Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And indeed , Tarpy and McIntosh ( 1977 ) , using a procedure likely to be more sensitive ( involving , among other things , a weaker US and prolonged testing ) , were able to demonstrate substantial latent inhibition in rats given exposure to a variety of flavours before conditioning . |
| 2 | He left home at the age of ten and went to London , then to Stamford , where he became apprentice to a draper and educated himself in his spare time . |
| 3 | Expressed in another way , in attributing existence to an entity one is not saying anything about that entity that has not already been said by naming it . |
| 4 | It would not be too extreme to ascribe insanity to a headmaster with no pupils ringing a long-silent bell in an empty school . |
| 5 | Under the scheme , a building society would lend money to a housing association at a low interest rate to buy homes , whose former owners would become tenants of the association . |
| 6 | The bank lent money to a speculator charged with extortion . |
| 7 | The teachers bring skills to a community and encourage the development , expression and sharing of others ' skills throughout that community . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The closing of the launderette had given rise to a case in the County Court , in which Edward and she had been held not to blame , but had been conscious of the contempt of their solicitor , who always seemed to be in a great hurry . |
| 10 | Robbins also related to the upskilling debate — the expansion of education and the high birth rate of the immediate post-war period , for example , had given rise to a shortage of qualified teachers especially in primary schools , and changes in the numbers of white-collar jobs available to women had also given rise to a demand for better qualified and certificated female labour . |
| 11 | Then , reluctantly , she made her way home , a home in which , in some extraordinary way , the advent of one small baby appeared to have given rise to a revolution . |
| 12 | A desire for more effective drugs with fewer side effects , combined with an increasing knowledge of the molecular basis of treatment , has given rise to a clutch of new companies developing ‘ handed ’ molecules . |
| 13 | On the other hand , there are cases in which the existence of an alternative remedy seems not to have given rise to a discretion to refuse a remedy but to have operated as an absolute bar to the award of a judicial remedy . |
| 14 | It is difficult to see how such chaotic initial conditions could have given rise to a universe that is so smooth and regular on a large scale as ours is today . |
| 15 | Thus there must have been initial configurations that would not have given rise to a universe like the one we see today . |
| 16 | The system has found itself in dire need of a new way of legitimating itself , and this need has given rise to a variety of responses . |
| 17 | Prevalence of krill in summer surface waters has given rise to a misconception that krill and other euphausiids constantly dominate the zooplankton . |
| 18 | The nature of the succession and structure of the rocks there had given rise to a controversy , dating from about 1860 , between Murchison and Professor Nicol of Aberdeen . |
| 19 | It is the unfinished nature of those parts dealing with the schemas of reproduction that has given rise to a number of controversies regarding the interpretation of them . |
| 20 | The question of who Bartle was has given rise to a number of theories and , as with most traditions , fact and fiction , legend and folklore have become inextricably intertwined . |
| 21 | The bi-centenary of the death of John Howard in 1990 has given rise to a number of commemorative events in varying parts of the world , of which this book is one . |
| 22 | The civil disturbances had given rise to a number of population movements within the urban area , with the result that many randomly selected households were burnt down , boarded up , or derelict . |
| 23 | The ‘ spiritual sense ’ view of faith has given rise to a form of spiritual elitism in which the believer welcomes a position in which he or she has no common ground with the unbeliever , and thereby turns the sort of dismissive ‘ religious language is nonsense ’ approach of Ayer into a welcome acceptance of the divide between men and women of reason on the one hand , and those with faith on the other . |
| 24 | However , in the absence of such a disclaimer the circumstances would have given rise to a duty of care . |
| 25 | The clash between Kuhn 's views , on the one hand , and those of Lakatos , and also Popper , on the other , has given rise to a debate concerning two contrasting positions associated with the terms ‘ rationalism ’ and ’ relativism ’ respectively . |
| 26 | Kolchinsky 's pedantic approach towards the expense accounts had given rise to a joke amongst the field operatives that it would be better to lose a life than a chit . |
| 27 | This has given rise to a series of , occasionally bizarre , arguments to account for the pattern . |
| 28 | The claims of absolute holism explored in the two preceding chapters are clearly both interesting and provocative , and have given rise to a series of fertile debates within the social sciences . |
| 29 | The research has given rise to a series of more or less operational online catalogues , three fairly lengthy reports and a number of articles and published and unpublished talks . |
| 30 | Robbins also related to the upskilling debate — the expansion of education and the high birth rate of the immediate post-war period , for example , had given rise to a shortage of qualified teachers especially in primary schools , and changes in the numbers of white-collar jobs available to women had also given rise to a demand for better qualified and certificated female labour . |