Example sentences of "give [noun sg] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the pope nevertheless steadfastly refused to give way , Henry intensified his attack on the church ; in the summer of 1530 he issued a charge of praemunire against fifteen clerics , including the four bishops who had supported Catherine , on the grounds that they had aided Wolsey in the exercise of his legatine authority and thereby given support to papal jurisdiction within his realm . |
| 2 | In the late 1970s both Islington and Manchester Councils had given funding to voluntary groups , such as Friend and Switchboard . |
| 3 | Finland had been annexed only recently , and the impoverishment of the Baltic peasantry which resulted from their emancipation under Alexander I could have given rise to extensive social unrest . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | While discussion of a corporate information system is as yet largely speculative , our experience of the Payroll/Personnel database system over the last three years has given rise to various working hypotheses of relevance to management in general and the personnel function in particular . |
| 6 | First , the mother lacked parenting skills which had given rise to emotional harm caused to the children . |
| 7 | Migration processes have also given rise to distinctive age patterns around Britain , though the absolute scale of differences between places is relatively small . |
| 8 | The second of these three articles of agreement had given rise to tripartite action against a rising of west Galician Poles in 1846 . |
| 9 | By the autumn of 1283 the danger of Armagnac submission to the immediate lordship of the French crown appeared to have passed , but the behaviour of Philip III 's officers , especially his seneschal of Toulouse , had given rise to great concern among Edward I 's Gascon council at Bordeaux and among his proctors and advocates at Paris . |
| 10 | Such investigations have given rise to wide-ranging reports like those on housing management ( Audit Commission , 1986a ) and community care ( Audit Commission , 1986b ) . |
| 11 | Life assurance business is being serviced satisfactorily , but the huge and largely unpredictable surge in pensions business and the intrinsic complexity of this type of business have given rise to administrative problems both at Standard Life and across the entire industry . |
| 12 | The people of Palau have shown a marked reluctance to alter their nuclear policy to comply with United States ' demands , which in turn has given rise to economic deprivation , intimidation , and violent criminal acts directed against the opponents of the Compact . |
| 13 | Equally the idea that familial sinistrality is found in association with bilateral speech has given rise to conflicting findings . |
| 14 | The distribution of land has become less unequal , while the rapid growth in exports of fruit and forestry products has given rise to new patterns of regional income inequality . |
| 15 | Planting the Penny Hedge , in Whitby 's Upper H arbour at 9am , is a short unspectacular event but its long history has given rise to strong feelings and much supposition . |
| 16 | These have occasionally given rise to strange sea-farers ' tales of ‘ floating islands ’ . |
| 17 | The distinction between the intermediate and the aggravated offence has also given rise to adverse comment . |
| 18 | These usages have given rise to philosophical views as to the nature , strictly speaking , of causes and effects . |
| 19 | These limits have given rise to thorny debate in at least two areas which serve as a reminder that it is not only nonhuman animals which are put at risk : |
| 20 | The remaining techniques have not given rise to general-purpose instruments but have proved useful in particular experiments . |
| 21 | During the 1930s , for example , family allowances were seen by increasing numbers of people as a method of combating the falling birth rate which had given rise to widespread fear of an ever declining population . |
| 22 | The negotiations , which had reached their seventh round and had given rise to considerable optimism , centred on the creation of internationally managed reception centres in Vietnam . |
| 23 | We have given asylum to political refugees over many centuries : the Huguenots , the Jews from eastern Europe and Russia at the turn of the century , continental Europeans during the last war — including my father — and many others . |
| 24 | At no time did England lack a government which could give direction to religious affairs , whether that of Henry VIII , Mary and Elizabeth , or the minority government of Edward VI , presided over by the exceedingly tough Somerset and Northumberland . |
| 25 | BMC national officer Roger Payne explained that the policy at the BMC is to try and give funding to experienced groups of British climbers attempting the sort of peaks which provide a strong technical challenge but are unlikely to get commercial sponsorship , simply because no-one apart from climbers has ever heard of them . |
| 26 | The nature of the underground drainage can give rise to international problems when streams cross under frontiers . |
| 27 | The shortfall in Northern Ireland of no more than four members could hardly give rise to serious objection . |
| 28 | Severe refractive errors can give rise to visual defects of this sort . |
| 29 | It is well known , however , from previous experiments carried out in Russian and other laboratories that instabilities in the current channel can give rise to strong electric fields which accelerated deuterons and can produce neutrons . |
| 30 | However , reserves of $6,700 million ensured that this figure did not give rise to undue concern . |