Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] given rise [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is in this form that I would express the challenge of the social and medical revolution which has given rise to the modern problem of old age .
2 It is a house which has given rise to much aesthetic conjecture , and for a long time it was deemed to be the first seed of the modern movement in England , for it did not appear to be built in any revival style , but in a fresh new one .
3 The police and the Army were caught up in a public order crisis which continues to plague us and which has given rise to the most damaging terrorist campaign .
4 Position not being a quality , and sensations not being in parts of the body as pins , wounds and broken bones are in parts of the body , it would seem that the only way in which a part of the body can enter into one 's experience of a pain is as the apparent place of the prick , scratch , cut , or whatever it may be , which has given rise to the sensation .
5 One of the most puzzling features for historians has been the apparent rise in illegitimacy , a European-wide phenomenon , in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century , which has given rise to various interpretations of working-class sexual life .
6 At no time did the defendants tell the plaintiff of Mr. Perot 's proposed purchase of Vertigo and it is this fact which has given rise to the present litigation .
7 The most probable outcome of all class struggles , according to this view , is civil war ; and it is the use of the term ‘ revolution ’ in this context by many Marxists , and by other radical thinkers , which has given rise to the close association in modern thought between the ideas of revolution and armed conflict .
8 There is a growing realisation that science and technology have embodied within them many of the ideological assumptions of the society which has given rise to them .
9 But it has given rise to two main worries among western diplomats in Bonn .
10 Nor will it do to argue that state socialism is a perversion or corruption of some pure source , for the source has been so consistent in what it has given rise to , and so wrong in its predictions , that the suspicion of some intrinsic connection between theory and practice can not be evaded .
11 It has given rise to two different approaches which I shall call the ‘ individual ’ and the ‘ whole curriculum ’ approach .
12 Personally , I do not support that concept , but the fact is that it has given rise to a large number of settlements on the west bank and even in the Gaza strip .
13 Indeed , despite the academic controversy that surrounds the problem of interpreting the applicability and nature of section 5 of the Civil Evidence Act , it has given rise to very little directly relevant case law .
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