Example sentences of "[verb] risen [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our level of ambition has risen with the success of ‘ Thumping Good Read ’ , and we want this campaign to be trendsetting and generate the kind of sales that would prompt publishers to alter their practices . ’ |
| 2 | Ever since its first exhibition in 1948 , which brought works by De Chirico , Man Ray , Picasso , Francis Bacon and others to the public attention , the ICA has risen to the challenge of supporting the innovative or the unfamiliar with considerable energy . |
| 3 | SPENDING on all sectors of education has risen under the Conservatives by 20 per cent in real terms , a study by the London School of Economics showed yesterday . |
| 4 | In the last decade or so the area has become fairly well known as the centre of production of red wine which has risen in the hierarchy of wines of Languedoc : it should achieve further fame for its ponts naturels . |
| 5 | Although the proportion of GNP taken in tax has risen in the UK since the early 1970s , the UK is , in comparative terms , only a middle-ranked country in terms of tax-take , with tax ( excluding community charge ) amounting to 35.2% of GNP in 1990 . |
| 6 | Apple Computer , the Cinderella company that has risen from the backyard to a worldwide name in six years , is going to give a computer to every public and private school in the state — that 's about 10 000 computers with a retail value of almost $20 million . |
| 7 | But in the past few years a phoenix has risen from the flames of Lakehurst . |
| 8 | A new self has risen from the ashes of the old body . |
| 9 | THE landmark spire of Colmcille Roman Catholic church in Holywood has risen from the ashes of the fire which virtually destroyed it four years ago . |
| 10 | Situated on the coastline of Omura Bay near the City of Nagasaki , the town of Huis ten Bosch covers an area of 1.5 million square metres and has risen from the ground in less than eight years . |
| 11 | Narasimha Rao , has risen near the top of Indian politics by pushing a militant Hindu-nationalist line . |
| 12 | In fact , one way and another the food is very aptly named , having risen from the ashes in two senses ! |
| 13 | They may have risen through the ranks of secretarial work or come from journalism . |
| 14 | It had seemed so important to make a good impression , to show him that she had risen above the way of life in the alleys , but it was a selfish , uncaring side of her he had seen . |
| 15 | And when she had risen on the wings of ecstasy , then , the tip of his prying tongue alighted upon her dinky bottom-hole . |
| 16 | He looked lovingly at the paints and brushes and swallowed a pain that had risen at the back of his throat . |
| 17 | Pavlov , 53 , had started his career as a district auditor and had risen through the ranks of the Finance Ministry and the State Planning Committee ( Gosplan ) and State Pricing Committee , being appointed Minister of Finance in 1989 . |
| 18 | He had risen to the post of corporate manager at the Ermine Business Park branch in Huntingdon . |
| 19 | During the war years Harold had risen to the rank of major in the Canadian Army and he looked very smart in his uniform . |
| 20 | It was in this connection that Sir John Ross [ q.v. ] speaks of him in his Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez ( vol ii , 1838 , p. 72 ) : ‘ Captain , afterwards Admiral , William Mitchell , an officer who had risen to the rank of rear-admiral by his good conduct , after having been flogged round the fleet for desertion . ’ |
| 21 | According to an OECD report published on Feb. 28 , 1990 , the total debt of the east European countries ( including the Soviet Union ) had risen by the end of 1989 to US$114,000 million ( from US$99,000 million in 1988 and US$60,000 million in 1984 ) . |
| 22 | After several years during which agricultural surpluses had been substantially reduced , they had risen by the end of 1990 and stood at : cereals — 18,000,000 tonnes ; beef — 700,000 tonnes ; butter — 278,000 tonnes ; skimmed milk powder — 335,000 tonnes ; wine — 8,000,000 hectolitres ; and tobacco — 30,000 tonnes . |
| 23 | Much against their natural inclinations , Jesus 's earthly followers were gradually persuaded that far from the Friday being the disastrous and final demise of their hero , by some inexplicable divine miracle he had dealt death itself a death-blow , and had risen from the grave to a new and everlasting life-form . |
| 24 | The two girls had risen from the couch at her entrance . |
| 25 | The number of working hands had risen in the volost' from 577 in 1917 to 872 now . |
| 26 | FitzAlan would only snap at her anyway , as he had been doing from the minute they had risen in the half-light of a chilly grey dawn . |
| 27 | Born to salty , honest East End folk — this was hinted at , the script sensibly avoiding the risk of fleshing them out — he had risen in the City to a financial position which permitted him to park his BMW beside the flash docklands flat , close to his rough but pure roots , in which he kept his nice French bird . |
| 28 | This report accepted that unemployment had risen within the LDDC from about 3,500 in 1981 to about 5,000 in 1986 ; that approximately eighty companies had been relocated out of the area through compulsory purchases implemented by the LDDC ; and that many locals were not gaining from the corporation 's activities . |
| 29 | The permanent secretaries in charge of many government departments are arts graduates who have risen through the ranks of the meritocracy to become Knights of the Realm and heads of Oxbridge colleges , simply by virtue of their intellectual training , character , hard work and a modicum of good luck . |
| 30 | All have risen to the challenges of the year in many different ways and have helped ensure our future progress . |