Example sentences of "[was/were] giving rise [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gathering force of worrying rumour about the killing in asylums of mentally sick and incurably ill patients was one factor which , especially but not solely among practising Christians , was giving rise to grave concern and threatening to alienate support for the regime In August 1941 , news of the courageous open denunciation of the ‘ euthanasia action ’ by Bishop Galen of Münster spread rapidly and seems to have persuaded Hitler to halt the killing , at least inside the Reich itself . |
| 2 | The next stage was to carry out a proper evaluation of the message , in an attempt to determine what was giving rise to the ambiguity ( i.e. , what was missing from the message ) . |
| 3 | Rather , the argument was that industrialism was giving rise to new , and massive , urban concentrations and these latter were having distinct social effects . |
| 4 | Computer technology was giving rise to a variety of innovative developments , and the field was in general pioneered by the CNAA and its institutions before the universities took up the challenge . |
| 5 | The nineteenth-century impact of Europe on the Middle East was giving rise to critics in the Islamic world . |