Example sentences of "rose from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John D. Rockefeller rose from a clerk in a commission merchant 's house to become one of the world 's richest men . |
| 2 | At the latter , over the third quarter of the eighteenth century , slavers rose from a quarter to a third of the merchant fleet . |
| 3 | Unemployment rose from a level of about 10% ( which had been maintained throughout most of the '20s ) to a high of 23% in 1932 . |
| 4 | On a deeper level , it will be shown that the case for the traditional view of the Muftilik-essentially that it rose from a position of relative unimportance to become , in the time of Suleyman , the principal office in the learned hierarchy-rests largely on premises conditioned by what one might call the " hierarchical " viewpoint . |
| 5 | A voice rose from a heap of clothes on the pavement , accompanied by the stench of alcohol-laden breath , a voice begging for a drink or money to buy a drink . |
| 6 | Warm scents rose from a honeysuckle hedge at Monboddo , the much-changed home of a man who , according to Sir Walter Scott , went out at night with a candle to inspect his turnips growing in the fields ; who , hating to sit behind a horse 's backside , would not travel in a carriage and therefore — he was in his eighties — rode to London on horseback ; who took a cold bath every day and damaged his children 's health by insisting they did the same ; and who , when in residence at Edinburgh , gave dinner parties at which his wine-flagons were wreathed in garlands of roses . |
| 7 | Following the first oil shock , inflation rose from a figure of about 5 per cent in both countries in the early 1970s to an annual average of 16 per cent in Britain and 19 per cent in Spain in the period 1973–8 . |
| 8 | At secondary level , enrolments have declined steadily since the beginning of the 1980s , while drop-outs rose from a low of 9.5 per cent in 1976 to 16.3 per cent in 1987 and repetition from 5.3 per cent in 1975 to a high of 13.5 per cent in 1985 . |
| 9 | Superheat surged from the quadruple nozzles , liquefying the flesh and fat of the nearest targets — boiling those liquids so that greasy steam rose from a pool of slumped steaming bones . |
| 10 | The Campbell gestured to the remains of a terraced street which rose from a wasteland of redevelopment . |
| 11 | Mrs Langley rose from a chair by the fire and Alexandra was aware of her daughters and someone else on a sofa in the great square bay window ; and even as Mrs Langley was greeting her she could hear Rose say clearly , ‘ Well , whatever else she has n't got , she certainly has elegant clothes , ’ and Alexandra , stung out of all terror quite suddenly , said crisply , ‘ I will tell my aunt how much you admire her taste . |
| 12 | Nobody showed any surprise at Dinah 's arrival ; the assembly rose from a table spread with books and slates ; the tutor , the governess , and the pale-faced children . |
| 13 | A lone horseman appeared in a vast landscape , a shot rang out in the badlands , dust rose from a wagon train . |
| 14 | From 1953 to 1964 the total fertility rate in England and Wales rose from a nadir of 2.14 in 1951 to its zenith of 2.94 in 1964 . |
| 15 | Social problems are crowding in on a city where the body-count for murders rose from a record 1,905 in 1989 to a new record of more than 2,200 in 1990 . |
| 16 | Total unleaded petrol rose from a market share of 7.7 per cent in January 1987 to 32 per cent by the beginning of 1991 . |
| 17 | On yesterday 's new grey market , the shares rose from an issue price of 585p to 612p . |
| 18 | Ten miles distant , Sandweg church loomed into view ; it rose from an ocean of grain like a vast liner in the doldrums . |
| 19 | At last a long despairing cry rose from the back of his throat and screamed shatteringly across the churchyard as he threw the baton away and clung sobbing to the angel . |
| 20 | A heron rose from the river and flapped away into a clump of tall trees in the distance . |
| 21 | Sam Maggott 's head rose from the debris of his office . |
| 22 | At last she rose from the water , wrapping a towel about her damp body as she walked to her room , mentally weighed down by her thoughts , and physically wearied , too . |
| 23 | The bird , which Gould called the harlequin bronzewing , and which later became known as the flock pigeon , rose from the water beside him and alighted on the ground 40 yards away , just within reach of Gould 's expert aim . |
| 24 | As we walked , grouse rose from the heather , calling out in alarm , . |
| 25 | There rose , and she looked and looked with her needles suspended , there curled up off the floor of the mind , rose from the lake of one 's being , a mist , a bride to meet her lover . |
| 26 | Mountains on the other side of the valley rose from the mist like islands , and here and there flecks of cloud , as pale and fine as sea-spray , trailed across their sombre , wooded slopes . |
| 27 | Sure enough , in the morning , a small round table holding an appetising array of titbits rose from the floor a minute or two before Susan and Michael had finished their exercise routine . |
| 28 | She stood there until the rapturous applause died down and the peacock screen rose from the floor , hiding all behind it , then , her eyes clouded by emotional tears conjured up by the sheer beauty of what she had just witnessed , she turned blindly , colliding with a hard male body . |
| 29 | It rose from the floor , out of the tattered grey wall-to-wall carpeting … |
| 30 | It was a cold morning , and a thin jet of steam rose from the pinhole vent on the coffee cup lid . |