Example sentences of "[adv] rise to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes they confuse me with the hon. Member for Walthamstow ( Mr. Summerson ) — I am the hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford , and unemployment in my constituency has not risen to quite the extent that he suggests . |
| 2 | It is also important that the level of carbon dioxide does not rise to too high a level . |
| 3 | There is a great deal of support in the EC for such a discriminatory tax , eventually rising to as much as $10 a barrel . |
| 4 | The price of oil would probably rise to more than $50 a barrel and dig in for a stay of some months . |
| 5 | The Duke turned Friar in Measure for Measure cultivates at least two different prose-styles , a plain and business-like one for his benevolent deceptions , and that of a moralist disappointed with the world — a persona within which he can also rise to more serious denunciatory verse as the occasion warrants ( for verse within this prose role see III.ii. 19–39 ; 261–82 ; IV.ii. 108–13 ) . |
| 6 | The population in 1961 was 629 but has now risen to just over 800 and will probably remain at this due to the closeness of BP Chemicals which dominates the skyline at Saltend . |
| 7 | For example , in the mid-1960s less than a third of the students at university were girls ; that figure has now risen to over 40 per cent and is probably still rising ( Blackstone , 1983 ) . |
| 8 | Although sheep numbers in Sussex have now risen to nearly pre-war numbers , comparatively few are to be found on permanent downland pasture . |
| 9 | That has now risen to around 11:1 and if the squeeze goes on could go even higher . |
| 10 | Following a tender competition , the offer from Fairclough Building Ltd. was chosen , but the cost had now risen to almost £1.3 million , partly because of the imposition of VAT on building operations in the 1984 budget . |
| 11 | During the previous twenty-five years Chesterfield 's burial totals never rose to more than seventy per annum and were usually at a much lower level , but in 1587 the number of recorded deaths reached a staggering 313 . |