Example sentences of "gave [noun] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His record includes robbery and burglary and he once gave £1,000 to a drug dealer for heroin . |
| 2 | In the 1970s , the WCC launched a programme to combat racism and , as part of that initiative , gave money to a number of African liberation movements . |
| 3 | The Report gave rise to a mass of sociological research throughout the 1980s , and in 1987 the Health Education Council published The Health Divide ( Whitehead 1988 ) . |
| 4 | The social repercussions of Emancipation and accelerated economic development gave rise to a range of diverse pressures upon the regime . |
| 5 | This paper gave rise to a discussion , at the end of which a luncheon break was welcomed by all . |
| 6 | Various thoughts on a particular problem therefore gave rise to a variety of images , which might appear to contradict each other , but which either simply revealed the complexity of the problem or displayed several ways of stating the same answer . |
| 7 | This approach also gave rise to a change in attitudes about the split between the academic and non-academic functions within the Colleges , which encouraged the Principals to make more flexible use of resources . |
| 8 | It was held that a one-off purchase , and sale three months later , of land that gave rise to a profit was not trade assessable for Schedule D income tax . |
| 9 | This gave rise to a scheme to incorporate into a federation all the previously British-protected emirates in the Gulf south of Kuwait . |
| 10 | This correspondingly gave rise to a hole in the planned running length of the second season and was discussed at Department head level some months later . |
| 11 | ( For example , our sections on Bottoms ' and Hall 's analyses indicated how economic decline and the collapse of the rehabilitative ideal gave rise to a resurgence of ‘ law and order ideology ’ . ) |
| 12 | ‘ The way I behaved certainly gave rise to a bit of drama , from time to time . |
| 13 | It has been held that a gift to a charity of shares in a close company gave rise to a charge to capital transfer tax where the company had an interest in possession in a trust ( p 106 ) . |
| 14 | A gift to a charity of shares in a close company gave rise to a charge to capital transfer tax where the company had an interest in possession in a trust . |
| 15 | The killings at the television station gave rise to a clamour of international condemnation , including warnings from the United States administration and European Community ( EC ) Foreign Ministers that economic aid might be suspended if the Soviet authorities continued this use of force . |
| 16 | Both international politics and the philosophy of the day gave rise to a number of agrarian reform programmes in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 17 | The action sequences of the new series gave rise to a number of stunts for actor Hugh Laurie . |
| 18 | Indeed , the advent of Protestantism gave rise to a number of new superstitious practices , such as the opening of the Bible at random in an attempt to secure divine guidance in the face of problems or dilemmas , a practice that was widespread even among Puritans . |
| 19 | The importance of the solar cult gave rise to a number of myths concerning Re . |
| 20 | This was a worthwhile exercise which gave rise to a number of alterations . |
| 21 | All four tests were formally acknowledged in accordance with President Mitterrand 's promise of May 1989 ending the French government 's policy of silence on nuclear testing since 1985 , and gave rise to a number of regional protests . |
| 22 | v. Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food the Court of Appeal , while regarding itself as bound by the view that Article 86 gave rise to a claim for damages , held that another directly applicable provision , Article 30 ( dealing with quantitative restrictions on imports ) attracted only the remedy of judicial review . |
| 23 | The Sheriff was of the opinion that the pursuers ' right to damages arose at once upon the default of the defenders , as every breach gave rise to a claim of damages irrespective of whether it was a breach sufficiently material to justify rescission . |
| 24 | Furthermore , although the Commission put forward a proposal for a Council Recommendation on banning smoking in public places based on Article 235 , this gave rise to a Resolution of the Council and of the Ministers for Health of the Member States which , whilst it referred to that proposal in its recitals , claimed to be made ‘ having regard to the Treaty ’ . |
| 25 | One of them , named Lingulella , gave rise to a line of descendants that still live today , virtually unchanged ; they are what are often called living fossils . |
| 26 | In In re A Debtor ( No. 1 of 1987 ) the Court of Appeal refused to follow that approach and held that a statutory demand , which on the face of it contained a number of puzzling and perplexing statements , was nonetheless valid because the debtor knew precisely what he owed and there was no injustice in holding that his failure to pay the debt gave rise to a presumption that he was unable to pay . |
| 27 | The stillness , the cool , the quiet of the building all combined to produce an effect that was overwhelming and gave rise to a feeling of expectation . |
| 28 | There must have been an increase in the number of different kinds of animals and plants since the Precambrian ; for example , the conquering of land alone gave rise to a multitude of new opportunities for the colonizing organisms , resulting in an increase in the total number of species . |
| 29 | The book just mentioned also gave rise to a rumour that Richard Baxter was about to conform . |
| 30 | The problem of the private beds gave rise to a violence of dispute which seemed to me wholly out of proportion to the magnitude of the issue . |