Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [be] increasing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Requests to place pupils in particular schools have been increasing during the 1980s . |
| 2 | The reason why coal imports have been increasing has been the failure of British Coal to be competitive enough . |
| 3 | Over recent months , the Japanese and Us teams have been increasing the intensity of the forces they apply to building and model , and have been comparing the results . |
| 4 | Carbon dioxide levels have been increasing steadily since the pre-industrial nineteenth century as a result of emissions from the burning of carbon-based fossil fuels and changes in land-use practices , especially recent deforestation of the tropical rainforests . |
| 5 | Either customers have been choosing more expensive menu and wine list items or ( much more likely ) prices have been increasing . |
| 6 | It has meant that in Mexico , for instance , although the proportion of illiterates nationally has decreased every decade , in recent years absolute numbers have been increasing . |
| 7 | In recent years the number of initiatives have been increasing rapidly with development concentrated in deprived urban communities . |
| 8 | B. The graph shows that the wages of farm labourers have been increasing . |
| 9 | United Kingdom manufactured exports have been increasing faster than world trade . |
| 10 | Many reports , and particularly the Black Report and the more recent Health Education Council ‘ The Health Divide ’ have used the relationship between occupational class and death rates over time to demonstrate that inequalities in health between socio-economic groups have been increasing since 1951 and perhaps since 1931 . |