Example sentences of "[noun pl] has [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The number of designated clean air zones has increased steadily during the last 25 years , and Table 15–1 shows the dramatic reduction in smoke pollution in the UK . |
| 32 | Our knowledge and ability to treat pelvic-floor disorders has benefited enormously from the availability of newer diagnostic and surgical approaches . |
| 33 | Kuwait , with its huge oil reserves is second only to Saudi Arabia 's and because of its limited domestic needs has moved significantly into ‘ the downstream ’ part of the business through the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation ( KPC ) . |
| 34 | The number of christenings has fallen dramatically in recent years ; parents would rather let the child decide about religion for himself , and many vicars are unwilling to conduct christenings for people who are not regular churchgoers . |
| 35 | Thursday afternoon CPC bookstall Julian Critchley MP The Palace Of Varieties has shot straight into the best-seller list . |
| 36 | Most of the work done in recent years has impinged only on specialists . |
| 37 | Television coverage of homosexuality in recent years has increased considerably as a result of AIDS and , more recently , Clause 28 . |
| 38 | In fact the sequence of events was much more complex than that , although , as discussed earlier , many former patients were discharged to inadequate accommodation without aftercare , and progressive reduction of psychiatric beds over the past thirty years has contributed significantly to the problem . |
| 39 | The fact that we have had a nuclear deterrent for a number of years has added materially to our security and I believe that we should continue to sustain that deterrent . |
| 40 | This is partly due to the relative costs of production and the public 's growing recognition that other countries can make good rugs ; but perhaps the main reason is simply that the output of workshops has increased dramatically in recent years . |
| 41 | Air pollution is still a major cause , he said : " Exposure to sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxides has fallen dramatically in the past decade , but forest ecosystems react only gradually . " |
| 42 | Three fish docks were built and now it is Britain 's leading fishing port , though the number of boats has declined rapidly in recent years . |
| 43 | A : The number of pieces of ware needed from the Johnson Brothers factories has decreased considerably over recent years . |
| 44 | Unfortunately , our use of plastics for containers has increased dramatically in the Western World . |
| 45 | Agricultural policy which involves paying the highest prices for the fattest lamb and cattle has changed little during the last 10 years . |
| 46 | In Britain support for families has focused less on parent education and teaching parenting skills and more on a range of informal support services ( De'Ath , 1982 , 1983 ) . |
| 47 | A CAMPAIGNER for disabled people 's rights has reacted angrily to plans to ban disabled drivers from Darlington town centre . |
| 48 | This creeping destruction of workers ' rights has spread rapidly from journalists to printers , from tanker drivers to docks , telecom managers to mines , and lecturers to insurance staff . |
| 49 | An interesting trend in recent years is that the balance of support for the DMS has moved away from the private sector of industry and business towards the public sector , especially among the large nationalized companies . |
| 50 | The case for urgent reforms has got nowhere in Congress . |
| 51 | However , in recent years the number and diversity of these studies has grown substantially to such a point where evidence from America , Japan , Europe and Australia all point to a link between moderate drinking and a significant reduction in death rates from heart disease * . |
| 52 | The number of police officers has increased enormously during the past 10 years . |
| 53 | A group of academics and intellectuals has gathered together under the title Charter 88 to campaign for a written constitution to rectify the ‘ implausibility ’ of the country 's current protection of liberty and freedom . |
| 54 | The number of these tribesmen has decreased considerably in recent years ( due largely to the constant encroachment of urbanized civilization and their forced amalgamation into larger tribal groupings ) , resulting in a decline in both the number and variety of genuine Turkoman rugs coming onto the market . |
| 55 | The conceptual map of the basic medical sciences has changed remarkably in recent years with developments in immunology , molecular genetics , biotechnology and the neurosciences , to name a few . |
| 56 | It seems as if the impulse for the production of avant-gardist gestures has receded rapidly into the past . |
| 57 | Under the present director , Geoffrey Morgan , a soft-spoken Welshman whose main outside interest is silkworms , the list of names has moved away from the Reform Club and further out into Middle England , although it is still a very long way short of representing a cross-section of the population . |
| 58 | The trade in wild animals as pets and status symbols has increased dramatically over the last century to the point at which many animals are now very rare and in danger of being wiped out . |
| 59 | Previous research on government-industry relations has concentrated either on rapidly declining industries such as steel or high technology sectors such as microelectronics ; relatively little work has been done on the chemicals industry . |
| 60 | The literature on home-school-community relations has concentrated mainly on parental participation in school , rather than on school participation in the ‘ communities ’ of the school . |