Example sentences of "have [verb] [noun sg] to [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 A mother who gave up fertility drugs after they failed to bring results has given birth to triplets .
2 The findings of the study , establishing a link between between pollution and chest and lung problems , has given support to communities throughout the country fighting for compensation .
3 Industrial research has reflected this , and the earlier use of antibodies , based on electrochemical detection and a reformatted conventional immunoassay , has given way to antibodies being used as part of optical waveguides ( eg flexible optical fibres , prisms and glass plates ) .
4 Where such culturally based courses have provoked resistance , race awareness training has given way to courses that are less inward looking but which are designed to promote specific practical anti-racist goals .
5 This has given rise to fears that the electoral process in the US has become corrupted , as money increasingly ‘ buys ’ political influence through elaborate election campaigns that concentrate power in hands of a ‘ small monied minority ’ [ Alexander ] .
6 The white-painted Land Rovers had clear UN marking and the attack has given rise to fears that Serb forces have targeted British troops .
7 The increasing domestic and industrial use of a number of stable chlorine-containing compounds has given rise to claims that these compounds may diffuse upwards into the stratosphere where they are dissociated by solar radiation to yield atoms of chlorine which act to destroy ozone through a complex chain of chemical reactions ( Crutzen , 1974 ; Molina and Rowland , 1974 ) .
8 Jowell has drawn attention to examples where the concern of policy is with ‘ standards ’ that are not susceptible to precise factual definition .
9 More broadly , the analysis has drawn attention to relationships between business organisation , the educational system and dominant social and cultural values .
10 The South African environment department has refused permission to fishermen in Struisbaai to catch and barbecue a whale belonging to a species recognised as endangered .
11 In the final part of our series on the plane known as Fat Albert , Erika Barnes looks at how the Hercules has brought help to civilians in times of crisis .
12 And in peacetime , the aircraft has brought aid to areas of famine , and joined in other humanitarian missions — the latest to wartorn Sarajevo .
13 Already throughout their area of influence , rumours of closures has brought distress to residents and despair to carers facing the loss of respite care .
14 For these reasons , ‘ payment by results ’ has remained anathema to teachers and their professional associations .
15 If the defence is used by a drug manufacturer where a new drug has caused damage to users , then provided he can show that laboratory tests showed no defects , he would be justified in marketing the drug while testing is still under way .
16 My hon. Friend the Minister knows only too well that that desire has caused concern to parents in Bexley .
17 Promoting Historic Scotland abroad has taken Bill to conferences and trade missions in South East Asia , Japan , Germany , Canada and the United States in the last year .
18 The communication of bands and set lists in Maths then has to take place to teachers , pupils and parents .
19 Prince Charles has paid tribute to soldiers from the Gloucestershire Regiment who died in a fierce battle forty one years ago .
20 Erm , from what I knew of erm I knew he 'd got access to firearms .
21 Secondly , that transfer must have given rise to rights in the individual who makes it .
22 Well I think any change from one system , a total system like rates , to another total system like the Community Charge er would have given rise to misgivings .
23 I 'd have given birth to twins and discovered what song the Sirens sang , and vaporized and condensed and fallen as snow all over central Calcutta . ’
24 Their rates tend to be lower because they do n't have to pay commission to middlemen .
25 When this is translated into personal terms , it means among other things that at some point in his or her career a teacher will have to look at its pattern and will have to pay attention to changes which ought to be made in his or her work-role .
26 Surely the Lord Chancellor should have issued guidance to justices on the tariff for sentencing in such cases .
27 Meanwhile on April 25 the National Assembly had unanimously approved a plan for the resettlement of 3,000-4,000 marsh Arabs in new settlements on the periphery of the marshlands , where it was said that they would have improved access to services .
28 Mrs Lynn Hooper , aged 25 , of Eastleigh , Hampshire , the British Airways stewardess alleged to have sold champagne to passengers , is to leave BA and accept £9,500 compensation .
29 We 've given money to organisations like the RSPB , Greenpeace , the Woodland Trust and Working Weekends on Organic Farms . ’
30 And Horsley had given money to miners ' families during the 1984–5 strike .
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