Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] give [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are good grounds for thinking that to a significant degree home and foreign capital markets were separate and gave rise to quite different levels of investment expectations . |
| 2 | The Thom case was exceptional and gave rise to something of a public outcry . |
| 3 | The Savoyard himself did not appear on the day , apparently because he was unsure whether to give precedence to the representative of the king of Bohemia ( the " Winter King " Frederick of the Palatinate ) ; but his absence at once made the Venetian ambassador fear that Savoy , perhaps with French or Spanish help , was intriguing to threaten the precedence claimed by the republic . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When she discovered , in the summer of 1977 , that 5,500 metres of plain cloth was ‘ hanging about in Helmond and they do n't know what to do with it ’ , she was appalled and gave orders for it to be made up into suitable garments immediately . |