Example sentences of "a increase [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Commission does not think that we should expect an increase of prices … |
| 2 | where there is an increase of residents ; |
| 3 | The cost of running this office and the employment of staff , inevitably generating an increase of activities , led tile BDA during this period to overreach itself financially . |
| 4 | Conference , this particular motion calls for an increase of members required to form a branch or be allowed to continue as a branch should it lose members . |
| 5 | It found an increase of symptoms of sewage pollution among the 455 children who had swum in the sea . |
| 6 | The only gleam of hope the Prime Minister could offer was that the Cabinet had on the previous day agreed to ask the Bank of England whether an increase of cuts from 56 million to 76 million , including a ten per cent cut in unemployment benefits , would be enough to ensure an American loan . |
| 7 | This would then lead to an increase of oxides of nitrogen in the stratosphere which , through chemical reactions , would deplete ozone . |
| 8 | MANWEB last night admitted that a 17.4pc jump in profits would not be enough to cushion customers from an increase in bills when VAT is imposed on fuel . |
| 9 | MANWEB last night admitted that a 17.4pc jump in profits would not be enough to cushion customers from an increase in bills when VAT is imposed on fuel . |
| 10 | In children too there seems to be an increase in problems relating to antisocial , aggressive conduct and delinquent acts . |
| 11 | But legislation in 1987–88 has also brought an increase in moves towards more explicit privatization by making competitive tendering compulsory for a wider range of activities , including refuse collection , street cleaning and vehicle maintenance . |
| 12 | An increase in earnings will lead to a reduction in both benefit and child support and so lone mothers will tend to be trapped at a low level of income . |
| 13 | The low-paid worker in the ‘ poverty trap ’ may gain nothing , or even lose , from an increase in earnings , when these cause benefits to be lost and tax to be paid . |
| 14 | The ABI also requests that , in the circular to shareholders , there should be an undertaking that the authority to buy-in will only be exercised if so to do would result in an increase in earnings per share and is in the best interests of shareholders generally . |
| 15 | Even countries with higher standards of health care , such as Chile , are suffering an increase in diseases such as typhoid and hepatitis . |
| 16 | Mandatory safety checks have been increased , without an increase in resources . |
| 17 | An increase in resources . |
| 18 | The plan calls for government action in six areas : payments for farmers who take measures to manage their land for the benefit of wildlife , landscape and conservation ; an increase in resources for environmentally sensitive farming ; better integration of existing environmental schemes ; the opportunity to enter a voluntary scheme covering the whole of a farm for a five-year or longer period of conservation work ; government pressure on the European Commission to give greater recognition to the potential for production controls and other mechanisms to benefit the environment ; and the introduction of environmental training programmes for farmers . |
| 19 | An increase in women 's numerical representation is therefore given a biological or cultural , rather than an egalitarian , justification . |
| 20 | Far from reducing accidents , however , the lamp led to an increase in explosions and fatalities . |
| 21 | The report 's assumptions are based on one of the " business as usual " scenarios from the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change : a doubling of the world population , an increase in emissions of carbon dioxide by 180 per cent and a global temperature rise of 2.5 degrees centigrade by the end of the next century [ see ED 57 , 59/60 ] . |
| 22 | He announced an increase in Members ' salaries from £400 to £600 . |
| 23 | Can I just reassure Mr that if actually we were not , er , if we were discussing an increase in members allowances then I would be fair square with him . |
| 24 | ‘ One trader has already indicated he has had an increase in takings over the last week . |
| 25 | Chancellor Norman Lamont is expected to announce an increase in charges from nine per cent to 10.4 per cent . |
| 26 | Schools must calculate the ‘ True cost ’ of letting facilities which will probably reflect an increase in charges , but will generally want to have better facilities and community involvement to attract recruitment . |
| 27 | In England during the period between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the Second World War there was an increase in goods and services per person of four-to six-fold at a time when population was increasing six-fold . |
| 28 | Three days later Kohl conceded that " we can not avoid talking about an increase in duties " ( rather than taxes ) and mentioned possible duties on carbon dioxide emissions or motorway tolls . |
| 29 | He demonstrated that a rise in State spending unaccompanied by an increase in taxes would have stimulated the economy towards full employment with the smallest change . |
| 30 | On Monday evening he gave fair warning of an increase in taxes , and spending cuts to reduce the expanding federal budget deficit . |