Example sentences of "[art] growing number of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I notice , for instance , the growing number of families in my own area who are involved in Eastern mysticism and the soft fringes of the occult . |
| 2 | However , the growing number of students with instrumental proficiency in recent years has meant an increasing concentration on orchestral work . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , another option became available to the poor as they joined the growing number of emigrants to the New World . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is witnessed by the growing number of people with membership of various conservation societies and in recent major international documents such as The World Conservation Strategy , the Global Possible , the consensus at the Second International Conference on Population and , within the USA , Global 2000 . |
| 6 | links together the growing number of people in this country and abroad interested in the Medau Rhythmic Movement . |
| 7 | The Medau Society was formed in 1952 to link together the growing number of people throughout Britain interested in Medau Rhythmic Movement , and to train part-time teachers to supplement the work of the few German trained teachers . |
| 8 | If , however , the growing number of jobs within the service industries is viewed as a consequence of rising productivity levels within manufacturing , then the labour released should have been reabsorbed by the service sector . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Issued in part as a response to the growing number of appeals over controversial retail , industrial and other developments in sensitive areas . |
| 11 | This 30-minute insight squeezes out all the grisly facts and figures and reveals the growing number of attacks on British tourists around the world . |
| 12 | This report , the standard books , the growing number of translations of the many books of the Scriptures , and discussions with scholars in Rangoon University or simple yet thoughtful Buddhists in the villages , aroused in me a reverent admiration for the Buddha , a deep interest in his teaching , and a nagging need to build some bridge in my own mind between the two religions . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In view of the number of working and pleasure horses in the kingdom , when the phrase ‘ horsepower ’ meant literally just that , and the concentration of dairy cows around and even within the metropolis , and also the growing number of pets in middle-class households , it is strange that the demands of so many animal owners , some wealthy or even extremely rich , had not led to the development of a proper profession competent to deal with animal diseases , just as the professions of physician , surgeon and apothecary had burgeoned to meet public demand at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries . |
| 15 | Self-reported illness , sickness absence rates and a growing number of studies on specific aspects of ill-health all supported the main conclusion : the greatest burden of ill-health and disability was borne by the worst off . |
| 16 | In recent years , Zambia has received a growing number of refugees from the continuing civil war in Mozambique . |
| 17 | This is a useful addition to a growing number of texts on social policy , social services , social work and Europe . |
| 18 | What was more , there had been a growing number of mice in her house of late and she put it down to the age of the animal . |
| 19 | There is a growing number of course in higher education with a language component but — apart from the law degrees — not enough for the service professions and vocations . |
| 20 | Her actions were typical of a growing number of members of the security forces and prison service who take advantage of the availability of firearms to commit suicide . |
| 21 | Faced with a growing number of desertions from within Tory ranks over the peace negotiations of 1711 – 13 , Oxford needed to court the support of the Scottish Jacobite peers and Jacobite MPs to maintain his majority in Parliament . |
| 22 | The reforms enjoy the support of a growing number of people in the medical profession itself . |
| 23 | In its place has emerged a growing number of people in such work as banking , finance , insurance , property and advertising . |
| 24 | That 's the message from the Yoga Centre which is attracting a growing number of people in Northern Ireland each year . |
| 25 | Their numerical expansion , elaboration of denominational and educational institutions and practice of evangelical united front philanthropy gave many of them the confidence to undertake an increasingly militant struggle for equality of religious status under the law , culminating in the case of a growing number of advocacy of disestablishment as the logical end of the voluntaryist principle . |
| 26 | Four albums later and with a growing number of awards to her daughter 's credit , mother Safiqua is reconciled to Najma 's career . |
| 27 | There was evidence of a steady trend towards trade liberalization , brought on partly by the recognition of political changes in eastern Europe [ see p. 37552 ] — most notably the prospect of German unification — and partly by reports of a growing number of violations of COCOM rules [ see p. 37896 ] . |
| 28 | First , there has been a growing number of prosecutions in recent years for injuries resulting from organized matches of Association and Rugby football . |
| 29 | The collapse of repeated initiatives by Secretary of State George Schultz was welcomed by a growing number of Palestinians in the territories . |
| 30 | A growing number of disputes over building contracts has inevitably led to more cases coming before the courts or arbitrators . |