sole cause
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsoleandcause
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sole
adjective[before noun]
uk/səʊl/us/soʊl/
being one ...
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cause
noun
uk/kɔːz/us/kɑːz/
the reason why something, especially something ...
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(Definition ofsoleandcausefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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While some degree of pulmonary regurgitation was present in all of the patients, it cannot be invoked as diesolecauseof the changes observed.
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Note that the agent was actually defined as thesolecauseof the process, that is, as its specific agency.
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Also, if inbreeding were thesolecauseof the elevated incidence of colour vision defect, the level of inbreeding would have to be unrealistically high.
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Why, one was left wondering, was there a concentration of defectives in slum conditions if thesolecausewas hereditary?
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However, erosion by resurge cannot be thesolecauseof the formation of the outer crater.
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In spite of all this, if mask contrast-dependent noise were injected into the target mechanism and were thesolecauseof masking, how would that change our analysis?
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Apart from the abnormal ductal morphology, there was no evident cause for the intrauterine thrombosis of the arterial duct, which appeared to be thesolecauseof fatal heart failure.
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Anti-platelet antibodies may not be thesolecauseof the thrombocytopaenia : other factors may be operating, particularly very early after patency when antibody reactivity is not so readily detected.
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Malingering is certainly not thesolecauseof the higher sickness rate.
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Therefore, the spurious accusation that unemployment is thesolecauseof crime in inner-city areas does a great disservice to those who live there.
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That has gone aside and, quite rightly, we now have irretrievable breakdown as thesolecauseof divorce.
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I do not contend that the capital levy is thesolecauseof that, but it is undoubtedly a contributory cause.
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It is, therefore, not quite fair to say that increased cost of production is thesolecauseof increased prices.
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Inflation cannot be held to be thesolecauseof that rate of increase.
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Not surprisingly, the housing research unit survey discovered that thesolecauseof dissatisfaction with the selling procedure is the discount or commission.
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I should go on to say that the scale of production is not thesolecauseof the differences in productivity between the two countries.
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