Example sentences of "[pron] have been [art] [adj] increase " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years there has been a great increase in the use of active compounds . |
| 2 | Since about 1960 there has been a great increase in our knowledge of Maya history . |
| 3 | Furthermore , there has been a vast increase in the range of behaviour that has come under the control of the law . |
| 4 | As for volunteering generally , the hon. Gentleman will know that there has been a vast increase in volunteering in the whole range of voluntary services in the last decade . |
| 5 | Council staff say that although there has been a general increase in nonpayment in the region most non-payers are on the electoral roll . |
| 6 | As Table 9 shows , most of this expansion occurred in the private sector , where there has been a threefold increase since 1980 . |
| 7 | There has been a recent increase in requests for such support with cases where the need for confidentiality may conflict with legal responsibilities or with the adviser 's desire to protect a weaker third party . |
| 8 | It is clear from the analysis of both statistical sources and from the questionnaire that although there has been a steady decline in larger manufacturing organisations , there has been a corresponding increase in much smaller manufacturing companies . |
| 9 | There has been a similar increase in the proportion of families headed by a never-married mother over the period ( 77% ) , arising from a growth in the proportion of births outside marriage as well as the growing trend for single mothers to bring up children by themselves . |
| 10 | Second , there has been a definite increase in the proportion of older children admitted into care , and a decrease , although less marked , in the number of very young children admitted . |
| 11 | I mean , what we 're talking about is that throughout the whole of the world , there has been a tremendous increase in crime , whether it be in Britain , in France , in Germany or wherever . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , in the last 20 years there has been a sharp increase in the production and sale of smokeless tobacco in some developed countries . |
| 13 | This has certainly been the case in Liverpool , where truancy prosecutions and care proceedings per annum fell by 40 per cent between 1981 and 1987 — although there has been a slight increase over the past couple of years . |
| 14 | During the 1980s , there has been a slight increase in the percentages of young people over 16 staying on at school , as Figure 11.2 shows ( see also Chapter 5 , Figure 5.19 and Chapter 12 , Figure 12.5 ) . |
| 15 | There has been a slight increase recently due to the depression in house prices and , to a limited extent , to the 1988 legislation . |
| 16 | There has been a fascinating increase of interest over the last year by general practitioners in the use of defibrillators . |
| 17 | There has been a substantial increase in coverage of the Chamber and of committees in regional broadcasting ; some regions , BBC and ITV , have generated good week-end reviews which give more time to back-bench MPs . |
| 18 | Second , there has been a substantial increase in the ownership of agricultural land by large institutions , especially financial institutions from the City of London . |
| 19 | There has been a substantial increase in self-employment during that period . |
| 20 | There has been a substantial increase in the number of child psychiatrists , a great increase in clinical psychologists and an increase in child psychiatric nurses . |
| 21 | As I have said , there has been a substantial increase in the number of pensioners , but surely new technology and the availability of volunteers could enable more people to stay at home for longer . |
| 22 | There has been a major increase over the last year in the number of disqualification proceedings taken out against directors , according to the Insolvency Service . |
| 23 | There has been a consistent increase in the number of well qualified applicants of about 30% to the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine , and we are able to admit only one in 18 applicants . |
| 24 | The regular CBI surveys and the regular Department of Employment labour force survey show that over the 1980s — this is the answer to the hon. Member for Newport , East ( Mr. Hughes ) — there has been a consistent increase in employers ' commitment to training , even in this current recession . |
| 25 | There has been a huge increase in ‘ healthy eating ’ , with 5m Britons currently declining to eat red meat . |
| 26 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 27 | Since 1973 there has been a steady increase in electoral support for the Conservative party which dominated centre-right coalition governments in the early 1980s . |
| 28 | Ciba-Geigy runs company management courses and in recent years there has been a steady increase in the number of women in these courses . |
| 29 | By 1972 , that figure had doubled to over 120,000 offences and since then there has been a steady increase . |
| 30 | There has been a steady increase in illegitimacy in the 1980s accompanied by a rise in unmarried parents ' applications to court for maintenance , custody and access . |