Example sentences of "[adj] growth [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are odd , feathery growths around this black stone , which look rather like clusters of iron filings drawn to a magnet . |
| 2 | The consequences of unrestricted outward growth of cities were stark to the observers of the late 1930s . |
| 3 | Additional benefits of tree-lined streams , in reducing the effects of nitrates and phosphates in the water and in shading out the choking growth of summer weed in a river bed , which may otherwise necessitate further expensive dredging , have been recognized by Dutch and German scientists for over a decade . |
| 4 | In Italy , also , although industry agreements are still important , there has been a marked growth since the 1960s of decentralised bargaining at plant and company level , in contrast to the previously highly centralised system . |
| 5 | The marked growth of white collar employment in the period offered respectable , if not always highly-paid or secure , work to males and to unmarried women , generally to those from skilled manual working-class families . |
| 6 | In Tomlinson 's argument , this discrepancy between the marked growth of the dominant enterprises and the relatively static overall position as regards plant size is taken as throwing doubt on the notion that the growth of the dominant enterprises has been based on the exploitation of economies of scale . |
| 7 | This was after all a period of full employment and marked growth in people 's real earnings . |
| 8 | This has led to a marked growth in active recreation . |
| 9 | During the period of the Conservative government there has been a marked growth in pay inequality . |
| 10 | The 1850s and 1860s saw , however , a marked growth in parliamentary interest and influence . |
| 11 | On the other side , the spontaneous growth of a disability culture , in the absence of support from organisations of disabled people , can be regarded as a symptom of ordinary disabled people losing interest in the issues that an elite leadership regards as a priority . |
| 12 | This category of plan probably represents the outcome of a cumulative and spontaneous growth of internal streets , to meet a whole range of contributory factors including population growth , increasing functional complexity , the availability of resources and the intangible aspect of focal consciousness on the part of the resident community hence its importance as an indicator of increased urban status . |
| 13 | In fact the people 's committees were a genuinely spontaneous growth in which communist agitation was involved only to a minor extent . |
| 14 | From Polanyi 's account of the tacit knowledge with which scientists operate ( they ‘ know more than they can tell ’ ) , through Kuhn 's picture of incommensurable paradigms ( their proponents ‘ practise their trades in a different world ’ ) to Feyerabend 's idea of scientific growth through unbridled Machiavellianism ( ‘ anything goes ’ ) , it has emerged that even science can not live up to its self-congratulatory belief in its own reasonableness . |
| 15 | The aim is to develop a range of policies to develop the positive aspects of this process for scientific growth in potential host countries such as the UK ; and also to minimise the deleterious effects of negative aspects such as those bound up with the current ‘ brain drain' . |
| 16 | A further enhancement is to spread the top growth over a wire umbrella to get the hanging stems well away from the central support . |
| 17 | Cut off the top growth of catmint , but leave the pruning of caryopteris and fuchsias until new growth appears . |
| 18 | The root-stock then has no option : with no or insufficient shoots to take the upthrust , it has to get rid of its energy with top growth of its own . |
| 19 | Soft flabby growth in plants is as much at risk to disease attack and structural collapse as it is with ourselves and other animals . |
| 20 | But the public were warned not to approach Mr Spiro , who had a seven-day growth of beard , if he was spotted . |
| 21 | The president of Prodigy Services Co says the viewdata system is considering a move away from its flat-fee monthly pricing and may start charging by usage for some features , including its bulletin boards : according to Communications Daily , Ross Glatzer said the company 's management is concerned about ‘ rapidly rising telecommunications costs , driven by soaring growth in members ’ use of a handful of features that are most expensive for Prodigy to provide — stock quotes and company news , bulletin boards and airline schedules ; ’ Glatzer said details still are being worked out , but ‘ it 's become clear we must introduce some timed charges for some features in the second half of this year , ’ adding that the problem is one of trying to use flat-rate pricing for some features for which others charge $6 to $18 an hour . |
| 22 | Cuts produced slower incremental growth in some parts of the budget and major shifts in others . |
| 23 | Survival dictates that the bureaucrat keeps his subordinates happy with greater opportunities for promotion and other benefits from an enlarged budget , and his superiors satisfied with his performance as measured by the forceful promotion of incremental growth in the bureau 's spending plans . |
| 24 | The early theories of bureaucracy associated with Tullock and Niskanen have been severely criticized as culture-bound and of declining relevance as governments move beyond periods of high levels of public expenditure and taxation , and inexorable incremental growth in public budgets . |
| 25 | Severity of gastrointestinal symptoms was the major factor influencing linear growth during the first two years . |
| 26 | The poorer prognosis for linear growth among boys who develop Crohn 's disease before puberty has not been previously reported . |
| 27 | We evaluated children with Crohn 's disease presenting before or during early puberty and analysed the variation in their subsequent linear growth in relation to anatomical distribution of disease , severity of gastrointestinal symptoms , sex , and therapeutic interventions . |
| 28 | Several prospective studies have shown improvement in linear growth in individual children with nutritional restitution . |
| 29 | They moved stealthily , the switches in their hands grasped like weapons through the rank smell of wild rhubarb and down towards the damp growth by the stream . |
| 30 | Even if the North Sea oil bonus is stripped out , the firm expects Scottish growth of 1.4 per cent after a fall of 1.3 per cent in non-oil output between 1991 and 1992 . |