Example sentences of "increase [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A simulated conversion of N 2 O 5 to HNO 3 on background aerosols , however , shows column nitric acid to increase between days 55 and 75 in autumn by about 3.0x10 15 molecule cm -2 ( ref. 9 ) .
2 The purpose of this is to increase through rewards and punishments the number of times the child chooses to perform acceptable behaviour and not to perform unacceptable behaviour .
3 Although I have described two applications of lasers in nuclear physics there are many others , and the number continues to increase as laser technology advances .
4 Furthermore , the real difficulty is not only that costs seem to be higher in areas of sparse population , but they are also likely to increase as depopulation occurs .
5 The proportion of any additional income that is saved ( the marginal propensity to save ) will tend to vary according to the tastes and preferences of the individual , and one might expect the proportion that is saved to increase as income increases .
6 The NRA believes that the small numbers of migratory fish which have returned to the Tees in recent years will continue to increase as pollution levels fall .
7 Military involvement is likely to increase as legitimacy decreases .
8 Therefore , if volatility rises as delivery approaches , margins are also required to increase as delivery approaches .
9 Erm , as I 've said before , I have reservations about whether a much increased figure about above the County Council 's er proposal could be accommodated within Ryedale District Council , and I if the figure above that is proposed I would suggest that the extra is accommodated within the new settlement , which I presume the ar argue answer you would have expected from Ryedale , erm Barton Willmore 's figure is based on an assumption that they believe that within Ryedale there is a capacity to increase past building rates , I would refute that , erm the building rates in Southern Ryedale I would suggest were abnormally high , because of the development of Clifton Moor airfield , the North Western part of the Southern Ryedale district , sorry South Western part .
10 Antarctic zooplankton is characterized by an almost complete absence of larvae of benthic animals , and surface layers are rich in individuals but poor in species ; numbers of species tend to increase with depth ( Knox , 1970 ) .
11 The temperature seems to increase with depth , reaching about 1000 K at about 300 km and about 2000 K at about 1000 km .
12 As with most occupational groups males were dominant , although the degree of domination tended to increase with skill level and with the incidence of unskilled labour ( Table 1.5 ) .
13 In pintails only the central tail feathers are elongated , so that although lift again fails to increase with length , tail area and thus drag rise only slowly .
14 Several of them — constipation , confusion , urinary incontinence and difficulty seeing and hearing — have been shown elsewhere to increase with age ( Cartwright , 1990a ) .
15 The narrowing of the arteries which can lead to angina and heart attacks tends to increase with age .
16 The importance attached to family relationships tends to increase with age .
17 If senescence is primarily due to late-acting deleterious mutations , then ( other things being equal ) one would expect the additive genetic variance for survival and fertility to increase with age .
18 Data from South Wales indicate that feelings of loneliness do seem to increase with age and are more common among women as compared with men .
19 However , it is clear that chronic health problems appear to increase with age .
20 This is because the prevalence of dementia seems to increase with age ( see below ) .
21 Although the precise rates vary , there is a clear trend for dementia prevalence to increase with age ( see Figure 5.2 ) .
22 Affective conditions such as depression do not seem to increase with age .
23 There is a clear trend for the number of older people reporting a home visit to increase with age from 18 per cent of those aged 65 — 69 to 62 per cent of those aged 85 + ( Figure 7.11 ) .
24 H pylori infection and seropositivity have been shown to increase with age , although the immunological responses , in general , may be reduced in the elderly .
25 Degree performance in arts and social sciences appears to increase with age , peaks in the 26–30 age group , and subsequently declines .
26 Because he wants the entropy to increase with time , the obvious conclusion would be that the wrong definition of entropy has been chosen and that it should be changed , but he decides instead to change the law of time evolution .
27 Thus disorder will tend to increase with time if the system obeys an initial condition of high order .
28 In this context , it may be relevant that the degree of baryon catastrophe seems to increase with metallicity ( indicating that cooling may be an important factor ) .
29 US revenues for this kind of software is projected to increase from $226m in 1992 to over $2.5b in 1996 .
30 Darlington Transport Company announced last night that the concessionary fare scheme rate is to increase to 10p while the cost for a bus pass is set to increase from £15 to £17.50 later this year .
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