Example sentences of "rose to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowadays , people all over the world unequivocally reject the idea of gulags , yet they are still willing to let themselves be hypnotised by totalitarian poesy and to march to new gulags to the tune of the same lyrical song piped by Eluard when he soared over Prague like the great archangel of the lyre , while the smoke of Kalandra 's body rose to the sky from the crematory chimney . |
| 2 | ‘ Lewis , ’ the other one rose to his feet and extended his hand . |
| 3 | But she said , ‘ If you 've finished your cottage pie , I 'll fetch the pudding , ’ and rose to her feet . |
| 4 | He pushed the duvet aside and rose to his feet . |
| 5 | The Heads of State rose to their feet . |
| 6 | She rose to her feet and walked on ; every so often she checked her pedometer , as she clocked up five , ten , fifteen miles . |
| 7 | The aim to clear applications within six weeks was achieved from August to December 1990 but the backlog then rose to eight weeks as applications increased . |
| 8 | Allen Tate rose to this challenge . |
| 9 | Howell rose to the occasion and during the following nine years Bowdoin was transformed : among other changes , women were admitted for the first time , and hitherto neglected subjects like Afro-American studies added to the curriculum . |
| 10 | In 1966 , however , when Mao began his dramatic bid for absolute power , using young Red Guards to discredit and persecute his old rivals within the party , Chen again rose to the occasion , acting as a mouthpiece for Mao 's increasingly scrambled thoughts and policies . |
| 11 | The survey was conducted before base rates rose to 15 per cent , and Dun and Bradstreet suggest that its findings might have been even bleaker had the poll been taken after the move . |
| 12 | The price was that much redundant labour was squeezed out of industry , and unemployment rose to above three million . |
| 13 | Harris rose to the position of full professor at York in 1971 . |
| 14 | Corporate funding , which rose to around £30m last year , has its part to play , irritating though it is when executives parade as great patrons while giving away their shareholders ' money . |
| 15 | Page 21 RPI up : Inflation rose to 7.6 per cent last month , worse than expected . |
| 16 | INFLATION last month rose to 7.6 per cent , reversing a recent ebbing of inflationary pressures and ending hopes of a decline by the end of this year . |
| 17 | Pat finished his cigarette and , looking at me as he rose to his feet , said , ‘ Piper , I believe it is all going to happen today . |
| 18 | The elderly couple sitting in chairs on either side of the fireplace rose to their feet as we entered . |
| 19 | At the start only 14 per cent of our panel reported Labour stressing these issues , but the figure rose to 20 per cent in the fourth week and 32 per cent in the fifth as Labour sought to divert attention away from defence and to move on from unemployment , which directly affected only a small minority , to education and especially the National Health Service , which directly affected the vast majority of the electorate . |
| 20 | By the end of 1922 the number rose to 33,800 for Soviet Belorussia , a smaller area . |
| 21 | The most enterprising and literate , those few who had travelled , in the army or otherwise , and the thin cream of village intelligenty ( agronomists and the like ) everywhere rose to the top in order to represent their less sophisticated brethren . |
| 22 | The density of population in this finest of all Black-Earth regions rose to 60–70 per sq . |
| 23 | The proportion of the population over 60 rose to nearly 29 per cent by 1980 , most of them women . |
| 24 | Unemployment rose to 13.3 per cent , the highest in Western Europe . |
| 25 | In Catholic working-class areas like Newry , Londonderry 's Bogside , and parts of West Belfast , it rose to even 30 or 40 per cent . |
| 26 | Then Ramsey rose to second the vote of thanks . |
| 27 | Despite the domestic chaos caused from being given such short notice , Pearce again rose to the challenge and had moved with his family to the US within six weeks . |
| 28 | US aid commitments to Zimbabwe began at $24m at Independence in 1980 , rose to $84m in 1982 , fell to $59m in 1984 and were set to fall well below $20m in early 1986 prior to a decision in September 1986 to cancel all future aid programmes … |
| 29 | The week before they were going to Dublin he went with the two girls and Rose to Boles in the town . |
| 30 | There were 448 players registered with the Football League in 1891 but this figure rose to around 5,000 by the Edwardian period . |