Example sentences of "rising to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around the third glass of wine , she would become vehement , a soft rose rising to her cheeks from the ivory-silk of her blouse . |
| 2 | Then turn your hips behind a long reverse punch to hit the opponent square in the chest , just as his knee is rising to its full height . |
| 3 | Across the yard in the oast house , hops fresh from this year 's harvest are placed in a kiln for 12 to 14 hours and heated by electric fans at temperatures starting at 90 degrees F and rising to 140° . |
| 4 | The conference approved the Economic Equality policy review which proposes : Ending tax on childcare ; Introducing a minimum wage starting at half of average male earnings ( £2.80 an hour ) , rising to two-thirds the average ; Income tax levels of no higher than 50 per cent at the top , down to less than 20 per cent at the bottom ; ‘ A significant and generous increase in child benefit over the lifetime of the Parliament ’ ; To tax gifts and inheritance at the point of receipt ; To crack down on tax loopholes ; Raise pensions immediately by £5 for single people and £8 for couples ; To introduce a new disability benefit ; To simplify income support rules ; To keep mortgage interest tax relief ‘ at a single rate equivalent to the basic rate relief which we inherit ’ . |
| 5 | Initially , the company will create 200 new jobs , rising to 520 over the next few years . |
| 6 | Considered purely as a recital by Golani , this was a riveting evening : in such a degree of intimacy her restless prowling , crouching , rising to full height , even stamping , combines with the intense commitment of her playing not to impede the music but to dramatise it , to add a further dimension to its urgency . |
| 7 | In any event , production at the plant will begin in late 1991 rising to 100,000 cars a year by 1995 . |
| 8 | More than 11 million people are expected through the doors at the Paris site in year one ( 1992 ) , rising to more than 16 million by its peak . |
| 9 | GM , the world 's largest car maker , is understood to be planning to take an initial 15 per cent shareholding in Jaguar , rising to 29.9 per cent immediately the Government 's golden share in Jaguar expires in January 1991 . |
| 10 | From 16 October , margins on the December London Fox contract will be £200 a tonne , rising to £350 on 30 October , £500 on 13 November , £600 on 27 November , and the full value of the contract on 5 December . |
| 11 | GM 's plan is to take a 15 per cent stake in the Coventry-based car maker rising to 29.9 per cent immediately the golden share expires at the end of next year . |
| 12 | Television / Rising to the Cajun |
| 13 | Its last detailed forecast , published before the latest increase in base rates , predicts unemployment rising to 1.72 million in the last quarter of this year . |
| 14 | Duncan looked at his wrist watch , and rising to his feet said , ‘ I had better be going now , Piper . |
| 15 | Furthermore , Piper , I wo n't be in this trench tonight , ’ continued Taff , rising to his feet and climbing out of the trench . |
| 16 | After a few minutes ' walk I arrived at the edge of the wooded area ; in front of me was about two hundred yards of grass , rising to the high ground covered by thick gorse and ferns . |
| 17 | By a majority of 51 per cent at the start of the campaign , rising to 58 per cent at the end , Conservative partisans claimed that their paper was biased towards the Conservative party . |
| 18 | A smaller majority of Labour partisans asserted that their papers had a pro-Labour bias ( 22 per cent rising to 32 per cent ) . |
| 19 | Because a majority of Conservative supporters were economic optimists and a majority of Labour supporters were economic pessimists , the difference between net optimism amongst Conservative and Labour supporters exceeded 100 per cent : it was 105 per cent in the Pre-Campaign Wave , rising to 121 per cent by the end of the campaign . |
| 20 | Amongst Labour identifiers , the effect of reading a right-wing paper on their relative preference for the Conservatives on unemployment was 13 per cent in the Pre-Campaign Wave , rising to 19 per cent by the second half of the campaign ( Table 8.10 ) . |
| 21 | Through the woods and landscaped parklands of one of England 's great country houses , rising to the ridge of the Howardian Hills — a gentle escarpment overlooking the Vale of Pickering and the North York Moors . |
| 22 | It seemed well on the way to revival , with the balance-of-payments surplus rising to £1,000 m. in 1978 and the pound , now a petro-currency , rising to not far short of $2 on the foreign exchange . |
| 23 | It seemed well on the way to revival , with the balance-of-payments surplus rising to £1,000 m. in 1978 and the pound , now a petro-currency , rising to not far short of $2 on the foreign exchange . |
| 24 | On the grounds of preventing young workers ' wages rising to a level which might price them out of work it scrapped the 1946 Fair Wages Resolution , which required compliance with minimum wage standards for firms trying to secure government and other contracts . |
| 25 | He is an ‘ insider ’ : an ex-member of MI5 , rising to deputy director ; but you could not tell that from this book . |
| 26 | US aid to Sudan stood at $64m in 1981 , rising to $121m in 1984 ; in 1986 total US military and economic aid to Sudan stood at $158m prior to total suspension in late February with only $50m of food aid being disbursed following Sudan 's developing relations with Libya . |
| 27 | Sales of the 20 US models imported — from a total US range of 125 — are expected to reach just over 20,000 this year , rising to 30,000 in 1991 , and reaching 50,000 by 1994 , half the levels first forecast . |
| 28 | So expect around £6000 for the most basic 1-litre car rising to around £9000 for a GT model . |
| 29 | The cheapest electric Broaster costs about £3,750 , with prices rising to £6,150 . |
| 30 | The 1927 Cinematograph Act imposed a distributors quota of 7.5 per cent , and an exhibitors quota of five per cent , both rising to 20 per cent , but it did nothing in itself to shift the economic balance in favour of British producers . |