Example sentences of "that give rise [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Inside , the church 's walls were covered with ex voto offerings : primitive paintings portraying the incidents that gave rise to the various miracles — children falling into mill-races , ox-carts overturning , aeroplanes crashing .
2 It was these conditions that gave rise to the revolutionary movement or Alexander 's reign .
3 Some seven years before the death of King Charles II , Princess Mary of England had married William of the House of Orange , and that gave rise to the English-Dutch alliance in 1678 .
4 It was probably this practice that gave rise to the popular image of witches flying on broomsticks .
5 Over the next few months many places drew up loyal addresses to the Queen , defending the Church and monarchy against those they styled republicans and schismatics , and condemning " the new Revived Doctrine of Resistance and other Republican Tenetts that gave rise to the unnatural Rebellion in 41 " .
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