Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] gave rise to " in BNC.

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1 Despite his wonderfully unattractive and humourless appearance , his exotic origins nonetheless gave rise to an extraordinary rumour .
2 The rapid growth of private charity in these years also gave rise to institutions demonstrating a variety of approaches to the palliation of poverty .
3 The attempt of the Communist Party to implement Comintern decisions naturally gave rise to the most widely publicized of the movements for some kind of co-operation on the Left .
4 This approach also gave rise to a change in attitudes about the split between the academic and non-academic functions within the Colleges , which encouraged the Principals to make more flexible use of resources .
5 The same incident also gave rise to complaints by a number of members of the public in respect of the conduct of several police officers who had attended it .
6 The incident also gave rise to one of the regiment 's nicknames , ‘ The Red Feathers ’ .
7 A. V. Dicey , the prominent nineteenth-century jurist and by no means an extreme anti-feminist , considered that while distinctions of rights founded on sex often gave rise to injustice ‘ they have this in their favour — they rest upon a difference not created by social conventions or by human prejudice and selfishness , or by accidental circumstances … which split society into classes , but by the nature of things ’ .
8 The proximity of such natural beauty to a thriving merchant city also gave rise to a native school of Bristol artists initially closely related to the Romantic poets .
9 The roaring , bellowing growls sometimes gave rise to screams of agony .
10 Most of these heteromorphs were derived from ‘ normal ’ ammonoids , but there is one famous example where an uncoiled form actually gave rise to a conventional-looking ammonoid by coiling up again !
11 There must have been an increase in the number of different kinds of animals and plants since the Precambrian ; for example , the conquering of land alone gave rise to a multitude of new opportunities for the colonizing organisms , resulting in an increase in the total number of species .
12 The same occupation also gave rise to the popularly termed ‘ riveter 's ovaries ’ — another mysterious condition with no founding in medical science .
13 Such a concentration on the economic principle underlying the police occupation inevitably gave rise to backbiting and to justifiable criticisms of those who appeared to have obtained their rewards through subterfuges .
14 This idea immediately gave rise to the question : are shapes that are rotated and reflected the same or different ?
15 Various thoughts on a particular problem therefore gave rise to a variety of images , which might appear to contradict each other , but which either simply revealed the complexity of the problem or displayed several ways of stating the same answer .
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