Example sentences of "[verb] risen [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crime has risen by an average of six per cent in England and Wales with the largest rise in rural areas . |
| 2 | In real terms the cost of rail and bus travel has risen by an average of no more than five per cent above the rate of inflation in the last five years . |
| 3 | The financial markets ' measure of inflationary pressure is reflected by the yield on high-coupon , long-dated gilts less the yield on equivalent index linked gilts , which currently indicates that the anticipated long-run core inflation has risen from a rate of 4.43% to 5.56% a year over the life of the 20-year bond . |
| 4 | The Foreign Ministers signed an accord granting approximately US$53,000,000 in immediate EC aid ( which was expected to have risen to a total of approximately $147,000,000 by 1993 ) to help reactivate Central American trade as a means to strengthen the region 's current peace initiatives . |
| 5 | The sun had risen above a bank of puffy blue clouds that lay along the horizon . |
| 6 | Over the third quarter of this year , he told parliament , output by Soviet industry had risen at a rate of one per cent while wages were soaring at an annual pace of 15 per cent . |
| 7 | In June 1940 he had risen to a position of leadership as a result of extraordinary circumstances , to a degree by default ( because better-known people had either rallied to Pétain or done nothing ) , and certainly without having served a normal political apprenticeship . |
| 8 | In 1950 , the index ranged from 36 for Guatemala to 77 for Argentina , but by the mid 1970s , it had risen to a range of 43 for Bolivia and 90 for Puerto Rico ( Felix 1983 ) . |
| 9 | As a result in part of these factors , and also of firm demand , spot petroleum prices on the world market as characterized by the marker ( North Sea ) Brent crude , which had risen from a low of about dollars 12 in September 1988 ( see p. 36573 ) to dollars 16-dollars 17 around the turn of 1988-89 ( see p. 36411 ) and to over dollars 18 by mid-March 1989 ( see p. 36573 ) , increased further to over dollars 21 by mid-April . |
| 10 | Finn had risen like a god in the mornings , disdaining such suburban embellishments , frying bacon in a state of nature , roaring as the hot fat splattered his ribs . |
| 11 | Capital costs have risen as a result of increasing use of bought deals , and the need to set up research and secondary market trading operations ( to satisfy institutional investors ' liquidity requirements and to gain an investor base to complement primary activities ) , although capital requirements as such do not prevent a market being contestable . |