Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] given [noun sg] to " 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 | School-based choices about curriculum and curricular goals have given way to external requirements and to a greater measure of centralized uniformity . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Econometric studies of this type have given support to those in favour of limiting overall rates of tax . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | The courtship , territory-defending days have given way to busy days of food-seeking and brood-raising . |
| 9 | These usages have given rise to philosophical views as to the nature , strictly speaking , of causes and effects . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The spangly suits and red specs have given way to designer-jacketed ease . |
| 12 | IN Washington 's superb bookshops , which stay open all night and serve coffee and bagels , tomes on the Cold War have given way to a new theme : the prospect of a trade war between the three great economic blocs — Japan , the US and the European Community . |
| 13 | Miss Marple and dear old Sherlock have given way to something more insistently cerebral — it 's a world where letting the brain do all the legwork makes far more sense . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Such comments have given rise to much discussion about the ‘ climate of research ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In particular , the traditional , if untheorized , distinction between serious literature and ‘ rubbish ’ has broken down ; as Franco Fortini said , the occasional slummings of the aristocratic writer of the past have given way to a situation in which we all live off the ‘ guano ’ which our society produces day by day ( Cadioli and Peresson 1984 : 85 ) . |
| 21 | As most average families are in the bottom 60 per cent. , does not that show that the Government have given money to the rich at the expense of ordinary families ? |
| 22 | Above all , the theorists would seek to show the social psychological dynamics by which the unique features of advanced capitalist society have given rise to the particularities of modern consciousness , or social representations . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 : |
| 25 | Various subsequent duplications have given rise to the so-called alpha , beta , gamma , delta , epsilon and zeta globins . |
| 26 | With Dominique Bozo in overall charge of the Centre Pompidou and Germain Viatte now heading the Musée National d'Art Moderne ( MNAM ) and the Centre de Création Industrielle ( CCI ) , expressions of concern at the lack of space have given way to wide-ranging debate on the future role of the entire Beaubourg cultural complex . |
| 27 | Over the years , mining accidents have given rise to legislation . |
| 28 | Ian Branfoot 's head is being screamed for by Southampton 's fans and Neil Warnock 's heady times at Notts County have given way to days of whine and losses . |
| 29 | Patrick Faigenbaum , exhibiting at the Crousel-Robelin-Bama until 30 May , has changed his subject matter , but with no loss of intensity : his portraits of Italian aristocrats have given way to photographs of the Wailing Wall , taken during a recent visit to Jerusalem . |
| 30 | He is scathing in his attacks on those French politicians , journalists and writers who " have collaborated in word and deed with the policies of Hitler " , and who " at critical moments have given support to the guiding principles of these policies : antisemitism , anti-communism , anti-democracy , hegemonic mission of the Reich in Europe , national-socialist " pacifism " . |