Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] a [adj] rise " in BNC.

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1 There has also been a healthy rise in the real level of investment in new building and work which in 1991 contributed 36% of GDFCF .
2 There has also been a miraculous rise of the Liberals from the ashes — they may just squeak past 5 per cent themselves .
3 There has recently been a sharp rise of interest in artificial intelligence — very broadly the attempt to write computer programs to work at a human level of intelligence and performance in such tasks as identifying and recognising objects in cluttered environments , understanding ordinary human languages such as English , or diagnosing what is wrong in cases of human illness or machine failure .
4 Some 24 per cent of children drop out at the transition from primary to secondary school , while at secondary level there has recently been a significant rise in the drop-out rate .
5 Mr Normandale added that there had also been a recent rise in the landings of whiting , resulting in fish landing values rising £90,000 in the last two months to £312,330 .
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