Example sentences of "[vb base] given [noun sg] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such investigations have given rise to wide-ranging reports like those on housing management ( Audit Commission , 1986a ) and community care ( Audit Commission , 1986b ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is these positive examples of what is generally taken to be a negative force that have given rise to such concepts as ‘ white ’ ( i.e. good ) witchcraft ; they are part of our European tradition and lend a certain credence to Margaret Murray 's exaggerated presentation of a satanic underground cult of evil co-existing with orthodox Christianity . ’ |
| 4 | These usages have given rise to philosophical views as to the nature , strictly speaking , of causes and effects . |
| 5 | Such comments have given rise to much discussion about the ‘ climate of research ’ . |
| 6 | 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 : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | By the time of anthesis , there is time for four generations and a single insect can by then have given rise to 4000 juveniles : they get trapped between the anthers and the petals as the ! lowers open and , as adults , feed on the pollen . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The speeches are short ( perhaps the school prize-giving metaphor breaks down at this point ) and the polished public school tones of the Synod have given way to nasal northern echoes . |
| 11 | In this process of informalisation ‘ dominant modes of social conduct ’ have been violated by the upwardly mobile groups , and have given way to new codes which allow for a greater variety of behavioural alternatives . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | School-based choices about curriculum and curricular goals have given way to external requirements and to a greater measure of centralized uniformity . |
| 14 | Performance is up , too , as the early small-capacity diesels have given way to larger engines , often with turbocharged variants . |
| 15 | The spangly suits and red specs have given way to designer-jacketed ease . |
| 16 | We have given asylum to political refugees over many centuries : the Huguenots , the Jews from eastern Europe and Russia at the turn of the century , continental Europeans during the last war — including my father — and many others . |
| 17 | Sixteen out of 30 women at a branch in Andover , Hants , have given birth to 17 children in the last three years . |
| 18 | Econometric studies of this type have given support to those in favour of limiting overall rates of tax . |
| 19 | Many Eton masters , such as C. H. K. Martin , the historian who later tutored Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret , and especially George Lyttelton , whose published letters to Rupert Hart-Davis have given pleasure to many , were inspired teachers . |