Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] in recent year " in BNC.
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| 31 | In what ways have the social security rights of the unemployed been curtailed in recent years ? |
| 32 | If investments have already been made in recent years , the average investor will not bother to make further improvements until energy prices begin to hurt . |
| 33 | Great strides have been made in recent years to offer greater choice and to personalise private rooms , but resources are never enough to provide the optimum living conditions for a comfortable and happy old age . |
| 34 | Large investments in this area also have been made in recent years , as indicated in Table 11.14 . |
| 35 | Considerable advances have been made in recent years in using computer models to understand the intellectual aspects of the human mind . |
| 36 | Early television cameras were large and the image of poor quality , but much progress has been made in recent years . |
| 37 | Nevertheless , much progress has been made in recent years . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Much has been written in recent years of the so-called " male menopause " . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | The study of social and economic aspects of early Anglo-Saxon society are still viewed as spin-offs from art-historical and technological study rather than topics worthy of treatment in their own right ; when thematic studies have been produced in recent years the themes have tended to remain based on site-types or artefacts rather than themes which may be more directly relevant to past human behaviour ( Wilson 1976a ) . |
| 43 | We shall start with a description of the banking system , and then proceed to consider the types of monetary policies that have been used in recent years , and their effects . |
| 44 | 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. |
| 45 | Almost all UK academic libraries attempt to orientate the new user to the services and stock of the library , and there are very few orientation methods which have not been used in recent years — lectures , seminars , tours ( guided and self-guided ) , video-tapes , slide-lectures , tape-slides , programmed instruction , posters , audio-tapes , games , computer-assisted instruction , and of course library guides . |
| 46 | It challenges some of the teaching methods that have been used in recent years and it suggests that schools should concentrate on commonsense , practical teaching . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | The world has been transformed in recent years . |
| 49 | A number have been closed in recent years . |
| 50 | 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 ) . |
| 51 | But they have been replaced in recent years by unknowns in a series of changes designed to breathe new life into the programme . |
| 52 | But they have been replaced in recent years by unknowns . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | The Old Mill , at the west end of the village , was still operative until the early years of the Second World War , and the New Mill at the east end , which lost its sails in a gale so severe that parts of them were found in the next village , has been restored in recent years and is now a very attractive dwelling . |
| 55 | Several historic buildings around this area at the top of the High Street have been restored in recent years as student residences . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | A succession of rescheduling deals , known by the places — Toronto , Trinidad — in which creditors dreamt them up , have been proposed in recent years . |
| 58 | ( It has been republished in recent years with a preface by Sir Keith Joseph . ) |
| 59 | 7.2.1 At present , general practitioners are free to refer to the hospital and consultant of their choice , although in practice this freedom has been restricted in recent years , partly because of health authorities ' reluctance to accept cross-boundary patients . |
| 60 | The Board decided to undertake a project on accounting for capital instruments in view of the increasing number and variety of capital instruments which have been introduced in recent years . |