Example sentences of "[been] [art] [adj] increase " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps their most important contribution for Sussex birds in recent years has been the vast increase in the provision of food at bird-tables and feeding stations . |
| 2 | One of the most significant recent developments in the criminal justice system in England and Wales has been the vast increase in the proportion of defendants legally advised and represented in the courts . |
| 3 | One positive feature of this transfer of world liquidity to the oil exporting countries has been the corresponding increase in demand for the world 's products by these countries . |
| 4 | A notable feature of this policy has been the rapid increase in the number of industrial and agricultural banks and finance corporations during the past two decades . |
| 5 | An important side-effect of both these objectives has been the significant increase in the numbers caught in the dependency culture of means-tested assistance . |
| 6 | ‘ Most significant has been the continuing increase in the number of long-term unemployed and the slump in business optimism . |
| 7 | The biggest influence on this behaviour has probably been the large increase in wealth , which in turn boils down to the sharp rise in house prices . |
| 8 | A major change in the 1980s has been the huge increase in both the choice of lenders and the range of products . |
| 9 | One of the major features of the growth of our education system over the last thirty-five years has been the enormous increase in provision of higher education . |
| 10 | In Tanzania in the early 1980s , 90 per cent of agricultural production in the resettled villages was still geared to subsistence consumption and there had been no long-term increase in the productivity of the farmers involved . |
| 11 | At most libraries student numbers have increased but there has been no corresponding increase in the number of librarians . |
| 12 | Despite this reassuring message from history that disruptive behaviour is not an event peculiar to contemporary education and recent evidence that there has been no dramatic increase in such behaviour , it has to be acknowledged that anxiety about disruptive behaviour has increased . |
| 13 | It took the view that ‘ there has been no significant increase in recent times in the level of psychological maturity of girls under 16 and that [ these girls ] face greater problems today than their mothers did at their age . ’ ; |
| 14 | And yet quite clearly there have been no significant increases in the productivity of Chinese agriculture and certainly no large scale industrialization . |
| 15 | The study concluded that there has been no reported increase in any radiation-related illnesses , such as leukaemia , birth defects or thyroid cancer , in the villages surrounding the reactor , although it suggested that incidence of thyroid cancer might increase over the next five to ten years . |
| 16 | There has been no proportionate increase in consultant numbers despite Higginson 's work showing the benefits of this approach . |
| 17 | There has been a substantial increase in coverage of the Chamber and of committees in regional broadcasting ; some regions , BBC and ITV , have generated good week-end reviews which give more time to back-bench MPs . |
| 18 | Second , there has been a substantial increase in the ownership of agricultural land by large institutions , especially financial institutions from the City of London . |
| 19 | There has been a substantial increase in self-employment during that period . |
| 20 | There has been a substantial increase in the number of child psychiatrists , a great increase in clinical psychologists and an increase in child psychiatric nurses . |
| 21 | The result has been a substantial increase in homelessness and deprivation . |
| 22 | As I have said , there has been a substantial increase in the number of pensioners , but surely new technology and the availability of volunteers could enable more people to stay at home for longer . |
| 23 | In recent years there has been a great increase in the use of active compounds . |
| 24 | Within the marine environment itself some palaeontologists believe that the overall richness of the marine fauna was established early on , say by the Silurian period , and that there has not been a great increase in the total number of species living in the sea at any one time since then , although of course the kinds of organisms inhabiting the sea have changed many times . |
| 25 | Since about 1960 there has been a great increase in our knowledge of Maya history . |
| 26 | With greater individual involvement , there has also been a great increase in the number of links with universities and other outside research centres . |
| 27 | There has been a consistent increase in the number of well qualified applicants of about 30% to the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine , and we are able to admit only one in 18 applicants . |
| 28 | The regular CBI surveys and the regular Department of Employment labour force survey show that over the 1980s — this is the answer to the hon. Member for Newport , East ( Mr. Hughes ) — there has been a consistent increase in employers ' commitment to training , even in this current recession . |
| 29 | Furthermore , there has been a vast increase in the range of behaviour that has come under the control of the law . |
| 30 | As for volunteering generally , the hon. Gentleman will know that there has been a vast increase in volunteering in the whole range of voluntary services in the last decade . |