adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
agent
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Mycobacterium paratuberculosis is the causative agent of Johne's disease, a chronic enteritis in ruminants and in other animals.
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Regardless of the causative agent , the tremors and twitches experienced by some users of caffeine are usually harmless.
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The bacteria which cause periodontitis have been proposed as possible causative agents .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Excessive age of the toilets was implicated as a causative factor.
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False perception can arise only if the nervous system has spontaneous activity independently of any causative external object.
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In addition, samples containing granulomatous lesions from patients with acute disease should be most likely to contain a causative pathogen.
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In the next section we will also discuss the loss of a morphological rule that created causative verbs from adjectives.
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Mycobacterium paratuberculosis is the causative agent of Johne's disease, a chronic enteritis in ruminants and in other animals.
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No simple causative relationship between industrialisation and the organisation of sexuality is suggested.
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Regardless of the causative agent, the tremors and twitches experienced by some users of caffeine are usually harmless.
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The causative organism, like that responsible for many cases of non-specific infection, is a member of the chlamydia group.