Example sentences of "[be] rising in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the major firms this stock has been rising in some cases at over 20% per annum , and has proved to be a very good investment in spite of not being on the market . |
| 2 | Furthermore , since the Korean War , military expenditure has , by and large , been falling as a percentage of GDP and material living standards have been rising in most capitalist economies . |
| 3 | Nitrate levels have been rising in the ground water in Nottinghamshire , certainly most of the bore-holes , for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 4 | It is clear that this is partly due to the fact that incomes have been rising in real terms , so that people feel able to take on an increased burden of debt . |
| 5 | Unemployment has been rising in the United States , Italy , France and Canada , and in every country of the European Community . |
| 6 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman is aware of the fact that unemployment has been rising in most European Community countries and that it is higher than it was a year ago in every EFTA and G7 country . |
| 7 | The IDB president , Enrique Iglesias of Uruguay , had said on April 4 that although Japanese investment had been rising in Chile , Mexico , Brazil and Venezuela , " we see potential for much more " . |
| 8 | Mr Lamont said : ‘ The key to an improved trade performance lies in the competitiveness of our products — and the signs are encouraging : earnings are now growing more slowly than at any time for 25 years ; labour productivity has been rising rapidly , and while unit wage costs in manufacturing have been rising in Japan and Germany , here they showed no increase at all during 1992 . |
| 9 | ‘ Birth rates are rising in the Third World — population growth is getting out of control . ’ |
| 10 | The tensions of racism and fascism are rising in Europe — all the things which we resolutely moved armies to defeat in the past . |
| 11 | Some observers claim new patterns of involvement are rising in the economic recession . |
| 12 | An unpublished report for the German government obtained by Greenpeace show that levels of heavy metals are rising in the central North Sea area , including the Dogger Bank , a major fishing ground . |
| 13 | The IMF has therefore taken fright at the thought that with the economy still in recession , the Government 's tax revenues are at best static , while spending on unemployment benefit and income supplements are rising in line with the unemployment figures , and the deficit on the Chancellor 's own admission is set to reach £37 billion this financial year and £44 billion next . |
| 14 | Costs can be rising in a natural monopoly industry . |
| 15 | Their voices were rising in a long , edged , lifting cry like seagulls before a storm . |
| 16 | Their voices were rising in a strong chorus in his ears . |
| 17 | ‘ Sun 's rising in the East now ; gone to shine on your Mom . ’ |
| 18 | Jack Cade 's rising in 1450 , which affected mainly Kent and various neighbouring counties , was a far more serious affair , and had repercussions over a much wider area . |
| 19 | WHILE the number of mortgage defaulters is rising in Britain , it is falling in the United States . |
| 20 | By subtracting the slow rate at which the planet 's surface is rising in the Barbados area , known from previous geological work onshore , he could work out where sea level stood at different times in the past . |
| 21 | UNEMPLOYMENT is rising in the South East twice as fast as anywhere else in Britain , figures showed yesterday . |
| 22 | ROBERT JONES has done more than enough to eclipse the new Moon that is rising in Welsh rugby . |
| 23 | Orion has yet to make his entry ; we have lost Scorpius and Sagittarius , while Capella is rising in the north-east and Vega dropping in the north-west , though the other two members of the ‘ Summer Triangle ’ , Deneb and Altair , are still high . |
| 24 | Thus , within the bourgeoisie as a whole , we find a particular formation which ( a ) is rising in importance and ( b ) has distinct religious and intellectual affiliations . |
| 25 | Unemployment is rising in every European country except Spain , where it is nearly twice as high as it is here , and in every European Free Trade Association country , and in every G7 country it is higher than it was a year ago . |
| 26 | In fact , unemployment is rising in every member state of the European Community except Spain — where it is already nearly double our level — and in every member country of the European Free Trade Association , and it is higher today than it was a year ago in every G7 country . |
| 27 | Unemployment is rising in every European country except in Spain , but there it is twice as high as it is in Britain . |
| 28 | Oliver Cromwell was rising in prestige and influence with every victory won by his invincible regiment , nicknamed the ‘ Ironsides ’ . |
| 29 | The silver shield of the moon was rising in a cloudless frosty sky , and the November stars wheeled low . |
| 30 | Indeed , the influence of women writers at the time was rising in many areas , as Fanny Burney 's Evelina ( 1778 ) and Hannah Cowley 's dramatic works placed them in the forefront of contemporary literature . |