Example sentences of "[prep] the growing number of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PERHAPS the RSPCA shares the blame for the growing number of pets abandoned during the recession . |
| 2 | He explained that , since he wrote that advice , it was getting more difficult to arrange a DIY funeral because of the growing number of takeovers ; in fact , three companies between them had large parts of the southern half of the country sewn up . |
| 3 | Both are hoping to develop the reading habit , to encourage the child to explore the many pleasures of reading ( and of the growing number of items in audio-visual format ) , and to gain practice in this essential skill as well as in discrimination . |
| 4 | In addition , United States bankers , and beneficiaries of and applicants for the issuance of letters of credit remained concerned that unless the solvency and reliability of the NVOCC could be established by the FMC prior to the issuance of an NVOCC bill , cases of non-existent goods or of unpaid freight or related charges would multiply with the growing number of issuances . |
| 5 | Begun in 1960 , in 1984 the fair moved to the ample space of the Fiera which is better equipped to deal with the growing number of visitors and exhibitors . |
| 6 | Has evaluation kept pace with the growing number of courses and programmes in user education ? |
| 7 | Besides the formal courses organized by local education authorities ( LEAs ) , initial training institutions and HMI , one must include public reports upon educational developments ( Warnock , Bullock , Plowden ) , and , published privately , the Gulbenkian Report ( Gulbenkian Foundation , 1982 ) in the arts education domain ; the reports of curriculum development programmes , for example , the Schools Curriculum Development Committee ( SCDC ) Arts in Schools Project bulletins ; digests of research , descriptions of practice and opinion which appear in professional journals ; formal and informal contact with LEA advisory services , including the growing number of teachers seconded for professional development purposes ; inspections ; long and short award bearing courses ; changes in examination syllabuses ( of which the recent introduction of GCSE is an example ) ; even teacher contact with the representatives of educational suppliers . |
| 8 | He fields a steady stream of enquiries , not only from visitors — ‘ You never know what you are going to be asked next ’ — but from the growing number of researchers aware of his expertise and experience . |
| 9 | The closure of the centre means that anti-poaching patrols have ceased and there is also great pressure on the park from the growing number of refugees displaced by the civil war . |
| 10 | There was considerable debate in the mid-1980s of the mounting ‘ burden ’ on the working population likely to result from the growing number of pensioners in the second and third decades of the next century . |
| 11 | Pollution resulting from the growing number of cars will be partly offset by the replacement of highly polluting leaded petrol and two-stroke engines and improvements in engine maintenance . |
| 12 | In recent years MDO subscription rates have risen sharply in response to the growing number of claims resulting from greater public expectations and willingness to sue , more ambitious surgical techniques and more expensive Court settlements . |
| 13 | The book will appeal to the growing number of professionals and students whose work brings them into contact with farming . |
| 14 | They also enable the council to respond to the growing number of families becoming homeless due to mortgage difficulties . |
| 15 | And in response to the growing number of women presenting with problems associated with alcohol dependence , the Board in its report this year makes some moderate and practical proposals about the way in which alcohol might responsibly be marketed . |
| 16 | I 'm partial to a nice pun , and BT 's image began to soar in direct ratio to the growing number of commercials on the air . |
| 17 | Issued in part as a response to the growing number of appeals over controversial retail , industrial and other developments in sensitive areas . |
| 18 | An even greater criticism is that the vast sums spent should have been spent elsewhere , especially in missionary efforts among the growing number of Englishmen who never went to church or chapel . |
| 19 | Avon and Somerset Police , concerned by the growing number of officers taking sick leave due to back trouble , discovered in the survey that 15 per cent of the ricked backs were caused or aggravated by sitting in police vans and personnel carriers . |
| 20 | The primitive inn that catered for travellers who had missed the last ferry is now a modern hotel , and commercial interests have been attracted by the growing number of tourists . |