Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] give [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 2 | The second largest mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 3 | Salt has received much bad publicity in recent years as a major contributory factor to heart disease , but the initial hysteria has now given way to the theory that salt in quantity will only be to the detriment of those people prone to heart disease from other causes . |
| 4 | This horse has just given birth to a foal . |
| 5 | The second largest horse has just given birth to a foal . |
| 6 | Finniston takes issue , however , with the view that the next generation of managers will find themselves working within a post-industrial society , where manufacturing industry has largely given way to a dependence on the service industries . |
| 7 | However , reserves of $6,700 million ensured that this figure did not give rise to undue concern . |
| 8 | Now jogging does n't give power to the big muscles of the body , it does n't do that so again you 'd you 'd have to be doing something which , that built up the power . |
| 9 | Bills had not been paid , despite the fact that the club had already given money to Brent Walker to pay them . |
| 10 | By the eighteenth century the older and rougher leathers had largely given way to finer products , often polished and patterned in a variety of ways , e.g. calf could be ‘ sprinkled ’ ( speckled by acid in a regular pattern ) , ‘ mottled ’ ( having an irregular all-over pattern , also produced by acid ) or ‘ diced ’ ( having a pattern of diamond squares ) . |
| 11 | A plethora of pressure groups and popular movements grew up to give vent to such feelings , including the British Empire Union and the National Citizens Union . |
| 12 | The Imperial Russian tradition of grand display pieces has painlessly given birth to Grigorovich 's epics — grand , without doubt , but lumpen compared with Balanchine 's irreverent classicism or MacMillan 's exploratory dance-dramas . |
| 13 | I am afraid that by taking the extraordinary measure of stapling this report ‘ because some of the contents are so disturbing ’ , Amnesty has again given credence to the belief that recent torture in Kuwait has been more terrible than in any other part of the world , whereas the repugnant patterns of pain-infliction described are all too familiar from Iran , from Myanmar , Amin 's Uganda , a South America , South Africa etc . |
| 14 | But in the same way that real poverty has always given birth to real revolution , this feigned poverty of the adventurous would breed a false-bottomed , jerry-built revolution in which the adventurers would continue their make-believe and be followed by the rock-concert lumpen , tired of their own voyeurism . ’ |
| 15 | Rivers only roll along to brighten up the landscape , and cattle graze only to give life to his drawings . |
| 16 | The Board of Education has now given effect to the intimation conveyed by Mr. Acland and vaguely announced by him at the Annual meeting . |
| 17 | Joanne has since given birth to Feathers ' daughter . |
| 18 | In addition to the emergency grants to individuals and small teams , the foundation has also given $500,000 to the Komarov Botanical Institute in St Petersburg for the preservation of one of the world 's largest herbaria , Some $80,000 was awarded to a popular science magazine Chemistry and Life and $4,000 was given to a special high school in Moscow that maintains high standards for teaching physics and mathematics . |
| 19 | It was held that the regulations did not give rise to an action for damages . |
| 20 | But Descartes had already given answers to objections such as these . |
| 21 | The initial air of reasonableness and cordiality had quickly given way to a more chameleonlike personality , shifting and dodging behind a variety of masks ; one minute the crafty haberdasher , the next the erudite political activist , the next the polite , smiling business associate . |
| 22 | THE acoustics at the Anglican Cathedral have often given rise to speculation about its suitability for Philharmonic concerts . |
| 23 | In 1982 BBC1 's ‘ Nationwide ’ covered Gay News ' tenth birthday , but in general the sharp end of factual programming has only given space to gay issues when they impinge on heterosexual concerns . |
| 24 | The symmetric stretching mode does not give rise to a dipole change , and hence is inactive in the IR . |
| 25 | Would streptomycin have become available if the example of penicillin had not given impetus to its investigation ? |
| 26 | By the classical period of Greek thought the myth of the Golden Age had partially given way to the opposite idea that man 's early condition was ‘ nasty , brutish and short ’ . |
| 27 | The European Commission had already given ground to the UK in November 1989 , by modifying its insistence that securities businesses should hold capital equivalent to 20 per cent of outstanding exposure , demanding instead a level of 8 per cent . |
| 28 | The earlier deluge had eventually given way to more normal rain , and now finally that too had passed . |
| 29 | OUTSIDE the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children conference hall at Keele last weekend , two young women from Antrim branch were discussing how a woman had recently given birth to a hairy baby with dog 's ears . |
| 30 | The principle that an equitable lease does not give rise to privity of estate has several important exceptions . |