Example sentences of "increase in [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table IV shows the range of increases in intraoesophageal body pressure from the common cavity episodes . |
| 2 | Paris : The CAC-40 index climbed 9.37 points to 1,918.41 in a robust response to increases in European interest rates . |
| 3 | Big brewers traditionally stagger rises , introducing increases in certain trading areas and certain types of pubs first , such as their tenanted estate before managed pubs . |
| 4 | Following the increase for the eldest eligible child last April , we have made a further increase for all children in October , with corresponding increases in income-related benefit rates to make sure that the less well-off families also gained to the same extent . |
| 5 | Perhaps misguidedly , this increasing interest in the corporate structure is linked also to the problems of a more litigation-conscious public and dramatic increases in professional indemnity insurance premiums . |
| 6 | Tax increases were avoided but spending on a wide variety of government programmes was frozen or limited ; one of the most controversial aspects of the budget was the plan to place a two-year freeze on increases in federal transfer payments to provinces for health care and secondary education programmes . |
| 7 | There have , for example , been slight increases in average family size and in the average age at marriage . |
| 8 | The above average increases in 20–45 year olds and college-educated residents were evident in Allegheny West , Central North Side and Manchester , whilst East Allegheny experienced the latter . |
| 9 | Conservatives will be embarrassed and will find it difficult to defend increases in civil service salaries . |
| 10 | Michel announced increases in civil service salaries and in the minimum wage level . |
| 11 | There were to be increases in civil service wages and in minimum salary levels . |
| 12 | Furthermore , this downward transport is likely to limit Arctic ozone destruction despite the increases in stratospheric chlorine amounts anticipated from estimates of chlorofluorocarbon release . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Lord Howe said increases in basic rate income tax were not unthinkable . |
| 15 | Increases in public sector pay settlements in the coming year will be restricted to a maximum of 1 1/2 % . |
| 16 | Then there are the moves to buy up empty properties and for temporary increases in local authority investment . |
| 17 | In 1989 Syria had recorded its first trade surplus in 30 years , largely reflecting substantial increases in crude oil production since the mid-1980s . |
| 18 | The decision will bring more criticism of the public transport policies being adopted by Mr Cecil Parkinson , the Transport Secretary , who was under fire this week for forcing substantial increases in British Rail fares into the 1990s . |
| 19 | Nonetheless the resurgence of anti-American feeling within sections of the Labour party — feeling which had been broadly silenced by Soviet moves from 1948 — persisted , and it was further stimulated by the sharp increases in British defence spending and the damaging effects these had upon the government 's domestic programme . |
| 20 | He also outlined offsetting increases in National Insurance contributions , a freezing of tax allowances in 1993/4 and savings from a tightening of the regulations surrounding the married couple 's tax allowance . |
| 21 | NATO Defence Ministers attended a meeting in Brussels of the Defence Planning Committee on May 22-23 and formally abandoned their 13-year-old target of 3 per cent real annual increases in national defence budgets [ see p. 36750 ] . |
| 22 | ( 1983 ) reveal that of those European Air Chemistry Network stations showing a significant trend of increasing annual average precipitation acidity , this was primarily due to an increased number of intermittent high-acidity episodes rather than a substantial increase in general precipitation acidity . |
| 23 | My letter was ignored , yet an article ( between 7th and 10th October 1989 ) said that there was a sudden alarming increase in heterosexual youth AIDS cases in the States ! |
| 24 | Assuming no overall change in the CAA 's activities , no cross-subsidy , and a policy of full cost recovery of actual work done , we estimate that the additional cost to our sector of the industry would mean an increase in all AOC charges and C o A charges of more than 1,000 per cent — clearly a preposterous situation which would effectively kill off our AOC sector even if the increase was spread over a number of years , and would thus be self-defeating since it would leave the airlines to pay more of the CAA 's overheads than they do now . |
| 25 | Because an increase in poleward heat flow cools the tropics while heating the poles , such heat flow could by itself lower planetary albedo . |
| 26 | Any decline in water loss might also be partly offset by the resulting increase in atmospheric water vapour pressure deficit . |
| 27 | Thus , for example , a global increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration , through the ‘ greenhouse effect ’ , may be warming the lower atmosphere but cooling the stratosphere , thereby shifting the equilibrium of stratospheric photochemistry in favour of ozone production ( Groves and Tuck , 1979 ) . |
| 28 | It can be argued that they also produce an increase in civil service patronage in that senior civil servants generally advise ministers about the appointments , and quite often important chairmanships are awarded to recently retired civil servants . |
| 29 | This was probably due to the stimulation of mucosal defence mechanisms and to the increase in mucosal blood flow that has been recognised previously and attributed recently to the formation of nitric oxide , a potent locally acting vasorelaxing factor . |
| 30 | The improvements include an increase in modern Supersprinter trains and more trains from Newcastle , Sunderland and Teesside to the MetroCentre . |