Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has given rise to speculation about the origins of such territorial units and the rationale behind the siting of cemeteries . |
| 2 | THE acoustics at the Anglican Cathedral have often given rise to speculation about its suitability for Philharmonic concerts . |
| 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 | The consistent failure to implement findings has given rise to cynicism regarding research . |
| 5 | This has added insult to injury of a privatisation carried out against the wishes of the public . |
| 6 | Then , after that humiliation , he had added insult to injury by saying she 'd be perfectly safe with him ! |
| 7 | THE Soviet space station Salyut-7 made its long awaited return to Earth in the early hours ( 0400 GMT ) of Thursday 7 February . |
| 8 | Since last May many of these same passers-by have come face to face on their TV screens with the agony , desolation and despair of the people of Ethiopia and the Sudan . |
| 9 | The memory of the terrible moment she had come face to face with Salt rolled over her . |
| 10 | But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated . |
| 11 | The poor fellow thought he had come face to face with an alien . |
| 12 | I wanted to meet Marius Durance — I 've always especially admired his work and it seemed crazy to be so close and not come face to face with him . |
| 13 | Like Hamlet , they had come face to face with its essential horror and absurdity . |
| 14 | At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather . |
| 15 | A farmer who 's threatened to shoot her cattle rather than allow a bypass through her land , has come face to face with officials who want to build the road . |
| 16 | On his way home , he had come face to face with the two youths with whom he had argued earlier . |
| 17 | With the backing of the BBC , the guarded co-operation of the couple and the collaboration of a fine screenwriter , Andrew Davies , a full-length film drama was prepared and Gerard even secured permission to film in Cape Town . |
| 18 | FoE condemns Britain 's environment record , but says PM has pushed issue to top of world agenda Downing St plays down meeting with Porritt Praise and blame for ‘ green ’ Thatcher . |
| 19 | Morgan , MacDonald and Hilgard ( 1974 ) , for instance , have related hypnosis to mediation by the right hemisphere and Cohen , Rosen and Goldstein ( 1976 ) claimed to show that sexual orgasm in humans is associated with increased amplitude of the wave form over the right but not the left hemisphere . |
| 20 | Like other frontier peoples , the French Basques have not always seen eye to eye with Paris . |
| 21 | We may not have always seen eye to eye in the past but I have great respect for him nevertheless . ’ |
| 22 | Birmingham specialised in close , dark and filthy courtyards : there were over two thousand of these in the town in the 1830s , and many of their houses were built back to back in order to get the maximum number on to each expensive acre . |
| 23 | A walk through the arboretum soon turned thoughts to life as a lumberjill half a century ago . |
| 24 | But that is explained , partly , by the fact that Mike did the negotiations himself and they were often done face to face with Jefferson . |
| 25 | This has produced savings to date of £24m of which £13m related to manpower . |
| 26 | Aylwin had been leader of the Christian Democratic Party in 1973 , when it had joined in calling on the military to intervene , but he now acknowledged that all political forces which had preferred confrontation to dialogue at that time , were responsible for creating the conditions in which human rights violations eventually took place . |
| 27 | Since the late 1970s feminist sociologists have increasingly drawn attention to gender as a dividing principle too . |
| 28 | You have n't slept head to toe in a bed with him though . |
| 29 | UK bank authorises US bank to debit their NOSTRO account with the relevant sum of money and pay American beneficiary who has supplied goods to depositor in London . |
| 30 | The videos have even been sold door to door from delivery vans . |