Example sentences of "increase [prep] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NRA attributed the downward trend in major incidents mainly to its tough and rigorous pollution prevention and control measures and the strong signals being sent by the courts through massive increases in the size of fines imposed on convicted offenders . |
| 2 | The Bank has consistently ignored that particular argument and in contrast argues that staff have an excellent remuneration package with annual increases in the form of increments and Profit Share Scheme . |
| 3 | Decreases in the length of Stay ; increases in the number of operations performed ; the introduction of new pieces of equipment ; new investigatory procedures ; new operations and other medical innovations will all have an impact upon the levels of nursing required . |
| 4 | The Worldwide Fund for Nature is , of course , just one part of a huge international Green Movement , in which we have seen massive increases in the number of supporters over the past few years . |
| 5 | Technical and financial improvement saw the virtual elimination of live performances ( regretted by some people ) ; immeasurable increases in the quality of settings , costumes and production generally ; the commissioning of plays written specifically for TV ( much encouraged by Sidney Newman 's ITV ‘ Armchair Theatre ’ in the 1960s and BBC series such as ‘ Play for Today ’ and ‘ The Wednesday Play ’ ) ; and the discovery , with the Forsyte Saga , that audiences would happily get hooked on serialization of literary classics ( and not-so-classics ) . |
| 6 | Stalin 's successor Khruschev , in the mid-1950s , made overtaking US meat production ( which entailed rapid increases in the production of feed-grains ) the measure of success or failure of his attempt to improve the Soviet diet . |
| 7 | There was an increase in the price of goods that the Third World imported , more exports , therefore , were needed to be able to afford the same amount of imports . |
| 8 | As we have seen , an increase in the price of bonds implies a fall in the rate of interest . |
| 9 | A procedure adopted by some authorities to estimate recurrent expenditure is to assume that user needs and the number of new titles required are fairly constant and to allow simply for an increase in the price of materials . |
| 10 | For example , an increase in the price of spirits will be associated with reduced spirits consumption and increased consumption of other beverages . |
| 11 | There was a steady increase in the proportion of businessmen appointed , from two out of twenty in the 1970s to six out of nineteen in the 1980s , but they were still outnumbered by representatives of the professions . |
| 12 | One of the most significant recent developments in the criminal justice system in England and Wales has been the vast increase in the proportion of defendants legally advised and represented in the courts . |
| 13 | There has been a similar increase in the proportion of families headed by a never-married mother over the period ( 77% ) , arising from a growth in the proportion of births outside marriage as well as the growing trend for single mothers to bring up children by themselves . |
| 14 | I would very much favour an increase in the proportion of students taking joint degrees . |
| 15 | I would favour a very substantial increase in the proportion of students taking combined and joint subject degrees where Business Studies are an important element . |
| 16 | The increase in the proportion of remarriages reflects the implementation of the Divorce Law Reform Act in 1969 , after which the number of divorces rose sharply . |
| 17 | This is due in part to an increase in the proportion of births outside marriage and of mothers who bring up these children themselves as well as to less pressure on young women and men to ‘ legitimise ’ a conception with a ‘ shot-gun wedding ’ . |
| 18 | The Scheme has been successful in contributing to the increase in the proportion of suspects who receive legal advice at the police station , although that proportion is still relatively low . |
| 19 | The University 's 1990 planning statement envisaged overall growth of 1 per cent a year with an increase in the proportion of graduates to undergraduates . |
| 20 | This is the inexorable increase in the proportion of children born out of wedlock ( see chart on previous page ) . |
| 21 | The authors suggest that the social consequences of environmental lead may be serious , with a large increase in the proportion of children requiring educational assistance . |
| 22 | The demographic trends indicated a growth in population of 30 per cent by the end of the century with a consequent substantial increase in the proportion of children . |
| 23 | Over the period between 1872 and 1905 it is probable that increased facilities for reporting and prosecuting cattle theft resulted in a gradual increase in the proportion of crimes which were reported . |
| 24 | ‘ Curiously enough the reduction in low level concentrations of sulphur dioxide , resulted in an increase in the frequency of detections and complaints about fish smells because the acidic gases had been reacting with and neutralising the smell of the amines ’ . |
| 25 | In one , Moss Green , there had also been an increase in the percentage of girls opting for chemistry , physics and technical crafts . |
| 26 | Figure 5 shows a stepwise increase in the percentage of asthmatics with hiatal hernia as the oesophageal mucosal status worsens ( χ 2 =36.6 ; p<0.0001 ) . |
| 27 | There is a progressive increase in the percentage of cases with defective cardia in all parameters evaluated according to the severity of endoscopic oesophagitis , which is significantly more pronounced in patients with oesophagitis Grade III and IV ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 28 | There was a small increase in the percentage of launches to pleasure craft , from 54% in 1989 to 56% in 1990 , and 72% of the lives saved by the Institution 's lifeboats during the year fell into this category . |
| 29 | The doctors point out in the British Medical Journal that , though crack dependency is not a direct risk factor for Aids , prostitutes ‘ trying to maintain expensive crack habits may be tempted into unsafe sex practices … which in turn may lead to an increase in the spread of Aids ’ . |
| 30 | Dietary changes also reveal improvements in food consumption patterns , since there has been an increase in the consumption of oils , chicken meat , eggs and milk , which in the past have been beyond the reach of many of the poor . |