Example sentences of "[verb] been growing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political pressure has been growing for the Queen to pay . |
| 2 | Her salary has been growing to the point where she feels she can afford to buy a home and it promises to climb much further over the next few years . |
| 3 | Over the past fifteen years concern has been growing over the environmental effects and social costs of ‘ acid rain' . |
| 4 | The buzzard population in the province has been growing over the last few years and is believed to currently stand at 650 . |
| 5 | Although doubts may have been growing about the Woodvilles ' ultimate intentions , there are no signs that anyone else was contemplating direct action against them — or that the family had yet done anything to warrant it . |
| 6 | Although doubts may have been growing about the Woodvilles ' ultimate intentions , there are no signs that anyone else was contemplating direct action against them — or that the family had yet done anything to warrant it . |
| 7 | Tension would then have been growing by the hour , and it must have been hard indeed for the men to keep themselves from being overstressed by apprehension and excitement . |
| 8 | ‘ Democracy Wall ’ soon became a popular venue for those with grievances and a focus for the dissent that had been growing under the surface for years . |
| 9 | Disillusionment with the ‘ big ’ government philosophy of the New Deal and the Great Society had been growing during the 1970s — even Carter had been fairly conservative in domestic policy . |
| 10 | European overlordship , however , was to prove incompatible with the notions of Arab nationalism that had been growing since the end of the nineteenth century ; and it was no surprise that this would become apparent first in the most advanced country in the region , Egypt . |
| 11 | Trade unions had been growing throughout the nineteenth century but they were still without those distinctive legal privileges which they acquired in 1906 . |
| 12 | As his sword went back for his final sweep the sullen glow that had been growing in the doorway of the Broken Drum flickered , dimmed , and erupted into a roaring fireball that sent the walls billowing outward and carried the roof a hundred feet into the air before bursting through it , in a gout of red-hot tiles . |
| 13 | Unrest had been growing in the Transylvanian region ever since December 1989 when the new National Salvation Front ( NSF ) government had reached an agreement with the Hungarian government to restore ethnic and cultural rights denied to the Hungarian community of 2,000,000 people by the former regime of Nicolae Ceausescu . |
| 14 | Those biomek filaments have been growing into the tank , you know . |