Example sentences of "been increasing [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , there had been increasing disquiet in the early 1970s about the lack of clear and ‘ blanket ’ control of demolition , particularly on the part of amenity societies , but also on the part of local authorities who were concerned at some of the effects of commercial enterprise . |
| 2 | But since then there has been increasing realisation that the two causes must somehow be brought together . |
| 3 | In recent years , there has been increasing criticism of the view that professionals provide valuable services to society . |
| 4 | From September 1992 onwards there had been increasing criticism of the government not only from the BSP but from the MRF and also from President Zhelyu Zhelev [ see p. 39105 ] . |
| 5 | In recent years there has been increasing emphasis on the importance of training for staff at all levels in libraries of all kinds but apart from a circular letter sent out by The Library Association in 1976 , and two publications on the subject , one in 1977 and another in 1978 , there have been no systematic attempts to assess overall provision of training in the UK . |
| 6 | There is no presumption that monopoly is necessarily bad , and the Commission is charged to investigate whether or not the monopoly acts against the public interest , a brief that may be widely interpreted though in recent years there has been increasing emphasis on the ‘ maintenance and promotion of effective competition ’ . |
| 7 | Enrolments for teacher training have dropped off sharply ( see Fig. 9.1 ) and , despite government incentives , there has been increasing difficulty in providing teachers for rural areas where security is poor . |
| 8 | Recently , there has been increasing activity in the search for long-acting contraceptives . |
| 9 | There has been increasing concern about local authority ‘ self-donated ’ planning permissions . |
| 10 | There has been increasing concern expressed in recent years over the amount of unused , vacant , derelict or dormant urban land ( a variety of terms is used , typically with little precision ) . |
| 11 | Now in America , through the nineteen seventies and eighties there 's been increasing concern , an increasing concern that the states were becoming more and more dependent on the federal government and these figures suggest that there was good reasons , this was one of Ronald Reagan 's campaign themes , this was a g a growing concern , he said the federal system has been shattered , it 's , it 's changed its character , the states are now dependent on the federal government and this is dreadful and we must , we must change this . |
| 12 | In the last fifty years there has been increasing competition from foreign textile and clothing firms for markets in all parts of the world . |
| 13 | Since the news in early March that the leading party in the Basque parliament , the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) was , controversially , in a process of negotiation with ETA 's political wing , Herri Batasuna , there had been increasing speculation that the Spanish government might be considering negotiating a settlement with more moderate elements within the ETA leadership . |
| 14 | Since 1974 there has been increasing evidence of party politics intervening in local elections , with local-authority-wide campaigns being fought on national policy programmes . |
| 15 | In recent days there 's been increasing evidence that the European countries , including Britain , are extremely disturbed about this . |
| 16 | There has been increasing anguish among law-abiding poll tax payers who are being surcharged £19 to make up for the shortfall caused by uncollected tax . |
| 17 | Recently there has been increasing recognition of the importance of tax operating costs , both administrative costs to the government and compliance costs to taxpayers and third parties . |
| 18 | Though recent instruments like the new SZ zoom stereos are designed to be readily fitted to a range of different equipment there has been increasing demand in recent years for custom equipment and his has led to customer specific modular configurations for individual projects . |
| 19 | A second legacy of Tiananmen has been increasing tension over the course of Hong Kong 's political development , with just six months remaining before China 's parliament is due to enact the mini-constitution , or Basic Law , setting out the pattern of post-1997 government . |
| 20 | With an assumed growing population in early Anglo-Saxon England there would have been increasing pressure on rural resources , especially by the second half of the seventh century . |
| 21 | In Scotland , the lack of development of Elderly Mentally Infirm Homes and the failure to implement the recommendations of the Timbury Report has meant that there has been increasing pressure on local authorities to care for " the mentally confused " ( the SWSG term ) and problems getting people into psychiatric care as they deteriorate . |
| 22 | There s been increasing pressure on education authorities to reduce the number of empty places at schools , which means some village schools have had to combine or close altogether . |
| 23 | Over recent years there has been increasing interest in these widely distributed and biologically important compounds , and their importance in platelet biochemistry and platelet-vessel wall interactions has been emphasised . |
| 24 | In recent years there has been increasing interest in the evaluation of performance in the public sector of the economy . |
| 25 | Over the past few years there has been increasing interest in the biological characteristics of biliary and gall bladder epithelial cells in an attempt to enhance our understanding of diseases affecting the biliary tree . |
| 26 | There has been increasing confusion over the terms " assessment " and " record-keeping " . |
| 27 | Paralleling this has been increasing acceptance of artificial insemination by donor although little is known of how the private citizen and the community at large view this , in vitro fertilisation and other similar medical techniques . |