Example sentences of "[noun sg] be growing " in BNC.
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| 1 | But both Dr Kohl and Mr Modrow , aware that the hopes of many for reunification are growing by the day , and more quickly than the politicians can accommodate , tried to cool expectations . |
| 2 | Doubts about Communist motives in Spain would have been submerged under the general enthusiasm for the Republic , had not doubts about Soviet Communism been growing at the same time . |
| 3 | Around this lily-covered pond are growing just a few of the 3,000 members of the Araceae family . |
| 4 | BIG-MONEY court-battles over the dereliction of the American nuclear industry are growing popular . |
| 5 | The question therefore arises as to how far these forms of citizen action are growing and are going to supplement much more conventional types of political participation such as voting and contacting elected representatives and officials . |
| 6 | It is quite possible that the economy may converge to a steady state not characterized by equilibrium , e.g. , where capital and the labour force are growing at the same rate , but there is a constant level of unemployment . |
| 7 | Poisoned by pollution , hunted for meat , drowned in fishing nets or simply bored to death in captivity , the toll is growing by the day . |
| 8 | His fan club is growing all the time . |
| 9 | ‘ The whole programme is growing too large . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , grassroots opposition is growing . |
| 11 | Opposition is growing within the Central American state of Honduras to the granting of a huge logging concession in the pine forests of the Mosquito coast . |
| 12 | That the LIBF is growing in importance is not longer in doubt . |
| 13 | The prospects for an acceptable permanent solution were discussed at a District Council meeting recently and it seemed agreed that the travellers should have a permanent site and that the situation is urgent as tension is growing . |
| 14 | Rebekah is growing stronger and cheekier every day . |
| 15 | He goes on to say that ‘ lexically based computer research is growing rapidly . |
| 16 | In the long run , this situation is bad for Britain 's industry , Maddock argues , because the technology gap is growing all the time between companies working on advanced defence electronics ( in which Britain leads the world ) and these struggling to retain some of the consumer electronics business . |
| 17 | The deliberations irritated both groups a little because they realised that the gap is growing between those who run computers and those who do n't . |
| 18 | Not all independent schools are of a high standard , but Judith Judd claims that ‘ independent schools are generally better resourced than their state counterparts and the gap is growing ’ . |
| 19 | The Indian software industry is growing at an average rate of 35 per cent a year . |
| 20 | About one in five of all trips are made for business purposes and the business travel industry is growing at twice the speed of tourism . |
| 21 | But the pressure from industry is growing . |
| 22 | A new industry is growing up around investors ' urgent needs for fast , accurate and systematized management of financial data . |
| 23 | Now the momentum is growing : Alan Cooke 's Shades Of Grey last month , Gbenga Agbenugba 's Another Lonely Londoner this month , Naomi King 's O.P.P. next month . |
| 24 | At a meeting yesterday of the Scottish Association of GP Fundholders at Falkirk , Scotland 's health minister , Lord Fraser , said : ‘ It is clear momentum is growing . ’ |
| 25 | Although there are occasional highly publicised instances of expropriation … foreign private investment is growing rapidly . |
| 26 | ‘ And this figure is growing because of the higher proportion of plastic used in modern cars . |
| 27 | The Central Council for British Naturism claims to have over half a million members ( so to speak ) - and the figure is growing . |
| 28 | But the pressure in his bladder was growing , and he set off across the square in search of a public toilet . |
| 29 | J. C. D. Clark has asserted that government at St James 's and Westminster was conducted " in terms which usually owed relatively little to a sense of popular pressure or wide accountability " , and although he can not deny that the electorate was growing in the period c. 1680 – 1715 , he attributes this to the attempts by the party leaders to manipulate the potential electorate for their own purposes : " The parties , in other words , created their electorate in these years ( rather than vice versa ) " . |
| 30 | Anti-Nasserite emotion was growing in Washington as the Egyptian leader went his own way . |