Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [ex0] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By early 1940 there had been a substantial drift-back of evacuees to the cities : something like 80% had returned . |
| 2 | In times gone by Dutch cattle were dual-purpose types , as meat was required from the dairy herd as well as milk , but since the early 1970s there has been an increasing use of American Holstein-Friesians in the Netherlands to increase the milk yields of the Dutch Friesian ( which has lower yields than the Holstein type but a higher proportion of solids in the milk ) . |
| 3 | Paul Hoggett ( 1987 ) , for example , has sought to explain changes in the organization of local government largely in terms drawn from debates within economics and the sociology of work ( see , for example , Massey , 1988a ; Meegan , 1988 ) , which suggests that since the early 1970s there has been a move away from Fordist towards post-Fordist methods of production . |
| 4 | In the early 1990s there has been indeed a reverse transition to capitalism in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe , and the issues this process raises will need to be considered more fully later ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 5 | Since the early 1960s there had been a movement for what had been described as organization development ( OD ) . |
| 6 | Since the early 1980s there had been a steady erosion of the pro-nuclear power base within both the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party . |
| 7 | But from the early 1980s there has been a growing feeling that policy and practice were beginning to diverge . |
| 8 | Since the early 1980s there has been a sustained fall in government spending as a proportion of National Income ( see Table 15.2 ) . |
| 9 | Since the late 1970s there has been a marked tightening of the laws which regulate public order , public morality and porn in particular . |
| 10 | Since the late 1970's there has been something of a boom in British Rail 's passenger services , with over 150 new stations having been opened and several new services developed . |
| 11 | Since the late 1960s there has been a series of overlapping periods of local government reform , each of which helps to illustrate some key theoretical debates about the state . |
| 12 | Hence , since the late 1960s there has been a gradual erosion of the line between sales promotion and advertising . |
| 13 | From the late 1860s there had been repeated attempts to obtain greater state aid and recognition for science , in the wake of increased technical competition from Germany . |