Example sentences of "[verb] risen to [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Thin veils of smoke , detected by satellite as far away as southeastern Pakistan , 2000 km east of Kuwait , were found to have risen to heights of between 6 and 7 km . |
| 10 | The current warm-weather soundtrack of choice for discerning numbskulls is Ugly Kid Joe , a quartet of stoned surfers who 've risen to power on the Young Dumb Fun ticket in a way that critically-defied combos like The Ramones never managed . |
| 11 | In August 1920 , the cost of a house which stood at £250 in 1914 , had risen to £930 on average . |
| 12 | Alan Travers had risen to prominence in his wife 's organisation and was now one of the Family Party 's two members of parliament . |
| 13 | A People 's Daily editorial of Jan. 16 , 1990 , entitled Leadership must be in the hands of loyal Marxists , called for the dismissal of party leaders " who do not have a firm political stand or staunch political qualities " , while Qiao Shi ( a member of the politburo standing committee who had risen to prominence in the immediate aftermath of the Tiananmen massacre — see p. 36721 ) called for " particular efforts " to be made in strengthening party centralism and unity , and urged increased supervision over the implementation of central committee decisions at all levels . |
| 14 | Gen. Dharsono , a former Secretary-General of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) , was an associate , but not a signatory , of the " Petition of 50 " movement of dissidents which had risen to prominence in 1984 with the publication of a " Save Democracy " pamphlet [ see pp. 33286-87 ] . |
| 15 | The ULFA , a Maoist group which had risen to prominence in 1990 , controlled large tracts of upper Assam and had carried out a series of assassinations , kidnappings and bomb attacks . |
| 16 | This had risen to 63% of the sample at the age of one year . |
| 17 | By March this year output had risen to 82% of this level . |
| 18 | There was just one way he , as a man who had risen to eminence in his profession , had learned to do things . |
| 19 | From AD 235 to 285 the Empire was ruled by a succession of men , mostly of undistinguished provincial background , who had risen to power through the control of armies . |
| 20 | However , when the successful contenders were revealed in July 1989 the figure had risen to £600m as a result of inflation and more stringent safety requirements . |
| 21 | As a small child , sick with temper when she was forced to do something against her will or even when she was strapped too tightly into a bed , she had risen to heights of defiance that genuinely alarmed her family . |
| 22 | In contrast , investment income has risen to 6pc from 3.5pc , and social-security benefits have risen to 13pc from 8pc . |
| 23 | Cappella Nova , who have performed so nobly throughout this enterprise and are about to celebrate their tenth anniversary , have risen to prominence as Scotland 's premier group specialising in contemporary choral music . |
| 24 | However , billings have risen to £1.06m. for the year ended 30 June 1987 , reflecting a dramatic recovery . |
| 25 | But the big spend as the group sorts out its core operations has already meant an increase in borrowing which have risen to £21m at the end of September compared with £160m the year before . |