Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the growing [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Union conferences passed motions condemning what they described as the growing use of temporary workers and employers ' strategies of substituting temporary for permanent workers . |
| 2 | These developments stemmed from the growing awareness among political cadres , intellectuals and development workers from 1978 onward that the community under occupation had to learn to take power into its own hands . |
| 3 | The advent of work with apprentices gave a new dimension to the Eastern District 's overall programme : alongside the expansion in trade union provision and the increase in branches and branch membership , they contributed to the growing self-assurance of the District by the later 1950s . |
| 4 | The overseas trade in cloth also contributed to the growing dominance of London , because exports were largely in the hands of the Merchant Adventurers ' Company , which was increasingly dominated by the London Mercers ' Company ( 64 ) . |
| 5 | Peace News reported on the revolt against the ‘ multiversity ’ at the symbol of liberal corporate America , the Berkeley campus within the University of California ; it reported on the growing movement that had sprung out of the deep south civil rights campaign . |
| 6 | Safely back in bed , Mungo concentrated on the growing collection of odd items on his mantelpiece . |
| 7 | Further divisions arose from the growing tension between Great Russian merchants concentrated in the centre of the Empire and those from ethnic minorities — Poles , Jews , Germans , Armenians , Greeks and Tartars — on the periphery . |
| 8 | Rousseau 's dislike of " sectional associations " sprang from what he saw as the growing tendency for people to identify themselves primarily with these associations and their interests rather than with the community as a whole , and so to forget their duties as citizens . |
| 9 | In 1930 the moral majority ( not that it knew itself by that name in those days ) hit back against what it saw as the growing licentiousness and depravity of the movie industry and introduced a production code that all film producers would be required to adhere to . |
| 10 | The new restrictions were thought to derive from the Prime Minister 's concern at what he saw as the growing influence of " exclusivist " religions such as Christianity and Islam . |
| 11 | Albert 's purpose in writing his book , published in the original French two years ago , was to warn a developing European Community against what he saw as the growing dominance of the American way of capitalism . |
| 12 | Kuhn quotes Wolfgang Pauli 's response to what he saw as the growing crisis in physics around 1924 . |
| 13 | The number of departments within each major foreign ministry grew with the growing complexity of the work to be done . |
| 14 | Over the 1960s and 1970s costs of location and general expansion resulted in the growing importance of a belt extending from the South-East along either side of the M4 motorway to Bristol [ Law , 1980 ] . |
| 15 | It was these acts , together with the resistance they provoked , which resulted in the growing specification of the sexual within official discourse and a marked polarization of political positions . |
| 16 | Other forces were at work too , including new attitudes to urban redevelopment after the Ronan Point collapse in 1974 , and the general slowdown in local-authority building that resulted from the growing awareness of the disasters of tower-block living . |
| 17 | For Comte , this evolutionary movement lay in the growing division of labour in society . |
| 18 | Horse-hoeing a field above part of the forest that would soon come down to form an additional hundred acres of pasture for Handley Farm , Seb listened to the growing hubbub . |
| 19 | As many western states simultaneously suffered sharp increases in levels of unemployment and prices , concern grew over the growing costs of government welfare programmes , many of which were linked by statute to changes in price levels . |
| 20 | The conference theme was ‘ From a socialist to a market-oriented society ’ and it looked at the growing opportunities for women within the new social structures . |
| 21 | United Artists were tempted to point out the dangers of Communism and released Red Salute , which dealt with the growing appeal of Communism for student leaders . |
| 22 | The government reacted to the growing concern about population trends by establishing a Population Investigation Committee in the autumn of 1936 and included an examination of family allowances in its terms of reference . |
| 23 | The next Lady Deverill nodded for Rosie to fetch the doll down , which the nursemaid did , while everyone else waited in the growing silence . |
| 24 | All waited in the growing light , their faces and hands silver , the stones grey . |
| 25 | Before they lost office the Conservatives also responded to the growing evidence on the extent of poverty , and the inadequacies of existing measures , by setting up a Royal Commission on the Poor Laws in 1905 . |