Example sentences of "[been] [verb] by a [adj] increase " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This tendency has been exaggerated by a steady increase in the number of art journalists , while true critics , the sort of committed people who , twenty years ago , were instrumental in influencing public tastes , are in decline ’ . |
| 2 | It has been paralleled by a similar increase in Langstone Harbour in Hampshire , which is only separated from Chichester Harbour by Hayling Island ; in fact , the two harbours join at the north end of Hayling . |
| 3 | The difference arises because the expected reduction in research income , a trend affecting many universities as a result of a move towards greater selectivity , has not been matched by a corresponding increase in teaching funding . |
| 4 | Rather , increased productivity followed from increasing economic specialization which , in turn , had been produced by a massive increase in the ‘ density ’ of society . |
| 5 | One of the most unambiguous demonstrations of this comes from New Guinea where the virtual abolition of tribal warfare achieved by relatively recent European rule has been accompanied by a marked increase in the incidence of sorcery accusations . |
| 6 | A village which has been hit by a big increase in crime has become the first in Britain to install video cameras on its roads . |
| 7 | On this point THE HOME SECRETARY said that there was no reliable evidence that the abolition of the death penalty in foreign countries had been followed by a significant increase in the number of murders . |