Example sentences of "give [noun sg] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AFTER a week mulling over Budget proposals for offshore tax reform , British Petroleum has given support to the Chancellor 's moves to encourage more efficient oil and gas production . |
| 2 | Similarly , the prevention of further episodes of self-poisoning or self-injury continues to be a problem , and while retrospective investigations have given support to the policy of psychiatric intervention , prospective studies have failed to demonstrate any effect on repetition rates . |
| 3 | With several modifications , such varied anthropologists as D. Forde [ 1948 ] , M. Fortes ] 1953 ] , and M. Sahlins [ 1961 ] have given support to the view that segmentary systems , the modern anthropological equivalent of Morgan 's ‘ gentile systems ’ , seem to occur in societies with similar technologies and they are by and large of the type postulated in The Origin . |
| 4 | I am afraid that by taking the extraordinary measure of stapling this report ‘ because some of the contents are so disturbing ’ , Amnesty has again given credence to the belief that recent torture in Kuwait has been more terrible than in any other part of the world , whereas the repugnant patterns of pain-infliction described are all too familiar from Iran , from Myanmar , Amin 's Uganda , a South America , South Africa etc . |
| 5 | The Land Rover does n't belong to me and I 've got to make sure that those who 've given money to the trust do n't have it wasted . ’ |
| 6 | The range of policies needed to counter the root causes that have given rise to the underclass and keep it firmly in place at the bottom of the social hierarchy are examined in Part IV . |
| 7 | The outcome in this patient suggests that the delay in diagnosis and hence starting effective antibiotic treatment may have given rise to the abnormality in both the humoral response and T cell function , which on this occasion may have contributed to the development of an associated extraintestinal lymphoma . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) Subject to the following subsections , a person ( here referred to as ‘ the defendant ’ ) is answerable to the child if he was liable in tort to the parent or would , if sued in due time , have been so ; and it is no answer that there could not have been such liability because the parent suffered no actionable injury , if there was a breach of legal duty which , accompanied by injury , would have given rise to the liability . … |
| 9 | Some instinctive appreciation of this fact may have given rise to the mystique which surrounded £40 a year in contemporary culture . |
| 10 | This is in order to try to avoid the effects of subrogation , viz where the insurer pays out money to the landlord under an insurance policy he will be subrogated to any rights the landlord may have against the tenant for breaches of covenant which may have given rise to the damage or destruction . |
| 11 | When this happens , it is vital that the conflict be resolved and that broken or strained relationships which may have given rise to the problem be repaired . |
| 12 | The other view is that where the conduct of the plaintiff would have given rise to the defence at common law if he was suing for negligence , the defence is applicable . |
| 13 | Phillips ( 1986 ) has described how metamorphic fluids could have given rise to the mineralisation in Central Wales . |
| 14 | Such observations have given rise to the notion of the ‘ invulnerable child ’ and are now leading to a radical re-appraisal of the results of risk research , with a shift of emphasis towards trying to understand the factors that enable some individuals to survive , or even profit from , their disposition to insanity . |
| 15 | The programs in them have given rise to the myth that she was the world 's first programmer , but all the mathematical work in the notes was actually carried out by Babbage . |
| 16 | The capability of removing women 's eggs and placing them in another woman 's womb , has given rise to the question for the first time in human history who is the biological mother ? |
| 17 | This need for ‘ distance ’ from political control has given rise to the doctrine of the ‘ arm's-length ’ relationship in countries such as Britain where the classic form of the state enterprise has been the ‘ public corporation ’ under the control of a ‘ sponsor ’ department . |
| 18 | Continued disruption in the education sector was thought to have given rise to the dismissal of the Ministers of Education and the Universities , the new appointee to the latter post being upgraded to full Cabinet status . |
| 19 | The Act has given rise to the setting up of self-regulatory organisations by financial institutions and others concerned with the provision of financial services . |
| 20 | These were The Cock and The Bull , and anecdotes arising out of their proximity and rivalry were said to have given rise to the phrase ‘ cock and bull story ’ . |
| 21 | Which British prime ministers are said to have given rise to the phrase ‘ Bob 's Your Uncle ’ ? |
| 22 | This increased the ease with which the police could prosecute prostitutes , as they no longer required the assistance of an ‘ offended ’ member of the public , despite the fact that it was the supposed ‘ public nuisance ’ of street prostitution that had given rise to the need for legislation . |
| 23 | For example , without wishing to go into the debate about the Bishop of Durham s well-known views — and I want to say here that on the resurrection and virgin birth I take the traditional teaching of the Church — I am concerned when speakers are ignorant of some of the critical insights which have given rise to the Bishop 's well thought-out views . |
| 24 | Over the years , a few huge , widely reported pay-offs have given rise to the impression among more gullible members of the newspaper-reading public that six-figure golden handshakes are the norm for the departing business executive . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , this supposed trait and their tight , curly hair have given rise to the use of the name ‘ Poodle cats ’ as a popular term for them . |
| 26 | The comparative study of political systems and especially public policy-making has given rise to the belief that the distinction between politics and administration is artificial and that the role of administrators can not be settled by a definition which relegates them to a purely instrumental position . |
| 27 | This research programme concentrates upon a range of policy spheres where the growth of ‘ corporatist arrangements ’ has been sufficiently conspicuous and sufficiently contentious to have given rise to the term ‘ corporatism ’ with its suggestion of qualitative change in the politico-economic structure . |
| 28 | The research programme concentrates upon a range of policy spheres where the growth of ‘ corporatist arrangements ’ has been sufficiently conspicuous and sufficiently contentious to have given rise to the term ‘ corporatism ’ with its suggestion of a qualitative change in the politico-economic structure . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In 1972 , 41% of women over 16 were daily cigarette smokers ( a figure that had been fairly constant since the 1950s ) whilst in 1986 that figure was 31% , compared with 52% and 35% for men [ 1 ] : this has given rise to the assumption that women find it more difficult to give up smoking than men . |