Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [noun sg] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such investigations have given rise to wide-ranging reports like those on housing management ( Audit Commission , 1986a ) and community care ( Audit Commission , 1986b ) . |
| 2 | Life assurance business is being serviced satisfactorily , but the huge and largely unpredictable surge in pensions business and the intrinsic complexity of this type of business have given rise to administrative problems both at Standard Life and across the entire industry . |
| 3 | It is these positive examples of what is generally taken to be a negative force that have given rise to such concepts as ‘ white ’ ( i.e. good ) witchcraft ; they are part of our European tradition and lend a certain credence to Margaret Murray 's exaggerated presentation of a satanic underground cult of evil co-existing with orthodox Christianity . ’ |
| 4 | These usages have given rise to philosophical views as to the nature , strictly speaking , of causes and effects . |
| 5 | But when such circumstances do arise , questions with respect to the appropriate procedure to be followed in requiring drivers to provide specimens of blood or urine have given rise to some difficulties in the courts and it is to the resolution of those questions that this appeal is directed . |
| 6 | By the time of anthesis , there is time for four generations and a single insect can by then have given rise to 4000 juveniles : they get trapped between the anthers and the petals as the ! lowers open and , as adults , feed on the pollen . |
| 7 | Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are . |
| 8 | In this process of informalisation ‘ dominant modes of social conduct ’ have been violated by the upwardly mobile groups , and have given way to new codes which allow for a greater variety of behavioural alternatives . |
| 9 | School-based choices about curriculum and curricular goals have given way to external requirements and to a greater measure of centralized uniformity . |
| 10 | Performance is up , too , as the early small-capacity diesels have given way to larger engines , often with turbocharged variants . |
| 11 | We have given asylum to political refugees over many centuries : the Huguenots , the Jews from eastern Europe and Russia at the turn of the century , continental Europeans during the last war — including my father — and many others . |
| 12 | Sixteen out of 30 women at a branch in Andover , Hants , have given birth to 17 children in the last three years . |
| 13 | We have said goodbye to two cleaners from the Cornard site during the last few months — both of whom passed retirement age many moons ago ! |
| 14 | Different coals have undergone coalification to different extents . |
| 15 | But the growing employment of women in the modern sectors of the economy and the declining ability to enforce post-partum abstinence in the conditions or urban life have curtailed adherence to these traditions . |
| 16 | Many reports have drawn attention to high levels of dissatisfaction among junior doctors . |
| 17 | The collapse of its junk-bond market and the fiasco of its thrifts have drawn attention to broader worries about the soundness of its financial system . |
| 18 | They have played host to ten children from Byelorussia , north of Chernobyl , in which 20% of the land ( an area two-thirds the size of Scotland ) has been contaminated . |
| 19 | In addition , many governments have extended legislation to other areas , for example , laws which permit police to use a breathalyser test to detect and detain drivers who have been drinking in excess of the alcohol limit . |