Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] given [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creation stories belonging to other ancient peoples have given currency to the view that Genesis contains merely another version , adapted to suit Hebrew beliefs . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Sunderland fans have given chairman Bob Murray the go-ahead to move from Roker Park to a brand-new £60m stadium . |
| 3 | School-based choices about curriculum and curricular goals have given way to external requirements and to a greater measure of centralized uniformity . |
| 4 | More importantly , they fail to take account of the complications that all generalizations about sex and gender roles have given humanity 's constitutional bisexuality . |
| 5 | Dutch and British administrators have given warning that many of Daf 's 12,650 employees in The Netherlands , Britain and Belgium would lose their jobs , even if some operations were saved . |
| 6 | Ever since the Industrial Revolution created a mass urban society , the conditions of the poorest city dwellers have given rise to anxiety among the better off . |
| 7 | These financial and moral concerns have given rise to a change in policy , which has led to the Child Support Act due to be implemented fully by April 1993 . |
| 8 | Planners have given permission to replace the blitzed station at Coagh in Tyrone , insisting they have no knowledge of a 220-name petition opposing the construction . |
| 9 | Subduction zones , where oceanic plates descend under continental ones , and obduction zones , where spreading centres are concealed beneath sedimentary cover , are of considerable interest , not least because ophiolite sequences formed in obduction zones have given rise to economically significant concentrations of metallic minerals . |
| 10 | ‘ The whole world knows that the Merkuts have given Artai his throne , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The courtship , territory-defending days have given way to busy days of food-seeking and brood-raising . |
| 12 | Darlington Help Furniture mainly serves the central area of Darlington , benefitting many people in financial difficulties , but its workers have given advice to help start other groups elsewhere . |
| 13 | These usages have given rise to philosophical views as to the nature , strictly speaking , of causes and effects . |
| 14 | The spangly suits and red specs have given way to designer-jacketed ease . |
| 15 | Though a few interesting buildings have given way to typically undistinguished modern blocks , the architecture of Princes Street was never outstanding and little is likely to be lost , though little gained by the innovations . |
| 16 | ‘ After all , bottle banks have given glass a good green image and we 're all now used to recycled paper . |
| 17 | A number of the regulations have given rise to concern . |
| 18 | Sipping champagne and nibbling canapes , we make a rich and handsome multitude , whose costumes and countenances have given life to l00,000 human fantasies , esoteric texts , carved misericords , cathedral drainpipes , forest shrines , amulets and allegories . |
| 19 | Such observations have given rise to the notion of the ‘ invulnerable child ’ and are now leading to a radical re-appraisal of the results of risk research , with a shift of emphasis towards trying to understand the factors that enable some individuals to survive , or even profit from , their disposition to insanity . |
| 20 | These twin qualities have given plutonium an almost mythic quality , perhaps best captured when the manic American hero of the TV drama ‘ Edge of Darkness ’ cracks two blocks together in an instant miniature explosion . |
| 21 | Since what the police regards as an entirely proper task of ‘ threat assessment ’ means the surveillance of what is entirely legitimate political activity by peace or trade union organizations , it is not surprising that such actions have given rise to concern . |
| 22 | In the later work the curving rhythms have given way to a system of verticals and horizontals , broken only by the forty-five degree diagonals of roof-tops and trees . |
| 23 | Such comments have given rise to much discussion about the ‘ climate of research ’ . |
| 24 | They have provided a wonderful opportunity to get to know dolphins in the wild , and several of the females have given birth over the years they have been frequenting Monkey Mia , thus enabling study of their maternal care and child development . |
| 25 | Over the years , a few huge , widely reported pay-offs have given rise to the impression among more gullible members of the newspaper-reading public that six-figure golden handshakes are the norm for the departing business executive . |
| 26 | These limits have given rise to thorny debate in at least two areas which serve as a reminder that it is not only nonhuman animals which are put at risk : |
| 27 | Hostile critics have given Hartman a hard time . |
| 28 | Various subsequent duplications have given rise to the so-called alpha , beta , gamma , delta , epsilon and zeta globins . |
| 29 | Over the years , mining accidents have given rise to legislation . |
| 30 | Police have given safety advice to a dozen other paper boys and girls at the same newsagent 's in Heaton , Newcastle . |