Example sentences of "risen [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not observed that , from the gale it had been , it had risen through level after level of violence to a power that no man living on Orkney had ever experienced or was to experience again . |
| 2 | Revenues per employee has risen above $300,000 for the first time . |
| 3 | It has to fend for itself , out of a budget that has just about risen with inflation in recent years . |
| 4 | In the old world the race of Man had risen from savagery to being the dominant civilisation in two short millennia . |
| 5 | The level at which tax becomes payable has risen from £25,000 to £110,000 and the rates have been changed from an amount varying between 10 per cent and 75 per cent , to a single rate of 40 per cent . |
| 6 | The proportion of all adults living alone has risen from 9% in 1973 to 13% in 1988 ( General Household Survey 1988 ) . |
| 7 | In a few weeks ' time , the fallen leaves will have risen from ankle to knee deep . |
| 8 | Professional Fees have risen from £10,000 to nearly £42,000 largely because of the need to employ solicitors , surveyors and agents for the move of the Council 's offices to Bedford Row . |
| 9 | The school funding debt has risen from £269,000 in 1989 to £1,896,000 this year . |
| 10 | He was commenting on the latest income support statistics , which showed that average weekly benefit payments had risen from £38.52 to £51.89 between 1990 and 1992 . |
| 11 | ‘ Non-fuel ’ running costs , for example , had risen from $25 per kilowatt of capacity in 1974 to $94 in 1984 , making nuclear plants about as expensive to run as coal . |
| 12 | The costs of the preferred British Rail route have risen from £1.7bn to between £3.5bn and £4bn partly because of extra tunnelling insisted upon by ministers after protests in south London and Kent . |
| 13 | In total our fruit consumption has risen from 61lb to 69lb per person . |
| 14 | Subscription income has risen from £778,683 to £811,942 , an increase of 4.3% . |
| 15 | The number with saving goals has risen from 66% to 79% . |
| 16 | First , because there are still far more betrayed women than men around : the percentage of wives playing away may have risen from 26% in the 50s to around 40% now , but a conservative estimate suggests that 60% of husbands have cheated at least once — and one US survey puts the figure as high as 82% . |
| 17 | By the end of the study there were no differences between the groups in the means of the last recorded random plasma glucose and glycated haemoglobin concentrations , though mean random plasma glucose values had risen from baseline by 1.3 mmol/l and 1.6 mmol/l in control and prompted groups respectively ( table VI ) . |
| 18 | Since Intrum first offered its shares to investors two years ago the Stock Market has slumped while Intrum 's shares have risen from 81p to 87p . |
| 19 | Once known primarily as the wife of Diego Rivera , her reputation outside of Mexico now far supercedes his : since 1919 , sale room estimates of her work have risen from $40,000 to over $1 million , and in 1990 a work by Kahlo broke all records at Sotheby 's New York for a Latin American artist . |
| 20 | When Clarke wanted to prove the adequacy of CSM 's resources to do its work he cited the fact that , in the three years since the government came to office in 1979 , these had risen from £1.1 to £1.2 million a year — a cut in real terms , according to the retail price index , of well over 20 per cent . |
| 21 | Over the same period the outpatient cover has risen from £300 to £440 ( 49% ) . |
| 22 | • The ratio of duty on spirits to duty on wine has worsened from 1:1.65 in 1979 to 1:1.80 today , and the amount of duty on a 70cl bottle of Scotch Whisky — today 's standard size — has risen from £2.95 to £5.55 . |
| 23 | As prosperity has grown — income per person has risen from $145 in 1951 to $10,215 in 1992 — the birth rate has fallen , from about 50 per 1,000 in 1951 to just over 15 per 1,000 in 1992 . |
| 24 | The cost of thefts from schools had risen from £60,000 to about £70,000 over the same period , representing a drop in real terms because of inflation . |
| 25 | ‘ Put simply , Derek , ’ Trevor replied , ‘ the production costs of marioc have risen in excess of the price the Martians can afford . |
| 26 | Health standards have risen in society at large . |
| 27 | In the absence of further information to the contrary , we are justified in assuming that money wages and the prices of non-labour inputs have also risen in proportion to the rise in price of final output . |
| 28 | That summer , in Berkeley , the Barb 's staff had risen in revolt against the founder/ proprietor Max Scherr . |
| 29 | Chevaline in all had risen in cost from £350 m. in 1974 to over £1 billion by 1982 , on top of the Polaris missile programme-even though by this time US-Soviet arms limitation agreements had made Chevaline redundant . |
| 30 | There is clear evidence that the peasantry have risen in rebellion on historic occasions , but how much likelihood is there of their political mobilisation in the changing context of rural Latin America ? |