Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [vb pp] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More specific economic policies , which have been widely discussed in recent years , fit within this tendency towards an autocratic state . |
| 2 | It is a daunting task to compile an adequate list , but it has been successfully attempted in such publications as Crane and Kaye 's Census of British Newspapers and Periodicals , 1620–1800 ( 1927 ) , and the Library Association 's Subject-Index to Periodicals . |
| 3 | Whilst these decision aids have been successfully used in certain instances , they are not in regular use in the majority of organisations . |
| 4 | The explosive charge would have been either flat , circular or cylindrical and in any of those cases the disruptive explosive power would have been uniformly distributed in all directions . |
| 5 | Yet this is becoming increasingly difficult as the numbers of new council houses being built have been greatly reduced in recent years , while many have been sold off by Conservative councils . |
| 6 | Within the National Parks , all land use surveys have shown how their landscapes have been much altered in recent years by the advance of agriculture and forestry ( Leonard , 1980 ) although as Table 8.2 shows , both National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONBs ) still contain very few urban areas ( Anderson , 1980 ) . |
| 7 | Both phrases have been much invoked in recent weeks as in : ‘ Mulroney has driven the Last Spike into our National Dream . ’ |
| 8 | Key words have been much used in recent years in the retrieval of information . |
| 9 | This Weberian line has been much used in International Relations , especially in the subfield known as Foreign Policy Analysis . |
| 10 | A DARLINGTON man who carried out conservation work has been highly commended in prestigious awards . |
| 11 | Two women have been brutally raped in separate attacks in the region . |
| 12 | The success was based on good utilisation of staff and equipment , particularly during periods that have been seasonally affected in previous years . |
| 13 | With newly appointed White House Chief of Staff James Baker firmly in charge of Bush 's re-election bid , the campaign shifted away from the religious right-wing agenda ( particularly the issues of " family values " and implacable opposition to abortion ) which had been so pronounced in past months , and which had been shown consistently to be out of alignment with the views of the mainstream of the electorate . |
| 14 | Here in the UK , we have to clean up the image of our Rottweilers , which has been so tarnished in recent years . |
| 15 | The leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement ) has been largely discredited in far-right circles by the recent scandal over his relations with an glamorous English-language newspaper columnist . |
| 16 | It is well known that , apart from its basalts , the Newark Group of the eastern seaboard of the United States is exactly like the Trias of north-west Europe , and both are now known to have been largely deposited in fault-controlled basins . |
| 17 | Skil , like several other traditional power tool manufacturers , has realised that the outdoor market has been largely untapped in recent years . |
| 18 | The interior is more elaborate , but has also been more altered in later ages . |
| 19 | This subsector is recognized as another growing one and it has been further differentiated in recent years by the recognition of a specifically educational , volume travel market . |
| 20 | All of us , during the time that we have been directly engaged in these matters , have found it easier to make progress when the media have not been looking over our shoulders and breathing on the backs of our necks . |
| 21 | English hill forts and medieval towns have been extensively excavated in recent years , and a new dimension has been added to our knowledge of them ; in this the Biddles have been the incomparable pioneers in their excavations at Winchester — but many other cities have made a major contribution , including York and Lincoln and Oxford . |
| 22 | Indeed the relationship between landscape and the arts has been extensively explored in recent years , and Olwig ( 1984 ) Pocock ( 1981 ) and Relph ( 1981 ) have shown how many of our values are derived from such sources , notably humanism and literature . |
| 23 | Thus , UDC has been extensively employed in special libraries and information centres in locations all over the world since the early 1900s . |
| 24 | The aura of compulsion in the public child care services has been extensively analysed in recent years . |
| 25 | Launched by Mayer and Timms and continued by , among others , Sainsbury and his colleagues at the University of Sheffield , this new approach to the evaluation of social work has revealed previously uncharted areas of knowledge , and has been extensively reviewed in recent years ( Sainsbury , 1980 ; Craig , 1981 ; Rees and Wallace , 1982 ; Fisher , 1983 ) . |
| 26 | The interwar debate over economic policy has , of course , been extensively researched in recent years , and Keynes 's contributions are well documented . |
| 27 | This is a significant area of importance in the Catholic school and has been clearly expressed in several documents but attention is drawn to Position Paper 4 ( Catholic Education Commission ) . |
| 28 | Although the local authority was sympathetic to her problem , the sum of money available to it for discretionary grants had been severely cut in recent years , so it could not see its way to helping her further . |
| 29 | When I approached the Newcastle local education authority about one of the constituents to whom I have referred , I was told that the city council 's budget for discretionary awards had been severely cut in recent years . |
| 30 | It has been substantially altered in later periods and has a largely classical , dull exterior . |