Example sentences of "been a growing [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While extensive tracts of virgin forest remain from which sawnwood and plywood are derived , there has been a growing trend since the Second World War towards fibre-based products from plantations and second- and third-growth forests . |
| 2 | This ‘ twin-track strategy ’ , as government ministers have taken to calling it , has been a growing trend in the English penal system for as considerable time now , and is one major theme of the Criminal Justice Act of 1991 ( along with ‘ just deserts ’ ) . |
| 3 | However , as the use of computers has spread rapidly to large sectors of work and business , there has been a growing trend to encourage the use of computers in schools across the curriculum . |
| 4 | At a more popular level , CEPRA has organised occasional radio production workshops for community groups and trades unions , but there has been a growing awareness of the need for more structured , in-depth training schemes . |
| 5 | Throughout the year there has been a growing realisation that Scotland 's future economic prospects will be influenced to a substantial degree by the economic and political realignment which is taking place in Continental Europe . |
| 6 | Over recent years there has been a growing realization that the development of communicative competence is crucially a methodological matter , but we also need a rationale in support of such a shift of focus . |
| 7 | In return , there has been a growing incidence of sectarian attacks from the loyalist paramilitaries . |
| 8 | Although many firms do continue to diversify , there has been a growing mood against conglomerates and away from the notion that diversification was an automatic virtue and an inescapable trend , views which were accepted by most people in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 9 | Even before the outbreak of the Romanian revolution , there had been a growing scandal about Elena 's academic acceptability . |
| 10 | Reimers said : ‘ In university laboratories there has been a growing concern that desire for proprietary know-how or rights may stifle the open communication of scientists , particularly between scientists who have involvement with different companies ’ . |
| 11 | One encouraging feature of period-instrument performances in recent decades has been a growing concern with reliable and authoritative editions . |
| 12 | In recent years , however , there has been a growing tendency to question the assumption that , prior to the advent of Christianity , Israel was unique among the nations of antiquity in the significance it attached to history and the non-repeatability of events . |
| 13 | Within the psychological literature there has been a growing tendency away from strong interactions towards weak interactions . |
| 14 | In the 1970s it was recognised that for decades there had been a growing imbalance between the consumer and the supplier or manufacturer . |
| 15 | Although there has been a growing amount of evidence that rewarding good behaviour can be far more effective in maintaining pupil discipline than punishing bad behaviour , and despite official encouragement for rewarding , there has been found to be ‘ a continuing emphasis ’ on punishments . |
| 16 | During recent years there has been a growing debate over the merits of the two principle architectures for computer design , CISCs ( complex instruction set computers ) and RISCs ( reduced instruction set computers ) . |
| 17 | Throughout the nineteenth century in most industrialised nations there had been a growing need for governments to obtain reliable knowledge about the state of their societies . |
| 18 | These fields , in which there has been a growing attempt to eradicate sex inequality , still show the persistence of women 's domestic commitments as a barrier to equality . |
| 19 | First , there has been a growing number of prosecutions in recent years for injuries resulting from organized matches of Association and Rugby football . |
| 20 | What was more , there had been a growing number of mice in her house of late and she put it down to the age of the animal . |
| 21 | Although the majority of MPhils and PhDs awarded ( over 6,000 in total ) have been in the areas of science and technology there has been a growing number of registrations and conferments in the social sciences . |
| 22 | NEW Circus — the mixture of traditional skill matched to modern theatrical interpretation — has been a growing world movement since the beginning of the Eighties . |
| 23 | There seems to me to have been a growing wish to find this ‘ philosopher 's stone ’ , a universal system which can be applied to everything , everywhere . |
| 24 | After the mid-1970s , however , there has been a growing surge of interest . |
| 25 | But from the early 1980s there has been a growing feeling that policy and practice were beginning to diverge . |
| 26 | There has also been a growing recognition that MPs need help to enable them to carry out their duties effectively . |
| 27 | At the same time there has been a growing recognition of the fact that development may take different courses , and be directed to different ends , in diverse cultural and political contexts . |
| 28 | But , since the days of the Chicago School , there has been a growing divergence between sociology ( including urban sociology ) on the one hand , and psychology and biology on the other . |
| 29 | With respect to the Anns test , there has been a growing reluctance to apply it , and , as noted above , recent cases have cast doubt on its validity . |
| 30 | Although insignificant on the map , it has long been a magnet drawing folk from the Dales on repeated visits ; latterly there has been a growing influx of tourists and walkers from outside the county to see the magnificent waterfall of Hardraw Force . |