Example sentences of "have be growing " in BNC.
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| 1 | For who within the service is seeking or is willing to dismantle these units whose power and autonomy has been growing in strides since the Royal Commission of 1960 and the subsequent Police Act of 1964 first created the amalgamated giants ? |
| 2 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |
| 3 | Mr Mladenov followed his appointment as Communist Party General Secretary with a speech clearly aimed at the country 's dissident movement , which has been growing . |
| 4 | Concern has been growing for some time now , voiced not only by the media but also by some high-powered academics , ex-civil servants and former senior government statisticians , that official information which should be wholly objective is being distorted , suppressed or otherwise interfered with to serve the political ends of the government . |
| 5 | There can be no doubt that the momentum in favour of German unity , as one state or a confederation , has been growing in East Germany . |
| 6 | Interest in the production of foods without the use of chemicals has been growing rapidly . |
| 7 | But in industrial countries in particular — or in countries that abut industrial countries — the rain has been growing steadily more acidic in recent decades , to the point where it has already done severe damage to ancient buildings and statues , where it is has virtually destroyed vast numbers of trees in continental Europe ( notably Germany ) and killed most of the life , including the fish and crayfish , in many of the lakes and rivers of Scandinavia . |
| 8 | The dome of Santiaguito in Guatemala has been growing ever since 1922 , and was still growing at the time of writing . |
| 9 | However , during the same period the Japanese economy has been growing at about 3% per year . |
| 10 | Parallel with these events in Belgrade , and in mutual interaction , there has been growing anti-Albanian agitation among the Serbs and Montenegrins in Kosovo . |
| 11 | Fortunately , technical developments have ensured that the increase in computing power per unit cost has been growing at about an order of magnitude every 6 years over the last three decades . |
| 12 | G. The tourist industry of the South West has been growing since the railways were built in the last century . |
| 13 | C. As a port , Bristol has been growing in size and trade . |
| 14 | A. The number of people in the larger cities has been growing rapidly during the last 50 years . |
| 15 | It also claims that its business has been growing faster than any of its competitors , basically because clients do n't like paying fees . |
| 16 | Demand has been growing , boosted by media publicity and referrals from local funeral directors , who now know about her . |
| 17 | Yet Jennifer in recent months has been growing through a difficult spell in the growing up process , particularly mentally . |
| 18 | iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman , formerly with Siemens AG , and Eberhard Faerber , founder of Peripherie Computer Systeme GmbH , is a privately-held company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , and employs 110 staff . |
| 19 | This year the surplus has been growing fast . |
| 20 | At the RS/6000 launch , Filip said that the workstation business was definitely profitable in the fourth quarter of 1992 , and in the current quarter has been growing faster than the 30% to 35% achieved for all of 1992 . |
| 21 | iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman ( ex Siemens ) and Eberhard Faerber ( founder of PCS Computer Systems ) , is a privately-owned company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , employs 110 staff . |
| 22 | In the rural areas of Wales and Scotland the tradition of non-partisan elections continues in some areas , but even so the role of the parties has been growing consistently since local government reorganisation ( Gyford and James 1983:2 ; Keating and Midwinter 1983 ; 107 — 13 ) . |
| 23 | Once all the countries of Other world were ruled by the powers of light ; but for years now darkness has been growing . |
| 24 | It shows that the proportion of female enrolments has been growing steadily , though it is still some way short of parity . |
| 25 | So far , at least , the official policy of the union has been to support the AWB , though in recent years criticism has been growing . |
| 26 | Women have been neglected in studies of the transition to retirement even though the proportion of women participating in the labour force , and therefore undergoing retirement from paid employment in their own right , has been growing steadily — an example of the patriarchal construction of retirement both in practice and in policy analysis and research . |
| 27 | Her salary has been growing to the point where she feels she can afford to buy a home and it promises to climb much further over the next few years . |
| 28 | Literature about informal carers and the experience of caring has been growing ever since the pioneering work of Abrams ( e.g. 1980 ) . |
| 29 | Political pressure has been growing for the Queen to pay . |
| 30 | But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark . |