Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [art] increasing [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GRIST also seems to have worsened what has been an increasing difficulty in arts professional development programmes during the last decade . |
| 2 | In the last few years there has been an increasing realization that many modern production methods are not only very wasteful but probably also unnecessary … |
| 3 | In addition there has been an increasing proportion of companies concerned with distribution , and with larger retail unit operations . |
| 4 | While on the part of the state there has been a continual and almost unlimited welcome for the mining multinationals , there has been an increasing sophistication in the response by communities confronted by them . |
| 5 | There has been an increasing trend also for forestry workers to live in towns and be transported to work so creating further rural depopulation . |
| 6 | In recent years there has been an increasing tendency in some circles to investigate the evolutionary record of fossils in terms of general rules and processes without regard to specific causes operating on specific taxa . |
| 7 | Alternatively , in recent years there has been an increasing tendency to display ‘ art ’ as part of corporate packaging . |
| 8 | In times gone by Dutch cattle were dual-purpose types , as meat was required from the dairy herd as well as milk , but since the early 1970s there has been an increasing use of American Holstein-Friesians in the Netherlands to increase the milk yields of the Dutch Friesian ( which has lower yields than the Holstein type but a higher proportion of solids in the milk ) . |
| 9 | In recent years , as more and more companies adopt American business methods , there has been an increasing use of body language . |
| 10 | Another consequence of the war and economic crisis has been an increasing dependence on external aid . |
| 11 | Since Hubel and Wiesel began publishing their work in the late 1950s , there has been an increasing appreciation of the way in which nervous systems are so structured as to ensure that certain events of special importance to the organism have an increased likelihood of triggering activity in the relevant places . |
| 12 | But the price of home ownership has been an increasing mortgage burden . |
| 13 | During recent years there has been an increasing interest in the use of audio-visual media such as films , video-tapes , tape-slide presentations and audio-tapes for library user education . |
| 14 | In recent years , there has been an increasing interest in how the parents of young mentally handicapped children can foster and encourage their children 's development . |
| 15 | Finally and , since it is presented as a statement of fact , unobjectionably , it records that there ‘ has been an increasing desire among employees to control their working environment and to have a say in decisions which affect their working lives ’ . |
| 16 | Over the last ten years , there has been an increasing interplay between formal economic/econometric work on macroeconomics and the formulation of practical economic policy . |
| 17 | there has been an increasing acceptance that the government has improved the public sector 's own awareness of its stock of unused land which has , in part , been identified through the land register scheme . |
| 18 | There has been an increasing professionalism of industrial relations management in Britain and , as noted by Goodman : |
| 19 | The Soviet Union 's commitment to nuclear power appeared strong during the three years following Chernobyl but since 1989 there has been an increasing number of public demonstrations against nuclear power expansion , especially in the Baltic republics , the Ukraine , Byelorussia and Armenia . |
| 20 | Mr Heseltine commented : ‘ Since the privatisation of BT in 1984 , the telecommunications industry has changed substantially and since the further liberalisation set in train by the Duopoly Review in 1991 , there has been an increasing number of operators entering the market in competition with BT . |
| 21 | The most noticeable feature of the past few decades however , has been the increasing instability of economic life . |
| 22 | One new facet has been the increasing use of heavier bats . |
| 23 | Indeed , a striking feature of post-war economic growth has been the increasing importance of techniques of persuasion : only by stimulating wants and keeping consumers in a state of dissatisfaction is it possible to secure high levels of demand for much of the output of modern industrial economies . |
| 24 | Underlying these trends has been the increasing importance of the state in the management of the economy . |
| 25 | Another , more important reason for the escalating cost of this form of welfare has been the increasing number of people buying their own home . |
| 26 | Another feature of building society expansion in recent years has been the increasing concentration of the industry through merger activity . |
| 27 | There 's been an increasing tendency for people to stay on at school because they really want to , where it was one of the great criticisms of the boom years that people simply stayed on the escalator regardless , did n't think whether they wanted to stay on to , into sixth form , did n't think whether they wanted to go on to university or higher education , erm just did it without thinking . |