Example sentences of "[verb] be raised [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 On the 85 m long viaduct over the Water of Leith and at other bridges over local roads the original parapet has been raised for reasons of public safety , and lighting is being provided on sections of route in built-up areas .
2 £50 million has been raised for charity to date
3 About £1 million has been raised for charity by the display and reproduction of the watercolours which the Prince of Wales has painted in recent years but the exhibition which opens to the public today is his first one-man show in Scotland .
4 Since the first Red Nose Day in 1985 £70 million has been raised for projects in Africa and the UK .
5 In recent years , concern has been raised over exposure to ionizing radiation from radon gas .
6 THE cost limit on Commons written replies has been raised from £400 to £450 , Stephen Dorrell , the Financial Secretary to the Treasury , announced in a Commons written reply last night .
7 A CAIRN has been raised in honour of two Polish pilots who died when their planes crashed 50 years ago .
8 Yet personal allowances should have been raised in line with last December 's inflation rate of 2.6 per cent , allowing taxpayers to earn at least an extra £90 a year before tax .
9 Lucille , a Norman , had been raised on stories of the merciless English pirates who lived just across the Channel and who , for centuries , had raided her homeland to kill and burn and plunder .
10 The limit in respect of advice in relation to undefended divorce proceedings had been raised to £45 in April 1977 when legal aid ceased to be available for such proceedings and that figure was subsequently raised to £55 in 1979 , £75 in 1981 and £90 in 1985 .
11 Fouts then began work with Lucy , at that time 5 years old , who had been raised since birth as one of the family of a psychotherapist , Maury Temerlin , and his wife .
12 She told me that there was some money in a bank account which had been raised in memory of her daughter .
13 The original seven dwellings to the acre had been raised in Britain to around seventeen , at which density ‘ culs-de-sac and walkways , cars and garages did not merge into the landscape so happily . ' ’
14 The senior component of what became The East Surrey Regiment under the 1881 Cardwell Reforms had been raised in Huntingdonshire in 1702 as The 31st Regiment of Foot .
15 In all , some £24 billion had been raised from sales by the end of 1988 .
16 Some theological questions have been raised in connection with American-style televangelism and with religious broadcasting of the public service type .
17 We firmly believe , without prejudging all the issues which have been raised in relation to the problem , that whatever mistakes were made should be viewed against the background of her overall contribution on the one hand and the activities of the enemy on the other .
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