Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [vb pp] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Population decline has been halted in many areas since the mid-1960s to its present level of 346,000 , with employment in manufacturing trebling in this period and total employment growing by one-half ( Shucksmith and Lloyd 1982 ) . |
| 2 | Pain arising from the costal margin has been recognised in medical studies for many years . |
| 3 | A children s adventure playground has been built in recent years , and the field is well used by the village football and cricket teams . |
| 4 | So much has been written in recent years about Ralph Sarich 's Orbital two-stroke engine that our award for technical innovation might appear somewhat tardy . |
| 5 | Much has been written in recent years of the so-called " male menopause " . |
| 6 | A good deal has been written in recent years about Primitive Catholicism , the tendency apparent even within the New Testament period itself to domesticate the Holy Spirit , to make him the perquisite of the Church . |
| 7 | His Laws is still read with pleasure when much that has been written in intervening centuries on the subjects which he treated appears arid , unintelligible , pompous or irrelevant . |
| 8 | Many businesses close ; employment has been lost in rural areas ; when subsidies first went and interest rates were high large numbers of farmers were forced to leave their land . |
| 9 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |
| 10 | The Irish Bank Officials ’ Association , over the years , has made a tremendous contribution to the welfare of its members and we know that in recent times IBOA has been engaged in many struggles to protect those terms and conditions . |
| 11 | A YOUNG flying ace of a Spitfire squadron which has been engaged in many battles over Britain , and who married a former Sheerness Carnival Queen , has been killed in action . |
| 12 | While the truly indigenous private sector has been assisted in various ways to play a greater role in the national economy , this has often been at the expense of immigrant communities , who have rights of citizenship based on birth . |
| 13 | One particularly important technique that has been developed in recent years is the inverse scattering method of Belinskii and Zakharov ( 1978 , 1979 ) which had previously been developed as a soliton technique . |
| 14 | Another solution-generating technique that has been developed in recent years is that associated with Bäcklund transformations . |
| 15 | But a formidable argument has been developed in recent years by leading academic lawyers that this stream of authority should be the subject of reinterpretation to reveal a different line of thought pointing to the conclusion that money paid to a public authority pursuant to an ultra vires demand should be repayable , without the necessity of establishing compulsion , on the simple ground that there was no consideration for the payment . |
| 16 | Will the success that has been developed in these areas be supported or impeded by the 1988 Education Reform Act ? |
| 17 | This has been highlighted in two lines of decisions in road traffic cases where the plaintiffs ' damages have been reduced , even though they in no way caused or contributed to the accidents in which they were injured . |
| 18 | The importance of such analysis by parity has been highlighted in previous studies . |
| 19 | The expenditure of public money on this , yet another television service , has been criticized in some quarters , but the Governor told me his decision was based on the fact , as he saw it , of NTV 's pro-Federal bias . |
| 20 | The budget of the Equal Opportunities Commission has been cut in real terms during recent years ; the report says : ‘ equal opportunity remains only an ideal ’ . |
| 21 | The distributed aspect contrasts sharply with the lumped nature of circuit representation of discrete components that has been adopted in all networks considered so far . |
| 22 | In Yip Kai-foon the Privy Council rejected the solution which has been adopted in some jurisdictions of directing the jury to convict of the offence which they consider to be more probable . |
| 23 | The same approach has been adopted in later cases . |
| 24 | Beryl has been recorded in micaceous pegmatites of the Moine schists in north-west Scotland ( Berridge , 1969 ) . |
| 25 | Alluvial gold has been recorded in several streams in an area of Dalradian metasediments to the south of Loch Tay and from small base metal workings in the vicinity ( Heddle , 1901 ) . |
| 26 | Sometimes this seemed indicated , as when he told the legislature they must beware ‘ When we are freeing ourselves from one form of imperialism [ against those who would ] … bind us to another one which would swiftly undo all the work that has been done in recent years to foster … a free and independent nation ’ ; ‘ As we would not have British masters , so we would not have Russian masters . ’ |
| 27 | Much has been done in recent months to draw those matters to the attention of the Department and , as I said , I believe that Ministers have been listening . |
| 28 | This sort of survey has been done in many communities since the 1960s when it first became popular . |
| 29 | To date , some work has been done in several areas including planning and learning and induction . |
| 30 | The algorithm has been implemented in two versions ( using least and most distant neighbours ) . |