Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kalat and Rozin ( 1973 ) suggested that subjects given exposure to a novel flavour are capable of learning that the flavour predicts no aversive consequence , that the taste is ‘ safe ’ . |
| 2 | A proposal by the BAPU parliamentary group to repeal Paragraph 1 , defining Bulgaria as a " People 's Republic " and as " a socialist state of the working people from town and country , headed by a working class " , was rejected on procedural grounds after a heated debate , but it was decided to set up a working group of government and opposition representatives to examine this and other possible constitutional amendments , with a view to submitting proposals to a forthcoming National Assembly session . |
| 3 | They also want the station to expand in order to be able to transmit programmes to a wider area . |
| 4 | He built up popular support for a war which , in its opening phase , had given rise to a political crisis similar to those that had broken over his father and grandfather . |
| 5 | Indeed , this sort of campaigning has given rise to a certain newspaper image — that Mr Kinnock is being protected from real people , shepherded into a succession of carefully-staged photo-opportunities designed to look good on television but a million miles away from the real cut and thrust of the hustings . |
| 6 | ‘ Surely your mother 's absence must have given rise to a great deal of discussion and speculation in the family — at the time , and afterwards . ’ |
| 7 | The question whether financing government expenditure by borrowing rather than taxation imposes a greater burden on future generations has given rise to a great deal of confusion among laymen and , at a more esoteric , if not more useful , level , among economists . |
| 8 | In conclusion , we believe that our study avoided the methodological and analytical problems of previous reports , which have given rise to a great deal of controversy over the efficacy of EFA supplementation in AD . |
| 9 | Commentators noted that the lifting of some restrictions on black political activity in early February had given rise to a sharp increase in the level of township protest . |
| 10 | The rise in homelessness has given rise to a vast increase in the amount of bed and breakfast accommodation used , particularly in the London area . |
| 11 | It is linked to a discussion of whether the form of communism practised in the Soviet Union , Eastern Europe and China has given rise to a new class whose domination rests on control of the means of administration . |
| 12 | Scott contends that the growth of investment institutions has given rise to a distinct mode of control , namely ‘ control through a constellation of interests ’ . |
| 13 | However this debate , and the ensuing documents , have given rise to a legal-formal or contractual accountability model rather than a partnership model for education , according to Lawton . |
| 14 | This question has given rise to a whole spectrum of views , whose exponents are united by two traits : their desire to explain why an industrial revolution occurred in Britain and not in other comparable nations , and their adherence to the Millean method of difference . |
| 15 | In this paper I will attempt to outline some of the factors which have given rise to a social division between ‘ incomers ’ and the native population in Dunrossness during the first phase ( 1971–79 ) of the so-called ‘ oil era ’ in Shetland . |
| 16 | This famous voting paradox , noted as early as the eighteenth century by Borda and Condorcet , has given rise to a voluminous literature . |
| 17 | This problem , associated with attempts to ascribe probabilities to scientific laws and theories in the light of given evidence , has given rise to a detailed technical research programme that has been tenaciously pursued and developed by inductivists over the last few decades . |
| 18 | Personally , I do not support that concept , but the fact is that it has given rise to a large number of settlements on the west bank and even in the Gaza strip . |
| 19 | The socio-economic problems in West Germany as elsewhere have given rise to an inevitable resurgence of hostility towards ethnic and other minorities , and have put some pressure on the political system itself ( reflected in the emergence of the part ecological , part anti-nuclear , part general social protest ‘ Green Party ’ ) . |
| 20 | I could afford the naked women but not the naked scepticism , the carping and sniping and the public washing of dirty linen which represents freedom to an English editor . |
| 21 | PETER SCUDAMORE , who breaks records as easily as a psychotic disc jockey , was at it again yesterday , shattering his own mark for the fastest 50 winners by a National Hunt jockey when he rode In-Keeping to an easy victory at Wincanton . |
| 22 | Thus , a statutory provision allowing recourse to an alternative remedy will not readily be interpreted as requiring the alternative redress to be sought at the expense of an application to a court . |
| 23 | The first of a new family of drugs based on the leech has been developed thanks to a key piece of understanding provided by Huber 's team at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany . |
| 24 | Confusion surrounding chlorine and its derivative products is being eased thanks to a new public information service . |
| 25 | A useful item in the Velcro range is a fastening called Sew 'n' Stick which is suitable for attaching fabric to a hard surface . |
| 26 | On the one hand , as I wrote , I found myself wanting to alert readers to an increasing amount of detailed literature , across a wide range of disciplines , currently being reported ; and to indicate something of the complexity of the issues being pursued . |
| 27 | They then moved west to a new holding area at Bir Zalten , sixty miles south of the German positions at El Agheila , which had been recced by Mike Sadler who had flown up there during the first week in November . |
| 28 | A 73rd-minute goal by substitute Andy Payton helped Middlesbrough to a 2–1 home victory over Oxford United that will have an enormous bearing on the Second Division 's promotion and relegation issues . |
| 29 | Foreign involvement in US carriers , Mr Skinner argued recently , could compromise response to a national emergency . |
| 30 | Zimbabwe Test star Alistair Campbell reached 600 runs for the season with an undefeated century helped Wallasey to a 214-run victory over Sefton . |