Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] increase " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This was achieved after a similar increase in 1991 , and we are seeking a further improvement in 1993 . |
| 2 | The concern comes after a reported increase in deaths of diabetic patients , most relying on genetically engineered human insulin . |
| 3 | The blockages are largely independent of elongation time , since only minor changes of the blocked transcripts are apparent after a 15-fold increase of elongation time ( i.e. 15 min compared to 1 min ) for transcription from either promoter . |
| 4 | Cancer incidence did not rise in the clinic after a large increase in prescriptions for atenolol after 1976 . |
| 5 | However , this change has been brought about almost entirely by the increase in the long-term unemployed rather than an increase in the living standards of older people in the lowest income groups ; it is not the result of a vast increase in the incomes of older people . |
| 6 | That in spite of a vast increase of staff — and manual staff — they are still not manning the services efficiently or even satisfactorily . |
| 7 | The pensions controversy began on Jan. 7 when Congress , recalled from its summer break , upheld a Supreme Court ruling in favour of a 1992 increase in pensions of 147 per cent ( instead of the government 's 54 ) . |
| 8 | Helicobacter pylori related hypergastrinaemia is the result of a selective increase in gastrin 17 |
| 9 | However , there is evidence of a slight increase in teenage pregnancy rate in 1981 in England and Wales for all ages between fourteen and nineteen compared to the previous year , with a consequent rise in the numbers of girls who had babies and who had abortions . |
| 10 | The modest American goal of a threefold increase in capacity recognises this fact . |
| 11 | Er we , this budget actually includes about three quarters of a million increase in d in expenditure on day care . |
| 12 | MANY City stockbrokers , advertising agencies and banking houses are paying substantial bonuses to their high-earning staff to beat the effects of a substantial increase in taxes in the wake of a possible Labour victory on April 9 . |
| 13 | And there is strong historical evidence of a substantial increase in the scale of economic activities being an essential element in the development of modern economies and that an increasing government role is inherently a part of the process . |
| 14 | Does it not presuppose man 's progress from primitive to sophisticated ways of life , and does it not suggest on the basis of a progressive increase of ahi sā a movement from a less good to a better form of life ? |
| 15 | Thus it rejected Owen 's bid , revolutionary in concept but illusory in fact , to appropriate all industry into a nationwide industrial democracy : and , by that rejection , but quite unaware that it had done so , left unimpeded the second stage of the Industrial Revolution , the stage that guaranteed that it too would be irreversible , that the continuance of a phenomenal increase in the production of wealth could occur . |
| 16 | Not only does the increase of 6 per cent in the science budget fall short of a general increase in spending of 9 per cent and an inflation rate of 10 per cent , but four-fifths of the additional $ 13 million will be allocated to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research ( CSIR ) , which carries out in-house research on applied science and technology . |
| 17 | A new fractiousness between authorities , together with an indication of a sharp increase in the politicization of local government , diminished the standing of British local government , and many of its services suffered . |
| 18 | Top public sector earners such as judges , senior officials and forces top brass will get a 2.9 per cent rise but only because it was negotiated last year as part of a phased increase for 1992 . |
| 19 | Deputy co-ordinator John Hinchcliffe told Middlesbrough Victim Support 's annual meeting that it was part of a wider increase in the group 's work . |
| 20 | The very young Aplysia has a nervous system consisting of relatively few neurons , while the period of onset of the capacity to show sensitization as a behavioural phenomenon matches that of a great increase in neuronal number ; yet if all that sensitization required was the facilitatory response in a set of three neurons of the network described earlier , it is hard to see why , by contrast with habituation , it should be dependent on such an increase in neuronal number . |
| 21 | N face of a massive increase in imports of urea from the Eastern bloc in 1986 , the UK and the European Community ( EC ) fertilizer industries complained of unfair competition to the EC Commission . |
| 22 | Secondly the changeover would require such vast investment in new manufacturing and refuelling infrastructure that the incentive of a huge increase in fuel costs for IC vehicles would be necessary to render the switch economically viable . |
| 23 | Sterling slipped marginally yesterday in advance of a widely-expected increase in West German interest rates tomorrow , writes Peter Torday . |
| 24 | But then it was successful in bringing inflation under control , but achieved that at the expense of a rapid increase in unemployment . |
| 25 | The South African budget for this year gives university researchers less than they need to keep pace with inflation and allocates most of the additional spending on science to applied work in government laboratories , dashing hopes of a significant increase in university funding . |
| 26 | There 's no er evidence of a significant increase in the peasants ' standard of living quite the reverse in this period . |
| 27 | SIR — Falkowski and Wilson elegantly demonstrate that historical Secchi disk measurements show no evidence of a significant increase in North Pacific phytoplankton biomass in this century . |
| 28 | More recently Hill and Owen , unable to show their previous findings of a significant increase in faecal bile acid excretion , have proposed instead that the ratio of lithocholic acid : deoxycholic acid and lithocholic acid : deoxycholic acid×total faecal bile acid concentration may be important markers in patients with colorectal cancer . |
| 29 | There was great scope we saw for matching marketing , the due diligence product outside er Manchester area er that has been particularly successful we are going to have , well all of you are probably aware of of a significant increase in the in the of due dili due diligence work er very encouraging that er most of it I think I 'm right in saying has come , certainly the bigger ones have come from out with the region er and have been introduced to us from bankers er in London , er initially we 've had er a lot of support from our er colleagues in London who 've effected the introductions in the first place , precisely how the partnership virtually work . |
| 30 | ‘ Which will just have to remain a necessity , ’ she advised him tightly , conscious of a sudden increase in the perpetual tension between them . |