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

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1 This condition normally gives rise to severe swelling , known as oedema , in various parts of the body .
2 Religion also gives answers to questions that science can not account for , such as the beginning of the world .
3 Jordanhill also gives priority to students from sparsely populated areas in its hostel ; offers a Gaelic option in its Primary Diploma course and is associated with the Western Isles Bilingual Project .
4 ‘ The mayor also gives jobs to people from other villages if they 're good football players .
5 As a person 's independence gradually gives way to dependence in one or more areas of daily life , it is generally accepted that the family will increase support and assistance .
6 This hint of physical as well as psychological confrontation with primitivism predictably gives rise to the corresponding image of city apocalypse , presented by Charles , the character with whom as Eliot told Martin Browne he most closely identified .
7 Loathsome as he now is , he becomes still more so as he hypocritically professes to Cornwall his filial embarrassment : ‘ How , my lord , I may be censured , that nature thus gives way to loyalty , something fears me to think of … .
8 This approach to child support also gives priority to a particular type of family relationship — that based on biological parenthood .
9 Volcanism directly gives rise to predominantly constructional landforms , although not all volcanic activity results in the development of volcanoes since some types of eruption create extensive sheets of lava or fragmental material .
10 Formally , we would have the same force if we assumed ( as many textbooks do ) that a magnetic field moving with a velocity in gives rise to a force
11 A word describing a " concrete " object also gives rise to a " pictorial " trace but an " abstract " word establishes only a verbal trace .
12 And somehow , having made contact with the deepest part of herself , the woman often gives permission to that womb to flower .
13 Pickups fitted with metal covers quite often benefit by their removal , as the air gap between the cover and the coils often gives rise to microphonic feedback .
14 These changes may last many hours , and thermal stimulation especially gives rise to a particularly complex and longlasting expression of the gene .
15 On the other hand , such an approach generally gives rise to very voluminous output neither easy to absorb from the screen of a VDU nor conducive to constructive contemplation when transferred to the continuous stationery produced by line printers .
16 Gentle , rolling countryside of wooded glens and tumbledown cottages gradually gives way to a dramatic landscape of magnificent mountains towering above luminous lochs .
17 As well as buying the necessary trees , shrubs , paving , fencing and seating required , Kate also gives attention to retaining the character of each site by ensuring that any existing trees or features of natural beauty
18 Success typically gives access to one existing service , such as domiciliary care , and rejects another , such as residential care .
19 Chemical weathering frequently gives rise to minerals which are less dense than their precursors .
20 The Ochoa family , whose patriarch freely gives interviews to the press on his family farm , seem to have been forgotten , as do the Rodriguez Orejuela brothers and Jose Santacruz , who lead the Cali cartel .
21 The obvious artificiality of this device is jarring , and the half-hearted attempt to ‘ subjectify ’ a large chunk of sociological analysis soon gives way to more overt narratorial commentary in the same vein .
22 So in effect , the female greenfly gives birth to her children and her grandchildren simultaneously and the offspring of a single pregnant female can , within a few hours , smother a rose bush .
23 Classical foundationalism thus gives expression to the central tenet of empiricism , the view that all our knowledge is derived from our experience .
24 One can say ( he held ) that it is absolutely true that a certain characteristic always gives rise to the property of prima facie obligatoriness .
25 The citation order now gives precedence to processes , such as circulation control and cataloguing , rather than to types of libraries .
26 The system simply gives preference to common grammatical combinations over unusual ones .
27 Each order for goods or services then gives rise to a separate contract , subject to the agreed terms .
28 If time also gives advantages to the initial winners of a contract , arrangements for the final settlement of terms must not only be flexible , but also able to deal with opportunistic behaviour at the final settlement date .
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