Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] rise to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must have been an increase in the number of different kinds of animals and plants since the Precambrian ; for example , the conquering of land alone gave rise to a multitude of new opportunities for the colonizing organisms , resulting in an increase in the total number of species . |
| 2 | There would have been no defence ( just as in Reg. v. Lawrence ) if the charge had been laid under section 15(1) and , as in Reg. v. Lawrence and the present case , it was the Crown 's resort to section 1(1) which alone gave rise to a legal problem . |
| 3 | Despite his wonderfully unattractive and humourless appearance , his exotic origins nonetheless gave rise to an extraordinary rumour . |
| 4 | The book just mentioned also gave rise to a rumour that Richard Baxter was about to conform . |
| 5 | This approach also gave rise to a change in attitudes about the split between the academic and non-academic functions within the Colleges , which encouraged the Principals to make more flexible use of resources . |
| 6 | This report , which culminated in the 1967 Sexual Offences Act , also gave rise to a two-part ‘ Man Alive ’ feature called ‘ Consenting Adults ’ ( BBC ) , which dealt in separate weeks with men and women . |
| 7 | Durkheim said that simple societies were held together by ‘ mechanical solidarity through likeness ’ : people were united by the similarity in the labour and the general social roles they performed , which also gave rise to a homogeneous conscience collective . |
| 8 | The proximity of such natural beauty to a thriving merchant city also gave rise to a native school of Bristol artists initially closely related to the Romantic poets . |
| 9 | This correspondingly gave rise to a hole in the planned running length of the second season and was discussed at Department head level some months later . |
| 10 | What has been called his ‘ exact and scientific attitude to bird-life ’ then gave rise to a series of important books on birds — Bird Display ( 1942 ) and its sequel Bird Display and Behaviour ( 1947 ) , The Wren ( 1955 ) , The Folklore of Birds ( 1958 ) , A Study of Bird Song ( 1963 ) , and The Life and Lore of Birds ( 1975 ) — as well as a number of shorter or more popular works . |
| 11 | ‘ The way I behaved certainly gave rise to a bit of drama , from time to time . |
| 12 | Most of these heteromorphs were derived from ‘ normal ’ ammonoids , but there is one famous example where an uncoiled form actually gave rise to a conventional-looking ammonoid by coiling up again ! |
| 13 | Various thoughts on a particular problem therefore gave rise to a variety of images , which might appear to contradict each other , but which either simply revealed the complexity of the problem or displayed several ways of stating the same answer . |