Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | The courtship , territory-defending days have given way to busy days of food-seeking and brood-raising . |
| 7 | These usages have given rise to philosophical views as to the nature , strictly speaking , of causes and effects . |
| 8 | The spangly suits and red specs have given way to designer-jacketed ease . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Such comments have given rise to much discussion about the ‘ climate of research ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 : |
| 16 | Various subsequent duplications have given rise to the so-called alpha , beta , gamma , delta , epsilon and zeta globins . |
| 17 | Over the years , mining accidents have given rise to legislation . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 " . |
| 20 | As these records have given rise to B per cent of accesses , the percentage of references to synonyms from these records will be |
| 21 | The so-called functional areas , such as marketing , production and personnel have given way to a more problem-centred approach , but within this there has been a notable decline in the significance accorded to industrial relations , and still more , to the field of personnel management . |
| 22 | Similarly , the prevention of further episodes of self-poisoning or self-injury continues to be a problem , and while retrospective investigations have given support to the policy of psychiatric intervention , prospective studies have failed to demonstrate any effect on repetition rates . |
| 23 | Such investigations have given rise to wide-ranging reports like those on housing management ( Audit Commission , 1986a ) and community care ( Audit Commission , 1986b ) . |
| 24 | It would appear that duplications of type III repeats have given rise to the present group of type III repeats . |
| 25 | In the two figures on the right in particular the earlier striations and hatchings have given way to more discreetly and subtly modelled planes delineating the component parts of the trunks and limbs of the figures ; these planes are angled away from each other along clearly defined ridges in some passages , but softly opened up into each other in others . |
| 26 | Performance is up , too , as the early small-capacity diesels have given way to larger engines , often with turbocharged variants . |
| 27 | This exercise in planning research from outside has done little good to patients with cancer , and the politicians have given place to others . |
| 28 | OFFICE of Fair Trading analysts have given approval to a proposed £52 million takeover bid for Britain 's largest harbour towage company , which employs 106 people at Felixstowe . |