Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] increase in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Italians see many reasons for the sharp increase in numbers . |
| 2 | Furthermore the public expected increased ‘ productivity ’ in return for the substantial increases in salaries achieved in the 1970s by unionised teachers in both the UK and the USA . |
| 3 | So far we have considered reasons for the general increase in local government expenditure over the years . |
| 4 | It seems that the catalogue 's limited subject access could well have reinforced the user 's apparent preference for known-item searching and consequently may also partly account for the apparent increase in known-item searching as the user 's educational level rises . |
| 5 | Welch implies that to account for the apparent increases in zooplankton biomass over the past 30 years in the North Pacific without a marked concomitant increase in phytoplankton biomass ( as reflected by chlorophyll ) , phytoplankton productivity must have increased . |
| 6 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that an enormous number of people in Herefordshire are very grateful for the spectacular increase in knee and hip replacements that has taken place in that health authority 's area during the past 10 years ? |
| 7 | Will my right hon. Friend accept my congratulations and those of my right hon. and hon. Friends for the massive increase in health spending that the Government recently announced , which shows beyond doubt the Government 's commitment to the principles of the national health service ? |
| 8 | Will the Chancellor confirm that the large increase in the public sector borrowing requirement planned for next year will be to pay for the massive increase in unemployment which has been brought about by his own economic incompetence ? |
| 9 | On the other hand it is possible thatsuch a diagnostic suspicion bias accounts for the modest increase in risk among current users but not former users of the pill , although previous work has suggested that this pattern of risk may be due to an accelerating effect of the pill . |
| 10 | The cost of limiting emissions of greenhouse gases has to be borne by those societies which are responsible for the cumulative increase in their concentration levels . |
| 11 | The nature of the retrograde messenger may give clues to the processes responsible for the sustained increase in transmitter release . |
| 12 | Nor was the Treasury convinced by the repeated arguments for the costly increases in police manpower which most Home Secretaries felt they had to secure in order to demonstrate their credibility . |
| 13 | Neither recruitment of cells from adjacent trunk mesenchyme nor oedema are responsible for the observed increase in -AER limb length , because similar results are obtained with cultures of detached limbs , and there is no obvious change in mesenchyme cell density following FGF-4 treatment ( Fig. 2 e , f , and data not shown ) . |
| 14 | If more adequate services are to be made available for the expected increase in the numbers needing them , those of working age will have to pay more in central or local taxes . |
| 15 | So how do we account for the dramatic increase in the average size of the remand population over the same period ? |
| 16 | This is important because it suggests that the courts themselves may well be largely responsible for the dramatic increase in the number ( and proportion ) of triable either way cases coming before the Crown Court in recent years . |
| 17 | The Government alone could not provide the money for the further increase in student numbers it wanted . |
| 18 | If similar figures were applied to man , then clearly an increase of only 43% in liver protein synthesis would not account for the reported increases in whole body protein synthesis . |
| 19 | Is not one reason for the remarkable increase in the number of young people in training — from 6,000 in 1979 to 260,000 today — the fact that we have returned to the common-sense recognition that vocational training is of considerable value and more closely reflects the abilities of many young people ? |
| 20 | Thus each days ' dosage remains homœopathic to the case as the slight increase in the health of the vital force is matched with the slight increase in potency caused by the five or six shakes of the bottle . |
| 21 | For the present it is sufficient to explain the term as the apparent increase in the size of a subject as the illumination intensity increases . |
| 22 | There seems to be a tendency to build up security organizations on the basis of ‘ worst-case ’ arguments ( such as the possible increase in terrorism ) , which leads to serious encroachment on the liberties of citizens and to increasing paranoia . |
| 23 | Doubts were raised at the time about the possible increase in working hours for headteachers in order to operate this system . |
| 24 | Well while we were all delighted about the tremendous increase in income two years ago we were also a little concerned about how we should hold on to it , but we have . |
| 25 | Am I being completely cynical in thinking that the Government 's announcement about the great increase in public expenditure has something to do with a general election ? |
| 26 | Last week listeners were complaining about the supposed increase in American accents on Radio 4 ( ‘ I am sick to the back teeth of hearing these American voices ’ ) . |
| 27 | At the end of the first session of the 97th Congress , Helen Dewar reported in the Washington Post : Even one of Reagan 's severest critics , Tip O'Neill , the former Speaker of the House of Representatives , does not underestimate Reagan 's early achievements : ‘ ( He ) pushed through the greatest increase in defense spending in American history together with the greatest cutbacks in domestic programs and the largest tax cuts the country has ever seen . ’ |
| 28 | The following increases in national income will take place after the initial increase in government expenditure of £100 million : £100 million , £40 million , £16 million , £6.4 million , £2.56 million , and so on . |
| 29 | What the figures do n't show is the effect of the overall increase in labour turnover on standards : it ca n't have been good , and this helps account for some of the loss of business . |
| 30 | It accounted for more than a third of the overall increase in recorded crime this year . |