Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 It is now possible to clone the gene that controls Bt production and experiments have proved successful in introducing the gene into tobacco ( Nicotiana tabacum ) plants which subsequently develop resistance to the pest .
32 A man who led Spurs to the League and Cup double , some thirty or so years ago .
33 It had no requirements for audit , no requirements to submit accounts to the Charity Commissioners and no requirements to issue accounts to the public .
34 ‘ Regular attendance at the chapel of St. John hardly constitutes over-exposure to the public , ’ Joan demurred .
35 The bank lent money to a speculator charged with extortion .
36 In the case of Wachtel v IRC ( 1970 ) 46 TC 543 , the settlor deposited money with a bank interest-free and the bank lent money to the trust at 1 per cent .
37 During the next few months a violent fascist backlash , an orchestrated campaign of civil disorder and terrorism culminating in armed insurrection , led Nizan to the conclusion that very firm Republican counter-measures were necessary .
38 The street offers views to the outside with access to a secluded garden where patients can sit .
39 The teachers bring skills to a community and encourage the development , expression and sharing of others ' skills throughout that community .
40 His wrong-headedness resided in his failure to recognize that the attitudes and expenditures of which he made so much fun were merely symbols of achievement , the kind of achievement which has in fact given rise to every civilization and marked stages in the development of each one .
41 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 .
42 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 .
43 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 .
44 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 .
45 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 .
46 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 .
47 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 .
48 Thus there must have been initial configurations that would not have given rise to a universe like the one we see today .
49 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 .
50 Prevalence of krill in summer surface waters has given rise to a misconception that krill and other euphausiids constantly dominate the zooplankton .
51 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 .
52 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 .
53 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 .
54 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 .
55 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 .
56 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 .
57 However , in the absence of such a disclaimer the circumstances would have given rise to a duty of care .
58 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 .
59 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 .
60 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 .
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