Example sentences of "has be a steady [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas horizontal mergers , the type most likely to yield production economies of scale , were the vast majority in the 1960s , there has been a steady trend away from horizontal mergers and towards conglomerate mergers more recently . |
| 2 | Since the unification of Vietnam in 1975 under the government of the communist forces of North Vietnam , there has been a steady exodus of Vietnamese . |
| 3 | Since the 1983 Rayner Scrutiny of NHS residential accommodation there has been a steady rationalisation of accommodation provided for DHA employees , and this has added to problems for recruiters , especially in areas where private rented accommodation is expensive and in short supply . |
| 4 | Since then , there has been a steady output of research within this branch of applied linguistics . |
| 5 | In recent years there has been a steady accumulation of evidence that personality and allied affective factors play a crucial role in determining subject choice and student success . |
| 6 | Part of our reaction to that situation has been negative , especially the behaviourist interlude that sought to define out of existence many of the issues that confront us , but for the most part the approach has been a steady accumulation of experimental data in anticipation of the day when meaningful theories could be developed . |
| 7 | Youth Club In the junior section there has been a steady attendance and it has been necessary to set up a waiting list . |
| 8 | Youth Club In the junior section there has been a steady attendance and it has been necessary to set up a waiting list . |
| 9 | Right through the postwar decades there has been a steady flow of labour from the rural to urban areas , from agricultural to non-agricultural occupations . |
| 10 | Since their introduction in 1982 , there has been a steady flow of empirical studies of index arbitrage ; these studies will be considered in this section . |
| 11 | Since 1973 there has been a steady increase in electoral support for the Conservative party which dominated centre-right coalition governments in the early 1980s . |
| 12 | Ciba-Geigy runs company management courses and in recent years there has been a steady increase in the number of women in these courses . |
| 13 | By 1972 , that figure had doubled to over 120,000 offences and since then there has been a steady increase . |
| 14 | There has been a steady increase in illegitimacy in the 1980s accompanied by a rise in unmarried parents ' applications to court for maintenance , custody and access . |
| 15 | And we know that through that period , there has been a steady increase in the number of police officers the county have got , and this county has always up to now , willingly funded those police officers . |
| 16 | There has been a steady rise in the number of women returners and ‘ apart from women who do not want to let go of that career , there are all the millions of women faced with the fact that either their income will enormously increase the lifestyle of their family or without that second income they will be very hard pushed to cover the basics . |
| 17 | As a result , there has been a steady growth in the number of companies that have an audit committee — around two-thirds of the top 150 UK listed industrial companies and the great majority of UK listed financial institutions now have audit committees , and in more than half these cases , the committees were established within the past five years . |
| 18 | However , one of the most significant trends of the last three decades has been a steady growth in the number of women in the labour force . |
| 19 | There has been a steady growth in the newer area of sales to retail outlets , some of which are supermarkets but many of which are traditional grocery shops . |
| 20 | The trends observed by analysis of Table 3 suggest that there has been a steady growth in research on Scottish geology , but that there have been differences in growth rates between universities over the time interval . |
| 21 | In recent years there has been a steady growth in the use of tribunals to deal with legal disputes rather than courts . |
| 22 | Since the programme started there has been a steady refusal rate of 5–6% ( fig 1 ) . |
| 23 | However , Schwarz and Laatsch ( 1991 ) have questioned whether there has been a steady improvement in efficiency , and suggest that efficiency fluctuates over time . |
| 24 | As a result , there has been a steady inflow of contaminated food since July 1986 . |
| 25 | But since then there has been a steady influx of Bengali plainspeople . |
| 26 | In the twentieth century there has been a steady drift of power from assemblies to executives in Western liberal democracies , and this is as true of Britain as of the United States , although to different extents . |
| 27 | Throughout Europe there has been a steady drop in religious attendance since the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | Over the last decade or so , there has been a steady movement towards the establishment of free markets , the reduction of subsidies and the liberalisation of labour markets in China . |
| 29 | And Neil Cross , credit manager of Demmy Betting in Manchester , said yesterday : ‘ There has been a steady weight of money since United lost 1-0 to Wimbledon on October 31 when they were pushed out to 10-1 . |
| 30 | I accept that there has been a steady concentration of power in the hands of large , sophisticated and diversified publishing companies , yet it is still possible for you or me to set up on our own , and publish highly professional and innovative books from our own back bedroom at very little cost . |