Example sentences of "is increasing [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rate is increasing with time ( 1 in 900 in the UK in 1903 against 1 in 400 in 1973 ) ; but this may be an artefact of more accurate recording of the cause of death — before the arrival of modern terminal care , people usually died of pneumonia . |
| 2 | How quickly the speed is increasing as time goes on . |
| 3 | On the evidence of his recital he is increasing in assurance and beginning to fulfil expectations . |
| 4 | There are several reasons why computer mapping is increasing in popularity . |
| 5 | Much the same line of thinking is prompted by post-goal celebrations , which , unless imagination is beginning to run riot , is increasing in complexity by the week . |
| 6 | the population is increasing in size ( section C ) ; |
| 7 | Year by year the reserve is increasing in size and more sand and silt is washed in . |
| 8 | Reputation is increasing in M to represent the assumption that the larger the fraction of the sector unionized , the higher the individual 's reputation within the group from conforming to the custom . |
| 9 | Proficiency is increasing in contract work and staff have specialist knowledge of such one off tasks . |
| 10 | ( That is , which is increasing in power and influence ? ) |
| 11 | However , in new firms , or in firms in which there is not an established union , the union may not form unless it can provide an excludable good or agency service that is increasing in membership . |
| 12 | Any private union good or service whose level is increasing in membership generates similar predictions . |
| 13 | Although the private good is assumed to be reputation from complying with an established custom of membership , it could also be regarded as any other form of excludable union benefit that is increasing in membership . |
| 14 | But do n't matter what it is everything is increasing in speed . |
| 15 | If and , the coefficient of variation is increasing in var , the effect depends on the relative coefficients of variation in N and Β , allowing for the serial correlation factor in the former case . |
| 16 | The number of visitors is increasing from year to year but at the peak of the holiday season this is causing more congestion and overuse of the landscape . |