Sentence:  The conductor 's preoccupation with the business of starting and stopping <WSD>caused</WSD> occasional raggedness , as with the first orchestra entrance in the Fourth Piano Concerto , but when he put his deliberations and obsequies aside and let the music move as designed , it did so with plenty of spring . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally