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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 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 .
2 The claims of absolute holism explored in the two preceding chapters are clearly both interesting and provocative , and have given rise to a series of fertile debates within the social sciences .
3 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 .
4 These financial and moral concerns have given rise to a change in policy , which has led to the Child Support Act due to be implemented fully by April 1993 .
5 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 .
6 In particular , the traditional , if untheorized , distinction between serious literature and ‘ rubbish ’ has broken down ; as Franco Fortini said , the occasional slummings of the aristocratic writer of the past have given way to a situation in which we all live off the ‘ guano ’ which our society produces day by day ( Cadioli and Peresson 1984 : 85 ) .
7 Both involve the identification of a previously existing , now largely defunct , set of moral imperatives which have given way to a new order in which control , particularly of sexual conduct , has diminished .
8 The so-called functional areas , such as marketing , production and personnel have given way to a more problem-centred approach , but within this there has been a notable decline in the significance accorded to industrial relations , and still more , to the field of personnel management .
9 In the later work the curving rhythms have given way to a system of verticals and horizontals , broken only by the forty-five degree diagonals of roof-tops and trees .
10 IN Washington 's superb bookshops , which stay open all night and serve coffee and bagels , tomes on the Cold War have given way to a new theme : the prospect of a trade war between the three great economic blocs — Japan , the US and the European Community .
11 OFFICE of Fair Trading analysts have given approval to a proposed £52 million takeover bid for Britain 's largest harbour towage company , which employs 106 people at Felixstowe .
12 We have said goodbye to a person who can not be replaced and the rest of us will have to work the harder and care the more in order to try to fill the gap left by his passing .
13 I want to feel that I have entrusted Hasan to a gentleman .
14 In Robbe-Grillet 's Pour un nouveau roman ( 1963 ) and Nathalie Sarraute 's L'ère du soupçon ( 1965 ) , Michel Butor 's essays and Claude Simon 's conference papers , articles and interviews , all of these writers have had recourse to a modernist canon as part of an impetus of literary self-justification .
15 Further , representatives of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board have had access to a large quantity of files in [ that state ] and copies of certain of them which have been returned to London , and among these files is documentation concerning the affairs of your clients .
16 For the last two years , local residents have had access to a pioneering service run by the area 's Health Help for All Project .
17 Now Otto Gottlieb , Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sao Paulo , and Walter Mors , a Brazilian specialist in the chemistry of natural products , have drawn attention to a possible new approach : chemicals to stop larvae penetrating the skin .
18 However , these improvements have drawn attention to a number of shortcomings which also require attention .
19 Well first of all I suppose one should say that we do n't just use one computer , we , like lots of other libraries , have got access to a large number of computers , and indeed you 'll find these computers being used elsewhere for the same sort of way .
20 Well , first of all I suppose one should say that we do n't just use one computer , we , like lots of other libraries , have got access to a large number of computers , and indeed you 'll find these computers being used elsewhere for the same sort of work .
21 Sellers have to gear prices to a number of key factors , such as :
22 ‘ I have escaped marriage to a poisoner who killed someone dear to me .
23 Other Nigerian Institutes have exercised influence to a slightly lesser degree : Nsukka , Ife , Lagos and Ibadan .
24 Towards the west the peasant society of the wet zone decreases in stability and prosperity until , in the extreme north-west , over-population and its consequence , the minute holding ( minifundium ) , have reduced Galicia to a depressed region .
25 You have brought happiness to a house where it has never really been before .
26 Vandals have brought terror to a public walkway in Loftus .
27 Immigration officials have refused entry to a Russian medical expert who was coming to Britain to help a paralysed teenager .
28 ‘ We have to keep costs to a minimum and one way to do that is to have driver-operated buses on some routes , ’ says Morag Petrie , press officer for London buses .
29 In the past the courts have construed statutory and common law rights to information restrictively and have either required an applicant to show a special reason for wanting the information or have denied access to a person with an ‘ indirect motive ’ such as a councillor helping a constituent in a complaint against the authority .
30 Several members have sent submissions to a national review called ‘ Enjoying the Outdoors ’ , and John Taylor , the secretary , has been monitoring developments in forestry .
  Next page