Example sentences of "[verb] risen [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gloucestershire has risen to top of the national list for thefts from cars … and ninth above London , Thames Valley and Merseyside for total car crime . |
| 2 | In contrast , investment income has risen to 6pc from 3.5pc , and social-security benefits have risen to 13pc from 8pc . |
| 3 | If the value of existing units has risen to 75p for example , new subscribers will ‘ buy ’ newly created units at 75p and the number they purchase will be equal to the amount they wish to invest divided by 75p . |
| 4 | The equity proportion of financing has risen to 43% for deals below £10m in the last 18 months and to over 40% for deals above £10m . |
| 5 | The Kuwaiti Ministry of Public Works says the cost of completing the telecommunications tower in Kuwait City has risen to $175m from $110m : the increase is due mainly to damage done by the Iraqis during their occupation of the country , as well as changes in the project 's specifications and a rise in the cost of raw materials and labour . |
| 6 | On the subject of repeated offences , will the junior Minister now say why crime has risen on average by 6 per cent . |
| 7 | Revenues per employee has risen above $300,000 for the first time . |
| 8 | The cost of the tunnel has risen by £2.2bn to £7bn — forcing Eurotunnel to return to its bankers for fresh loans . |
| 9 | Despite much talk of cutting back the state , the central government 's annual output of new rules and changes to the old ones has risen by 8% since 1985 . |
| 10 | The latest figures show that the number of cases of serious backpain reported has risen by 40% over the past 5 years . |
| 11 | The real duty-paid price of beer has risen by 60% since 1979 , while the real duty-paid price of spirits has fallen by 10% ( Figure 2.3 ) . |
| 12 | Police Expenditure on the police has risen by 55% since 1978–1979 Insufficient effort , though , has been devoted to making sure policemen are on the beat . |
| 13 | In contrast , the real value of excise duties has risen by 7% for beers and by 17% for wines ( Figure 4.2 ) . |
| 14 | The pound has risen by 7% against the D-mark in the past two months , to DM2.50 , reflecting the diverging fortunes of the German and British economies . |
| 15 | ‘ They want to cover up falling union membership and the fact that under the last Labour Government investment rose by just 13pc whereas under the Conservatives it has risen by 55pc in real terms . |
| 16 | The proportion of all adults living alone has risen from 9% in 1973 to 13% in 1988 ( General Household Survey 1988 ) . |
| 17 | The level at which tax becomes payable has risen from £25,000 to £110,000 and the rates have been changed from an amount varying between 10 per cent and 75 per cent , to a single rate of 40 per cent . |
| 18 | In total our fruit consumption has risen from 61lb to 69lb per person . |
| 19 | The school funding debt has risen from £269,000 in 1989 to £1,896,000 this year . |
| 20 | • The ratio of duty on spirits to duty on wine has worsened from 1:1.65 in 1979 to 1:1.80 today , and the amount of duty on a 70cl bottle of Scotch Whisky — today 's standard size — has risen from £2.95 to £5.55 . |
| 21 | Subscription income has risen from £778,683 to £811,942 , an increase of 4.3% . |
| 22 | The number with saving goals has risen from 66% to 79% . |
| 23 | As prosperity has grown — income per person has risen from $145 in 1951 to $10,215 in 1992 — the birth rate has fallen , from about 50 per 1,000 in 1951 to just over 15 per 1,000 in 1992 . |
| 24 | Over the same period the outpatient cover has risen from £300 to £440 ( 49% ) . |
| 25 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 26 | Liverpool was a relative late-comer to the great docks of Britain , having risen to prominence in the eighteenth century through the cotton trade , importing raw cotton and ( like Bristol [ q.v. ] ) having a lively traffic in slaves , as well as exporting cotton goods . |
| 27 | It was ironic indeed ( although , of course , no one mentioned it ) that , having risen to power by lambasting the liberal democracies as " anti-Spain " , Franco 's permanence from the 1950s onwards owed a great deal to the political and economic capital invested in Spain by those same nations . |
| 28 | By next year , payroll tax-rates will have risen by 30% since 1978 , and half of all Americans will be paying more in payroll taxes than they do in ( more progressive ) income taxes . |
| 29 | In two years time , her bill will have risen by £4.50 to over £30 . ’ |
| 30 | In a few weeks ' time , the fallen leaves will have risen from ankle to knee deep . |