Example sentences of "[verb] risen [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confidence has risen since Christmas as prices dropped to more realistic levels . |
| 2 | The one and a half million pounds damages has risen with interest and costs to two million pounds . |
| 3 | Gloucestershire has risen to top of the national list for thefts from cars … and ninth above London , Thames Valley and Merseyside for total car crime . |
| 4 | On the subject of repeated offences , will the junior Minister now say why crime has risen on average by 6 per cent . |
| 5 | For the last ten years the spending of the City Council has risen beyond belief . |
| 6 | The proportion of service sector jobs within the economy as a whole , however , has risen over time . |
| 7 | Right , okay , so , in ge in general , we can say that world trade has risen over time due to essentially , well , is that , is there anything else that ? |
| 8 | Home-killed lamb is the best value , reveals a Meat and Livestock Commission report , which says meat is better value now than it was 10 years ago and has risen in price 15% less than the rise in inflation |
| 9 | Notice here that although demand has risen from year 2 to year 3 , net investment has remained the same . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was ironic indeed ( although , of course , no one mentioned it ) that , having risen to power by lambasting the liberal democracies as " anti-Spain " , Franco 's permanence from the 1950s onwards owed a great deal to the political and economic capital invested in Spain by those same nations . |
| 13 | In a few weeks ' time , the fallen leaves will have risen from ankle to knee deep . |
| 14 | Food prices were reported to have risen on average by 6 per cent during one week . |
| 15 | The current warm-weather soundtrack of choice for discerning numbskulls is Ugly Kid Joe , a quartet of stoned surfers who 've risen to power on the Young Dumb Fun ticket in a way that critically-defied combos like The Ramones never managed . |
| 16 | The Al Fayeds had risen without trace — yet Kleinwort Benson still insisted that there was ’ no hidden hand behind them ’ . |
| 17 | Mary Deare was still there after the curtain had risen on Act Four , and frantic because she 'd run out of matches . |
| 18 | She had risen at dawn each day , when the sky was still apricot-coloured and swum naked and alone as the sun rose . |
| 19 | He had not observed that , from the gale it had been , it had risen through level after level of violence to a power that no man living on Orkney had ever experienced or was to experience again . |
| 20 | Alan Travers had risen to prominence in his wife 's organisation and was now one of the Family Party 's two members of parliament . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ] . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | There was just one way he , as a man who had risen to eminence in his profession , had learned to do things . |
| 25 | From AD 235 to 285 the Empire was ruled by a succession of men , mostly of undistinguished provincial background , who had risen to power through the control of armies . |
| 26 | Yesterday it announced figures for the first half of 1989 so late in the day that the London market had mostly packed up and gone home by the time the screens showed that profits had risen from Ir £109m to Ir £121m and earnings were up from 21.7p to 25.4p basic . |
| 27 | In the old world the race of Man had risen from savagery to being the dominant civilisation in two short millennia . |
| 28 | By the end of the study there were no differences between the groups in the means of the last recorded random plasma glucose and glycated haemoglobin concentrations , though mean random plasma glucose values had risen from baseline by 1.3 mmol/l and 1.6 mmol/l in control and prompted groups respectively ( table VI ) . |
| 29 | That summer , in Berkeley , the Barb 's staff had risen in revolt against the founder/ proprietor Max Scherr . |
| 30 | Chevaline in all had risen in cost from £350 m. in 1974 to over £1 billion by 1982 , on top of the Polaris missile programme-even though by this time US-Soviet arms limitation agreements had made Chevaline redundant . |