Example sentences of "[noun] went up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Average tax revenue went up from 34 p.c. of national income in 1979 to 40 p.c. in 1982 but this was necessary to eliminate public sector borrowing , which at some 6 p.c. of national income was an implicit ( deferred ) tax rate . |
| 2 | House sales over the six months went up from 357 units for the previous comparable period to 409 . |
| 3 | The rent went up to thirty pounds a week . |
| 4 | There was a dramatic fall in light industrial output , while savings went up by 133,400 million yuan , the largest rise ever . |
| 5 | A niece of the former Labour minister Douglas Jay and first cousin of Peter Jay , the former British ambassador in Washington who is now the BBC 's economics editor , her ratings went up in certain quarters when she once said of Mrs Thatcher : ‘ She is not the sort of person one would invite to dinner . ’ |
| 6 | President Clinton 's ratings went up by nine percent . |
| 7 | I regret that the seasonally adjusted figure went up by 700 to 121,600 last month , but I remind the hon. Gentleman that in January 1986 , the figure was over 170,000 . |
| 8 | The figure went up from 178 in 1982 to 252 in 1991 . |
| 9 | Odette 's weight went up to 17½ stone before she found the strength she needed to tackle her eating problem . |
| 10 | ‘ Not till — ’ But their argument was violently interrupted as a cheer of derision went up from another corner of the playground and Jack caught a glimpse of Derek 's looming bulk in the middle of a crowd of children . |
| 11 | The take-off flare went up at 0440 hours and Colonel Seawell was the first away as Group Commander . |
| 12 | The spread of readily available and simple means of contraception has meant that the wife is less likely to spend much of her life in the bearing and rearing of children and is more likely to seek employment outside the home , thereby developing a source of income and interests outside her traditionally defined role : ‘ … in Britain the proportion of all wives in paid work went up from 10 per cent in 1911 ( as it remained in 1931 ) to 26 per cent in 1951 and 42 per cent in 1971 ’ ( Young and Willmott , 1975 , p. 101 ) . |
| 13 | The main tax rates remained unchanged , while most tax allowances and excise duties were increased in line with inflation ( 7.7 per cent over the 12 months to December 1989 ) , although some duties went up by 10 per cent . |
| 14 | The news media learned of the arrests next morning and over a number of days outraged protests went up from loyalist spokesmen , including leaders of loyalist political parties and Andrew Beattie 's colleagues on the Constitutional Stoppage Central Co-ordinating Committee . |
| 15 | The curtain went up at 2 pm , so the children had to arrive at the theatre at about 1.15 to get ready . |
| 16 | For motorists , at six o' clock , the price of petrol and diesel went up by three pence per litre . |
| 17 | The cry went up for more pix . |
| 18 | Everywhere in the region suffered : Thames Valley went up by 212 per cent and even rural Wiltshire rose by 205 per cent . |
| 19 | His handicap went up to six . |
| 20 | His handicap went up to six . |
| 21 | My handicap went up in twos the winters I spent with him . |
| 22 | The cost of bread , rice , flour and meat went up by 300 per cent , as did the prices of children 's clothing ; the cost of milk , eggs , cheese , sugar and tea , and adult clothing , went up by 200 per cent ; fares on public transport went up by between 70 and 140 per cent . |
| 23 | As it got closer , its lights went up to full beam . |
| 24 | Nationwide , unemployment figures went up by 41,000 , making the total 2,908,900 million . |
| 25 | Both road traffic and the overall casualty rate per passenger mile went up by one per cent . |
| 26 | If that is doing nothing , what were the last Labour Government doing when inflation went up to 27 per cent ? |
| 27 | Police salaries adjusted for inflation went up from 983 million in 1979 when the Conservatives came to power , to 2,378 million by 1987 , a rise of some 47 per cent in real terms . |
| 28 | East Germany 's slender claim to legitimacy rests above all on the fraudulent implication that it is the good non-Nazi , never-Nazi Germany , any Nazi-supporters having joined the four million renegades whose Westward migration almost drained East Germany dry before the Wall went up on 13 August 1961 . |
| 29 | The total fertility rate went up from 2.22 to 2.94 — an increase of 32 per cent . |
| 30 | Gascoigne went up to each player in the dressing-room before the kick-off , roughly shook him , and demanded he die for the club and the cause . |