Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] increasing [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mikhail Gorbachev has been under increasing pressure at home , especially in the Soviet army , to salvage what he can of the old Soviet-Iraqi friendship . |
| 2 | This incentive , combined with a period of cost containment in which public hospital funding from state and federal governments has been under increasing pressure , has created even more of a temptation to attract privately funded patients in preference to patients solely supported by public funds . |
| 3 | Since 1979 , local government has been under increasing pressure to consider ways in which the private sector could run services previously provided by the public sector . |
| 4 | As these activities became more intense a greater demand would have been placed on those who made it possible , the food-producers , who would have been under increasing pressure to maximise output . |
| 5 | Even his own notorious plant , which had consistently gone downhill for ten years under his active leadership , had been steadily increasing efficiency and output for several weeks without interruption . |
| 6 | Djohar had been under increasing pressure from opposition groups as well as from the IMF and the World Bank to dismiss Mchangama after he was implicated in a financial scandal [ see p. 38902 ] . |
| 7 | With the exponential explosion of human populations in the last hundred years the natural resources on which such societies traditionally depended have been under increasing pressure both from the indigenous people and from foreigners who had little thought or concern for practising sustainable harvesting . |
| 8 | It was an immense show of faith by the Forest board who have been under increasing pressure from rebels , supporters and shareholders alike , who are seeking a change of manager after a disastrous start to the season . |
| 9 | Editor , — In recent months dermatologists have been under increasing pressure from fundholding general practitioners to conduct clinics in the community . |