Example sentences of "[adj] year [pron] have [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly the very dry weather we have had over the last two summers has meant that even young bulbs have not been able to bulk up their energy supplies and so the following year they have been unable to produce flowers . |
| 2 | Cos other years we 've been two days behind with orders you know and |
| 3 | In recent years there had been considerable debate about the nature of the railways ' contribution to economic growth . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | In recent years there has been increasing interest in the evaluation of performance in the public sector of the economy . |
| 8 | In recent years there has been more emphasis on the objectives of library services , and less upon quantitative measures . |
| 9 | In recent years there has been growing concern about the effects of alcohol and discussion of the most effective forms of treatment response for excessive alcohol use . |
| 10 | In recent years there has been growing attention to the effects of different types of employment regulation on the structure of labour markets and performance of employment relations . |
| 11 | In recent years there has been remarkable expansion in the provision of humanitarian assistance for refugees by internationally based NGOs backed by major donors . |
| 12 | In recent years there has been considerable discussion of the role of the Sovereign in the eventuality of a hung Parliament , such as that of 1929–31 , and the general conclusion has been that her role is essentially a passive one . |
| 13 | In recent years there has been considerable interest in assessing the general feasibility of predicting future violence and dangerousness in individuals and families ( see Parton and Parton , 1989 ; Parton and Small , 1989 ) . |
| 14 | In recent years there has been considerable discussion of the extent to which university research addresses industrial needs . |
| 15 | In recent years there has been some evidence that they are even more evasive , changing identity by oscillating from one type of neutrino to another . |
| 16 | In recent years there has been some awareness on the part of planners of the role of rural planning policies in exaggerating the scarcity of rural housing and achieving comparatively little for those in greatest housing need . |
| 17 | In recent years there have been many attacks on what is sometimes called the classic realist novel on similar grounds : that far from being a means of communication it is a means of ideological domination and repression , reproducing on the cultural level the processes of industrial capitalism , making its audience passive consumers , reconciling them to their alienated state instead of liberating them from it , by making it appear normal or natural . |
| 18 | MI6 remains to this day a secret organisation that does not officially exist despite the fact that in recent years there have been numerous books written about its activities . |
| 19 | In recent years there have been three important historical studies of information in business and large-scale organisations . |
| 20 | In recent years there have been some significant advances in studying the auditory system , especially in the analysis of computational maps that recode intensity and phase differences in the two ears into the representation of auditory space ( Knudsen , DuLac , and Esterly 1987 ) , but this work has focused on subcortical mechanisms . |
| 21 | In recent years there have been feminist theologians who , far from believing there to be a gap to be bridged between past and present , have emphasized rather the continuity to be found in the situation of women . |
| 22 | although in recent years there have been significant improvements in the provision of research and library facilities for M.P.s these still lag fir behind those available to their counterparts abroad . |
| 23 | In recent years there have been significant statutory interventions protecting the consumer . |
| 24 | Our knowledge of life histories of most deep-sea ophiuroids is poor ( see Tyler , 1980 for a review ) although in recent years there have been several accounts of the reproductive biology of the more common species ( Schoener 1968 , 1972 : Tyler & Gage 1979 , 1980 , 1982 ; Gage & Tyler , 1981 , 1982 ) together with some work on the post-larval stages ( Schoener 1967 , 1969 ; Gage & Tyler 1981 ) . |
| 25 | In recent years there have been several judicial attempts to define the scope of the doctrine . |
| 26 | Yet research into contemporary demography and statistics soon demonstrates that in recent years there have been dramatic changes in trends and patterns of marriage , divorce and cohabitation . |
| 27 | In recent years it has been possible to study the mechanisms involved in the regulation postprandial gall bladder motility in detail because of the development of sensitive and specific radioimmunoassays for measurement of CCK and the availability of ultrasonography and cholescintigraphy as non-invasive methods to measure human gall bladder motility . |
| 28 | As has been pointed out , however , In recent years it has been impossible to tell where natural justice stops and fairness begins . |
| 29 | ‘ In recent years I have been impressed by the standard of speech training in various parts of the province and it was the same again in Ballyclare where a number of talented young people were on stage . ’ |
| 30 | Over New Year I had been able to escape a constant anxiety that time was running out . |