Example sentences of "have risen [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The permanent secretaries in charge of many government departments are arts graduates who have risen through the ranks of the meritocracy to become Knights of the Realm and heads of Oxbridge colleges , simply by virtue of their intellectual training , character , hard work and a modicum of good luck .
2 All have risen to the challenges of the year in many different ways and have helped ensure our future progress .
3 His is the sort of pedigree which has produced figures who have risen to the top of public life for generations .
4 It is also a fact that many of the Chief Executives of Insurance Companies have risen to the top by the actuarial route .
5 We have a suspicion that very little reaction has taken place because in fact very few bubbles have risen to the surface .
6 Add the mushrooms to the stew , drop in the dumplings and cook until they have risen to the surface and look fluffy .
7 Her true colours have risen to the surface . ’
8 Market-driven as ever , business schools have risen to the challenge .
9 Nobody would pretend that raising an additional twenty five million pounds is going to be easy but time and again you have risen to the challenge .
10 As I noted above , mortgage affordability is likely to fall to a 20-year low this year and while entry costs into the housing market have risen since the boom , they remain low in historical terms .
11 This is the first really high pass of the Pyrenees , 3,500 feet up , and a suitably stark spot once you have risen above the trees of the valley .
12 tt right , yeah , incomes have risen throughout the world and that impacts both on the demand for agricultural products and also the demand for manufactured products but what do we know about demand elasticities for those two products , income elasticities what 's the income elasticity of manufactured goods ?
13 Mr Fallon says that everyone knows living standards have risen in the North over the last ten years .
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