Example sentences of "[verb] risen [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time unemployment has risen to new levels for the post-war years and continues to remain high . |
| 2 | The finite element method of finding numerical solutions to problems in elasticity , viscoelasticity , plasticity and fluid flow has risen to considerable prominence in the last 15 years . |
| 3 | Although the share of national wealth invested in education as a whole has gone down , taxpayer spending on publicity by the Department of Education and Science has risen in real terms since 1979 by no less than 28 times . |
| 4 | In the past 12 years , despite the protestations of the hon. Member for Renfrew , West and Inverclyde ( Mr. Graham ) , the funding of Scottish local authorities by Government has risen in real terms by 10 per cent . |
| 5 | John Wakeham , the new Secretary of State for Energy , had risen to public prominence in his previous Cabinet job by refusing to have nuclear waste dumped in his constituency . |
| 6 | He was a much-decorated officer who had risen to high rank before an honourable retirement . |
| 7 | At this time , the Christian factions within the Caliphates ( ex-slaves and captives who had risen to high office under Al-Mansur ) requested help from the Court of Castile . |
| 8 | Clinton had risen from impoverished childhood in Hope , Arkansas , to work his way through Georgetown University and hold a Rhodes scholarship ; he became the nation 's youngest sitting governor at 32 in 1979 . |
| 9 | The two most influential men in Bruges , the castellan and the dean of St Donatian 's , ex officio chancellor of Flanders , were both members of a powerful new family , the Erembalds , which had risen from servile origins to prominence by the route of comital administrative service . |
| 10 | He was a man who , like Marius Steen , had risen from humble origins to immense wealth and had surrounded himself with all the symbols of the established aristocracy . |
| 11 | Upon her death the property was bought by Matthew Lath , a man who had risen from humble origins through hard work and good fortune . |
| 12 | he had risen from humble beginnings to great wealth to become that legendary favourite of American politics , the poor farm boy who made good . |
| 13 | Tension between the republican leaderships and the military had risen in recent weeks over conscription and the stationing of Soviet troops in the republics . |
| 14 | These British prices are somewhat lower than those to be found in Continental Europe or the USA , but have risen towards European levels in recent years . |
| 15 | Since that was written our interest rates have risen in real terms to an all-time peak . |
| 16 | Unit costs for maintained schools have risen in real terms throughout the 1980s — by 42% between 1979–80 and 1988–9 . |