Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] rise to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legislative intention was to give rise to a charge whenever there was a change in the proportion of the settled property in which any participator was deemed to be entitled , whether the change had arisen on death , or on termination of the interest , or on a disposition or deemed disposition . |
| 2 | Rather , the argument was that industrialism was giving rise to new , and massive , urban concentrations and these latter were having distinct social effects . |
| 3 | Increasing amounts of low-level ozone pollution are giving rise to an asthma epidemic among babies and young children , according to a senior government health adviser . |
| 4 | All seas towards the moon are giving rise to tides . |
| 5 | The nineteenth-century impact of Europe on the Middle East was giving rise to critics in the Islamic world . |
| 6 | The product of the flowrate and the dilution factor give a numerical value for the odour emission , which whilst not a direct measurement of odour nuisance is shown to be a guide : the higher the emission the more likely the odour is to give rise to complaints and therefore more likely to amount to a nuisance at law . |
| 7 | If sulphur dioxide is giving rise to the principal health threat during a smog , then banning the use of petrol-powered vehicles ( which principally emit hydrocarbons , oxides of nitrogen and carbon monoxide as well as contributing to the formation of ozone ) will make little or no difference to sulphur dioxide levels compared with banning diesel-engine vehicles which do emit some sulphur dioxide . |
| 8 | By a curious twist of fate , the prevailing socio-political conditions of the time were to give rise to a situation in which the French communist writer in the 1930s enjoyed relative freedom to give full artistic expression to the dominant themes of anti-fascism and anti-capitalism within a specifically French cultural context . |
| 9 | Computer technology was giving rise to a variety of innovative developments , and the field was in general pioneered by the CNAA and its institutions before the universities took up the challenge . |