Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] [verb] rise to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The insults or stresses which cause the imbalances and so give rise to disease can be of two types : |
| 2 | At first it was filled with gases that modern organisms would find highly toxic , such as ammonia and possibly hydrogen cyanide — though these are the gases that probably gave rise to organic life . |
| 3 | They are , as I have emphasized , highly organized political formations , which tend to develop a life of their own , to some extent independent of the social interests that originally gave rise to them and of their changing environment , and may acquire the character ( or at least the appearance ) of permanent elements in the political system . |
| 4 | As such , the ethnic minorities represent a major demographic strength for parts of urban Britain , though at the same time their presence may have hastened the exodus of better-off whites and certainly gives rise to a very difficult set of policy issues ( Chapter 8 ) . |
| 5 | Back beyond the Oligocene there is evidence only of archaeocetes , the rather large ancestral toothed whales that apparently gave rise to both the Odontoceti and Mysticeti . |