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Example sentences for "give rise"

  • When a union is concluded between a person who is capable in all respects, and another who is not, the latter should give the other permission to procreate children by a third party, more adapted to give rise to healthy offspring.

  • In reality, a number of ideas, or subconscious cerebral activities, act at the same time as that of my wife to give rise to the idea of the journey.

  • When it is entirely absent the most powerful seduction and the most evil influence cannot give rise to the corresponding anomaly.

  • From the abdomen of the embryo arises an organ, the allantois, which is destined to carry the blood-vessels of the embryo to the placenta, and at the same time to give rise to the formation of the latter.

  • This simple fact is sufficient to give rise to the idea that coitus is impure, and I do not think it necessary to seek any further explanation.

  • And it seems likely that in the course of time a sharpening of the critical insight and temper will give rise to further reactions from the academic theory as we have come to know it.

  • All such series derived from a given group may be shown to consist of the same number of terms, and to give rise to the same set of factor-groups, except as regards sequence.

  • The alternation, on a grand scale, of distinct formations of clay and limestone has caused the oolitic and liassic series to give rise to some marked features in the physical outline of parts of England and France.

  • As deluges have been often alluded to, I shall say something of the causes which may be supposed to give rise to these grand movements of water in addition to those already alluded to (p.

  • As to the polishing and grooving of hard rocks, it has lately been ascertained that glaciers give rise to these effects when pushing forward sand, pebbles, and rocky fragments, and causing them to grate along the bottom.

  • From each side of the deep valley or ravine of Terranuova enormous masses of the adjoining flat country were detached, and cast down into the course of the river, so as to give rise to great lakes.

  • Driesch afterwards noticed that eggs of the sea-urchin treated with sea-water which is free from lime have a tendency to give rise to twins.

  • That so many species have been able to give rise to white varieties does not depend on a special sensitiveness of the skin to the influence of cold, but to the fact that Mammals and Birds have a general tendency to vary towards white.

  • Radium and thorium, but not uranium, give rise to radio-active gases which have been called emanations.

  • Note: The protovertebræ were long regarded as rudiments of the permanent vertebræ, but they are now known to give rise to the dorsal muscles and other structures as well as the vertebral column.

  • Why should forms originally so different, as the cat with its striped markings and the rabbit with no markings at all, give rise to the same colour varieties?

  • The only forms in which silver is likely to give rise to accident are the salts used in medicine, photography, in the dyeing of hair, and in the manufacture of marking inks.

  • I have given a variety of instances in which the natural prejudice, that causes and their effects must resemble one another, has operated in practice so as to give rise to serious errors.

  • Many phenomena have a direct tendency to perpetuate their own existence, or to give rise to other phenomena similar to themselves.

  • But in the next place comes a much more difficult inquiry:--Are the causes indicated competent to give rise to the phenomena of organic nature?

  • It is demonstrable, I think, as I have endeavoured to show you, that they are perfectly competent to give rise to all the phenomena which are exhibited by RACES in nature.

  • The horse and the ass, for instance, if so crossed, give rise to the mule, and there is no certain evidence of offspring ever having been produced by a male and female mule.

  • Secondly, he proved that these germs were competent to give rise to living forms by simply sowing them in a solution fitted for their development.

  • He strained air through cotton-wool, and found, as Schroeder and Dusch had done, that it contained nothing competent to give rise to the development of life in fluids highly fitted for that purpose.

  • The spores could not be made to give rise to such germs by cultivation; nor were such germs discoverable in the air, or in the food of the fly.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    each being; fatal mistake; give account; give anything; give below; give birth; give forth; give full; give instruction; give life; give myself; give notice; give ourselves; give rise; give them; given direction; given him; given length; given over; given substance; given them; given weight; gives birth; regula fidei; will enable; you wanted