Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] rise to " in BNC.

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1 It is in this form that I would express the challenge of the social and medical revolution which has given rise to the modern problem of old age .
2 The academic literature on the Prime Minister has given rise to one of the few serious debates in British political science ; the idea of Prime Ministerial government versus that of Cabinet government .
3 It is a house which has given rise to much aesthetic conjecture , and for a long time it was deemed to be the first seed of the modern movement in England , for it did not appear to be built in any revival style , but in a fresh new one .
4 But it has given rise to two main worries among western diplomats in Bonn .
5 Since the 16th century the ease of hybridising all these naturally occurring forms both in nature and by the gardener has given rise to the delightful range of varieties we now grow .
6 Nor will it do to argue that state socialism is a perversion or corruption of some pure source , for the source has been so consistent in what it has given rise to , and so wrong in its predictions , that the suspicion of some intrinsic connection between theory and practice can not be evaded .
7 Indeed , this sort of campaigning has given rise to a certain newspaper image — that Mr Kinnock is being protected from real people , shepherded into a succession of carefully-staged photo-opportunities designed to look good on television but a million miles away from the real cut and thrust of the hustings .
8 A desire for more effective drugs with fewer side effects , combined with an increasing knowledge of the molecular basis of treatment , has given rise to a clutch of new companies developing ‘ handed ’ molecules .
9 The ‘ spiritual sense ’ view of faith has given rise to a form of spiritual elitism in which the believer welcomes a position in which he or she has no common ground with the unbeliever , and thereby turns the sort of dismissive ‘ religious language is nonsense ’ approach of Ayer into a welcome acceptance of the divide between men and women of reason on the one hand , and those with faith on the other .
10 The emphasis on ‘ learning difficulty ’ has given rise to several problems , identified by the House of Commons Select Committee on Education in 1987 .
11 In some cases , the handicap may be so severe that the fullest possible efforts may not be taken to prolong the life of the afflicted child , and this has given rise to much public concern about medical ethics .
12 This type of sampling has given rise to quite a lot of criticism when used for political poll surveys .
13 The actual methodology employed in the new proposals for the allocation of funding has given rise to some concern ( Mays , 1989 ) .
14 It is the unfinished nature of those parts dealing with the schemas of reproduction that has given rise to a number of controversies regarding the interpretation of them .
15 The police and the Army were caught up in a public order crisis which continues to plague us and which has given rise to the most damaging terrorist campaign .
16 This situation has accelerated the user experience of expert systems , and has given rise to the increasingly sophisticated applications in which expert systems can have combinations of simulation facilities , database links , graphic interfaces and speech recognition facilities .
17 The question therefore arises as to whose rules should govern the conduct of the branch 's business and this has given rise to much debate .
18 Once again , the question of the role of employees in the proposed corporate structure has given rise to some disagreement in the Council .
19 Ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin produced in France has given rise to such problems in the past , and complaints to the Commission have led to charges being imposed on several occasions , in order to protect alcohol producers in the other member states from unfair competition .
20 Planting the Penny Hedge , in Whitby 's Upper H arbour at 9am , is a short unspectacular event but its long history has given rise to strong feelings and much supposition .
21 The question of who Bartle was has given rise to a number of theories and , as with most traditions , fact and fiction , legend and folklore have become inextricably intertwined .
22 The consistent failure to implement findings has given rise to cynicism regarding research .
23 The rise in homelessness has given rise to a vast increase in the amount of bed and breakfast accommodation used , particularly in the London area .
24 This has given rise to speculation about the origins of such territorial units and the rationale behind the siting of cemeteries .
25 This has given rise to a series of , occasionally bizarre , arguments to account for the pattern .
26 Position not being a quality , and sensations not being in parts of the body as pins , wounds and broken bones are in parts of the body , it would seem that the only way in which a part of the body can enter into one 's experience of a pain is as the apparent place of the prick , scratch , cut , or whatever it may be , which has given rise to the sensation .
27 This question has given rise to a whole spectrum of views , whose exponents are united by two traits : their desire to explain why an industrial revolution occurred in Britain and not in other comparable nations , and their adherence to the Millean method of difference .
28 The bi-centenary of the death of John Howard in 1990 has given rise to a number of commemorative events in varying parts of the world , of which this book is one .
29 The possibility that transferring to human insulin adversely affects the incidence and presentation of hypoglycaemia has been extensively aired in the lay press and has given rise to much public concern .
30 In 1972 , 41% of women over 16 were daily cigarette smokers ( a figure that had been fairly constant since the 1950s ) whilst in 1986 that figure was 31% , compared with 52% and 35% for men [ 1 ] : this has given rise to the assumption that women find it more difficult to give up smoking than men .
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