Example sentences of "[pron] has [be] a growth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sales of traditional industrial life insurance policies plunged by half , but there has been a growth in endowment policies . |
| 2 | In addition there has been a growth in the promotion of tourism , which with its low pay , seasonal employment , and upwardly spiralling speculative investments , has also brought pressure upon people to leave the land . |
| 3 | At the same time , economic recession has led to sharp increases in unemployment , especially among young black people , and there has been a growth in black migration from impoverished and drought-stricken rural areas since the ending of influx controls in 1986 . |
| 4 | Although their significance as regional political institutions has been undermined — in the case of water authorities by proposals for privatization and in the case of health authorities by a series of financial and managerial initiatives which have encouraged a shift towards private sector ( market-type ) decision-making ( Pollitt , Harrison , Hunter and Marnoch , 1988 ) — there has been a growth in regional state institutions in other policy areas . |
| 5 | But the trend is towards taking the bitterness and confrontation out of divorce , and in the last few years there has been a growth in the number of ‘ mediation ’ and ‘ conciliation ’ ( not to be confused with reconciliation ) services available . |
| 6 | As illustrated in Part I , there has been a growth in occupational pension schemes . |
| 7 | The claims of those commentators ( for example Meager , 1985 ; LRD , 1987 ) who suggest there has been a growth in temporary working in recent years are given no support whatsoever by these results . |
| 8 | Over the past 20 years , there has been a growth in the number of these schools , because many parents have felt that governments have not been providing the quality of education once found in grammar schools , and are willing to forgo expensive holidays and luxuries , in order to provide the education they want for their children . |
| 9 | In recent years there has been a growth in the number of schools introducing ‘ schools-industry ’ work into the curriculum . |
| 10 | There has been a growth in mass marketing because increased standards of living have meant that products which were once luxury goods are now utility goods and required by the bulk of the population , e.g. cars , foreign holidays , televisions and telephones . |
| 11 | However , over recent years there has been a growth in such activity , largely through the medium of television . |