Example sentences of "recent [noun pl] have been the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other recent influences have been the job Creation programme , the Special Temporary Employment Programme and the Youth Opportunities programme , sponsored by the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 2 | Afternoon visit to Lake Bogoria which in recent years has been the home of the lesser flamingo . |
| 3 | Part of the Trust 's work in recent years has been the compilation of surveys of vernacular buildings and landscapes . |
| 4 | The reason for the popularity of the de-clawing operation in recent years has been the concern of ( usually wealthy ) owners for their soft furnishings . |
| 5 | By far the most popular location in recent years has been the Netherlands , for the very good reason that it has for some time offered by far the best deal . |
| 6 | For example , one of the most influential developments in macroeconomics in recent years has been the rise of the new classical school — an extreme form of laissez-faire monetarism . |
| 7 | One of the most exciting developments in recent years has been the degree of convergence between models of visual function built up by computer scientists trying to figure out how to build machines that can see and physiologists trying to work out what different parts of the visual system do . |
| 8 | One of the most provocative findings in recent years has been the degree of parallel organization hidden within individual anatomical regions . |
| 9 | A feature of recent years has been the degree to which the differing agencies — HMI , the DES , Further Education Unit , and NBHS ( now renamed Skill : National Bureau for Students with Disabilities ) have worked together . |
| 10 | A major improvement in recent years has been the inclusion in such reports of analysis and interpretation of the data ( see , for instance , Cook and Dacre 1985 ) . |
| 11 | In these cases the locational attraction of rural areas can be considerable , and one of the most remarkable locational shifts in manufacturing in recent years has been the closure of port-based , imported cane sugar processing plants in East London in favour of sugar beet processing factories in East Anglia ( Community Development Project 1977 ) . |
| 12 | An ominous dimension in recent years has been the use of public order legislation as a means with which to repress the expression of sexual preferences . |
| 13 | One particularly important feature in recent years has been the growth of manufacturing employment within rural areas . |
| 14 | One of the most remarkable aspects of population change in recent years has been the growth and redistribution of the labour force . |
| 15 | One response to the rising level of unemployment in recent years has been the growth of Local Employment Development Agencies . |
| 16 | A development in more recent years has been the recognition that some ‘ staff ’ management has become highly specialised in areas of work which form a fundamental part of line management , eg. in the fields of industrial relations and capital expenditure . |
| 17 | One of the most visible changes in schools in recent years has been the introduction of the General Certificate of Education ( GCSE ) . |
| 18 | I think the best move they made in in , in recent years has been the introduction of what they call the and it travels all the way in the town . |
| 19 | It deals with major negotiating items that have not been settled at the RSJC and in recent years has been the forum in which the unions present their annual pay claims . |
| 20 | One of the most interesting developments of recent years has been the emergence of a theory of discourse intonation . |
| 21 | A particular feature in recent years has been the polarisation of power away from local education authorities ( LEAs ) to the centre ( government ) and to the periphery ( schools ) . |
| 22 | Most significant in recent years have been the field experiments carried out by the British ornithologists Nick Davies and Mike Brooke from the University of Cambridge , and the field observations of another British ornithologist , Ian Wyllie . |
| 23 | Danish coach Steen Knudsen had criticised England prior to their semi-final clash in Aarhus , Holland , claiming their recent successes had been the result of ‘ a destructive form of basketball ’ . |
| 24 | One of the most interesting recent developments had been the discovery that the very first muscle cells to differentiate also erect a kind of scaffold of pathways along which the later ‘ motor ’ nerves migrate in order to locate their muscle targets ( Nature , Vol 301 p 66 ) . |
| 25 | One of the more interesting of recent developments has been the initiation by large firms of local compact schemes whereby they , as employers , guarantee to provide employment for young people leaving local YTS schemes , providing the graduates have gained a predetermined qualification . |