Example sentences of "[noun] be on [art] increase " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poisonings are on the increase , with 64,000 cases reported nationally last year . |
| 2 | Owing to the increased employment on war work , trade union membership had in any case been on the increase . |
| 3 | In a country where teenage rape and murder are on the increase , do we really need this salaciousness and is it responsible to show a programme which lingers over the grisly reminiscences of a psychotic serial murderer ? |
| 4 | FITTED bedrooms are on the increase in Northern Ireland homes , though they account so far for only a small proportion of the very large bedroom furniture market . |
| 5 | AND ANOTHER PLEASE : Women drinkers are on the increase |
| 6 | The urban riots of 1981 , the continuing troubles in Northern Ireland , and the headline-making supporters of many football clubs , combine to give the impression that crowd violence is on the increase in contemporary Britain . |
| 7 | They all agree violence is on the increase . |
| 8 | According to a recent RSPCA report , cruelty to animals is on the increase , yet , using one of the privileges of his beloved free society , he condones a form of ritualistic animal abuse merely because it is a ‘ tradition ’ within a tiny percentage of our population . |
| 9 | Indeed , with the rapidity of change in modern Britain , the need for continuing educational opportunities is on the increase for all adults . |
| 10 | STATISTICS show violent crime is on the increase in Scotland , but we have only bald statistics . |
| 11 | It seems probable that , with the loosening of marital and family bonds , adultery is on the increase or at least can be more openly admitted . |
| 12 | It talks of anecdotal evidence in 1991 that the carrying of knives is on the increase among young people and it quotes Detective Chief Superintendent Roger Stoodley , who works in east London , as saying : ’ I have never known so many people to be carrying these weapons . ’ |
| 13 | By the turn of the century , alignment research was on the increase , although it was being carried on by individuals working in isolation from each other . |
| 14 | Both Parties had some 6,000 members in 1934 , but the Communists were on the increase , while the ILP was declining , in financial difficulties and riddled with unofficial groups , two of them directly encouraged by the Communist Party . |
| 15 | I do n't think that clay consumption is on the increase — no more so than some of the other doings in my oddities file , such as eating the Oregon rough-skinned newt ( Journal of the American Medical Association , vol 246 , p 247 ) or performing bilateral orchiectomy ( ie removal of the testes ) on oneself ( JAMA , vol 241 , p 2188 ) . |
| 16 | Since the departure of Miss Harker he had become more surly than before and his drinking was on the increase . |
| 17 | The majority of the inhabitants were still the middling farmers of old , but the number of landless cottagers was on the increase . |
| 18 | It said : ’ Knife attacks are on the increase , with more young men carrying blades. , ’ |
| 19 | Both organisations have encouraged younger women to join them in the eighties and nineties and there is some indication that their membership is on the increase . |
| 20 | It is popularly held that juvenile delinquency is on the increase . |
| 21 | The National Asthma Campaign says that asthma is on the increase — one in 10 primary school children suffers from it . |
| 22 | Indeed , if anything , the incidence of this need is on the increase . |
| 23 | Thus there seems a prima facie risk that social work intervention will increasingly be characterised by recourse to legal justification , and that , regardless of the debate about whether compulsion is on the increase , the public care of children will be further identified with compulsory removal and thus as antipathetic to family care . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , it was feared , children in the cities were running wild like ‘ street arabs ’ ( as one official put it ) , without schooling or the protection of the school medical service ; there were fears that juvenile delinquency was on the increase as a result . |
| 25 | By 1951 rural population was on the increase , a trend that has continued throughout the postwar period . |
| 26 | In Britain some 14 per cent of families with dependent children are headed by a lone parent , and figures for one-parent families are on the increase in Britain and the USA . |
| 27 | While the majority are carried out by a person known to the victim , random attacks on strangers are on the increase . |
| 28 | Cases of contaminated apple juice are on the increase because apple growers are under pressure to use fewer chemicals , it was claimed today . |
| 29 | MONEY laundering in the UK is on the increase , says the Bank of England . |
| 30 | Every day more young people are infected with HIV — often completely unaware they have been personally at risk — and risky behaviour is on the increase again . |