Example sentences of "[verb] risen [prep] prominence [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 2 | Liverpool was a relative late-comer to the great docks of Britain , having risen to prominence in the eighteenth century through the cotton trade , importing raw cotton and ( like Bristol [ q.v. ] ) having a lively traffic in slaves , as well as exporting cotton goods . |
| 3 | Alan Travers had risen to prominence in his wife 's organisation and was now one of the Family Party 's two members of parliament . |
| 4 | A People 's Daily editorial of Jan. 16 , 1990 , entitled Leadership must be in the hands of loyal Marxists , called for the dismissal of party leaders " who do not have a firm political stand or staunch political qualities " , while Qiao Shi ( a member of the politburo standing committee who had risen to prominence in the immediate aftermath of the Tiananmen massacre — see p. 36721 ) called for " particular efforts " to be made in strengthening party centralism and unity , and urged increased supervision over the implementation of central committee decisions at all levels . |
| 5 | Gen. Dharsono , a former Secretary-General of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) , was an associate , but not a signatory , of the " Petition of 50 " movement of dissidents which had risen to prominence in 1984 with the publication of a " Save Democracy " pamphlet [ see pp. 33286-87 ] . |
| 6 | The ULFA , a Maoist group which had risen to prominence in 1990 , controlled large tracts of upper Assam and had carried out a series of assassinations , kidnappings and bomb attacks . |
| 7 | Cappella Nova , who have performed so nobly throughout this enterprise and are about to celebrate their tenth anniversary , have risen to prominence as Scotland 's premier group specialising in contemporary choral music . |