Example sentences of "saw the [adj] rise " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right which saw the temporary rise to prominence of the NPD between 1966 and 1968 brought a very minor revival of positive views about Hitler and Nazism . |
| 2 | I had no idea whether he saw the tenfold rise in numbers applying as a problem to be addressed and , if so , how he would deal with it . |
| 3 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 4 | The First World War saw the rapid rise of trade union membership from 4 million in 1914 to about 6 million in 1918 . |
| 5 | He saw the American rise . |