Example sentences of "been [verb] in [adj] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure that you will agree that there should be a debate on the Court of Appeal system now that three major cases have been overturned in two years after substantial campaigns . |
| 2 | A flight from positivism has been witnessed in recent years in the social sciences , and the argument appears to be now widely accepted that since knowledge is never the direct product of experience . |
| 3 | Within the context of stationary axisymmetric space-times , many techniques have been developed in recent years by which new solutions may be obtained from initial vacuum solutions . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A lot of encouragement has been given in recent years to the idea of increasing one 's roses by making cuttings — almost proposing it seems , that it is a way of avoiding the cost of buying new plants . |
| 6 | Much thinking has been given in recent years to the use of instruments as well as voices in worship . |
| 7 | Considerable attention has been given in recent years to policies directed at training young people ( YTS , apprenticeship reform ) and the need to invest more as a nation in training in the interests of increased productivity . |
| 8 | A Committee sponsored by the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government to " look at problems arising out of the apparent failure … of government and industry to work together effectively " argued that " industrialists have been justified in recent years in criticising the government for failing to provide a stable economic framework within which they can plan and invest in the long-term " . |
| 9 | Of the constituent countries of the UK , Northern Ireland had a considerable degree of devolved government but this has been modified in recent years pending resolution of Ireland 's partition problems . |
| 10 | The importance of ‘ generic skills ’ has been stressed in recent years by the Manpower Services Commission ( now Training Agency ) as a flexible response to and preparation for a fast-changing economy . |
| 11 | They all have alluvial flood plains or levels of wet permanent pasture in which extensive flooding used to be of frequent occurrence , but many improvement schemes have been instituted in recent years with stretches of river being straightened and flood banks raised . |
| 12 | To some extent this latter advantage has been eroded in recent years by the tendency to go for late bookings , at least by the ‘ experienced ’ holiday-maker . |
| 13 | They operate under Royal Charters , appoint their own staff , decide on their own admissions policies and have traditionally had academic freedom in their teaching and research , though the last of these has arguably been eroded in recent years by the ‘ earmarking ’ of government funds for specific subjects , and the need to seek sponsors for particular projects . |
| 14 | Considerable advances have been made in recent years in using computer models to understand the intellectual aspects of the human mind . |
| 15 | This policy posed a general problem for the National WEA , which lacked a clear view on its partnership with other providers , and was an especially acute one for the District where important concessions had been made in earlier years to the Cambridge Board . |
| 16 | Provisions have been made in previous years for anticipated levels of unpaid Community Charge ( poll tax ) . |
| 17 | Much has been written in recent years of the so-called " male menopause " . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Derrida 's recognition of a tension created between the play of language and history has been matched in recent years by an attempt by some critics to force a polarisation between critical activities which embrace history from those which embrace linguistic theory . |
| 21 | Galbraith ( 1983 ) outlines the aims and methods of contact tracing which has been used in recent years in the UK in relation to sexually transmitted disease and tuberculosis , and during limited outbreaks of typhoid fever , diphtheria and Lassa fever ; and Brookbanks & Hampstead ( 1987 ) describe contact tracing related to hepatitis B. |
| 22 | As well as the case of Sweden , a good deal of interest has also been shown in recent years in certain features of industrial relations in West Germany and Yugoslavia . |
| 23 | It is in this general climate that community policing has been reintroduced in recent years in many forces in Great Britain with the expressed intention of improving both crime prevention and relations between the police and the community ( cf. Gordon 1987 ) . |
| 24 | But they have been replaced in recent years by unknowns in a series of changes designed to breathe new life into the programme . |
| 25 | But they have been replaced in recent years by unknowns . |
| 26 | The village is a typical ‘ street ’ type of community , with the original single line of houses having been augmented in recent years with additional housing developing along the back lanes , behind the Main Street . |
| 27 | Several historic buildings around this area at the top of the High Street have been restored in recent years as student residences . |
| 28 | Much of the material has been found in recent years in synagogues , many themselves in poor states of repair or inaccessible to scholars as they are now in private hands . |
| 29 | ( It has been republished in recent years with a preface by Sir Keith Joseph . ) |
| 30 | If Oman today is a relaxed and comfortable nation , it is because it has been led in 21 years from medieval seclusion to modern success . |