Example sentences of "[adj] year [vb -s] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house price collapse of the last few years has been a terrible dose of cold turkey for the home owning classes , but has it been a long enough agony to drive out the idea that there 's something inherently beneficial about rising house prices . |
| 2 | Perhaps one of the most important developments of the last few years has been a steady but widespread trend towards protectionism . |
| 3 | It has out-performed other European markets for most of the period , and this year has been a good 5 per cent ahead . |
| 4 | Our opener this year has been a runaway success in the States where the box office success of this relatively low budget film has taken everyone by surprise . |
| 5 | This year has been a tough one for industry and commerce . |
| 6 | ‘ A satisfying feature of our increased export activity this year has been the balanced nature of our business , ’ said Alex Montgomery . |
| 7 | One of the major features of the growth of our education system over the last thirty-five years has been the enormous increase in provision of higher education . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most important and far-reaching change in nursing in the past ten years has been the wholesale move away from the subservient , passive role of the nurse who was accountable to doctors for any treatments she undertook , and to nursing supervisors for standards of personal conduct and discipline . |
| 9 | In fact , the most significant change in the last twenty years has been a cultural trend towards less formal minute-taking in meetings . |
| 10 | The great lie of the last two hundred years has been the mistaken idea that realism is a way of telling the truth . |
| 11 | Filippo Pandolfi , vice-president of the European Commission in charge of research , has further remarked that the adopted procedures may help to avoid errors and falsification of research , which in recent years has been a controversial issue in the US . |
| 12 | Perhaps their most important contribution for Sussex birds in recent years has been the vast increase in the provision of food at bird-tables and feeding stations . |
| 13 | One of the Territorial Army 's biggest problems in recent years has been the substantial turnover of recruits , which has amounted to as much as 30 per cent . |
| 14 | Another feature of building society expansion in recent years has been the increasing concentration of the industry through merger activity . |
| 15 | A very useful development in insulin therapy in recent years has been the fixed-dose mixture of insulin , either 30 per cent short-acting and 70 per cent intermediate-acting ( Mixtard ) or equal parts of the two insulins ( Initard ) . |
| 16 | An outstanding feature of the UK economy in recent years has been the rapid growth in employment in the service industries . |
| 17 | The most exciting development in recent years has been the illuminated fountain . |
| 18 | The art critic , Peter Fuller , considers : " One worrying feature of recent years has been the fashionable appropriation of the language of the " spiritual " to defend work of a numbing vacuity " ( Fuller 1990 : 18 ) . |
| 19 | The first weekend of the new year has been a busy one for the regions fox hunts — and for anti hunt campaigners . |
| 20 | This last year has been a tumultuous one for the Dame . |
| 21 | Iraqis have quickly reconciled themselves to military defeat , but the real shock of last year has been the gradual realization that defeat has brought poverty . |
| 22 | The past year has been a vexing time for most research councils finding themselves in the situation of having to reduce their volume of activity within a failing budget . |
| 23 | Commenting on the results , Chairman Hugh Laughland said , ‘ The past year has been a stern test of the ability of British industry to weather a recessionary trading climate . |