Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] 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 | The organizational ‘ environment ’ has formed part of a managerial perspective on structures of authority which sees variations in management structures and forms of control as reflecting the mainly economic environment of the organization . |
| 3 | Virtually every house on the coast was built from stout oak planks , each timber bearing unmistakable signs of having once formed part of a wooden ship . |
| 4 | So when the Training and Enterprise Councils were given responsibility for a new stream of scheme they said quite rightly I think that they would only support survivable businesses . |
| 5 | A team of researchers at Aberdeen University have received support for a three year study of Scottish soccer fan behaviour . |
| 6 | Family counselling , or family therapy , began in the USA in the 1950s , underwent enormous expansion during the 1960s and is now a well developed technique with a sizeable literature devoted to it . |
| 7 | A Government inspector has given permission for a mixed development including a food superstore on land formerly occupied by Octavius Atykinson at Starbeck , Harrogate , following a public inquiry and local plan inquiry . |
| 8 | The inquiry , expected to last two months , will decide whether the National Grid Company is given permission for a new high-voltage overhead electricity line from the Enron power station at Wilton to Shipton , near York . |
| 9 | The County Council had given permission for a 70 acre toxic waste dump in Ringaskiddy on part of the 1000 acres owned by the IDA — there was that threat over people 's heads . |
| 10 | When parents have implicitly forbidden their otherwise relatively mature children to be fully sexual creatures , there can be enormous value in being given permission by an authoritative therapist to have and enjoy sex . |
| 11 | I have just completed part of an Extra Mural Study course in Art History and Modern Art . |
| 12 | He rejected the goals and policies of the German socialists and regarded communism as an unattainable Utopia . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Scott contends that the growth of investment institutions has given rise to a distinct mode of control , namely ‘ control through a constellation of interests ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This famous voting paradox , noted as early as the eighteenth century by Borda and Condorcet , has given rise to a voluminous literature . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 29 | Saracens , the only obstacle between Bath and the League One championship on April 25 , confirmed themselves as London 's highest placed club with a convincing 27–9 win over a lively London Irish side at Southgate . |
| 30 | CAMPAIGNERS fighting road plans which threaten the remains of a historic railway line have won support from a second sister town in America . |