 234), some causative verbs in English give rise to "causative adjectives" that can be used actively in the progressive aspect, denoting a manner calculated to cause annoyance25, as in Harry is being annoying.
Mohamed was criticised for putting out a statement shortly after the weekend's deadly Paris terror attacks that did not strongly condemn the acts of violence but referred to "causative factors" of the attack, including racism, increased security measures and western military intervention in Muslim countries.
For stative predication, the subject role shift is accompanied with a constructional alternation from stative to causative constructions: (29) Stative-Causative alternation .
Our objective was to determine whether haCBG and laCBG levels are altered in infected patients compared with controls, and whether these alterations were particular to causative bacteria.
Allergic responses result from adverse immunologic reaction to causative agents known as allergens that are otherwise innocuous in nature.
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Figure 4 shows sample screenshots for the STAT3 gene, which is known to be causative to hyper-IgE syndrome (HIES).
Evidence shows that continued exposure to the causative agent causes ongoing symptoms.
In 30 patients, fungi were considered to be exclusively causative.
This was suggested to have causative relationship to TCH triggered by singing [18].
This suggests that poor sleep quality due to any causative factor may contribute to increased prevalence and frequency of headaches.
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