Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] [vb pp] [prep] recent year " in BNC.
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| 1 | A children s adventure playground has been built in recent years , and the field is well used by the village football and cricket teams . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Much has been written in recent years of the so-called " male menopause " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One particularly important technique that has been developed in recent years is the inverse scattering method of Belinskii and Zakharov ( 1978 , 1979 ) which had previously been developed as a soliton technique . |
| 6 | Another solution-generating technique that has been developed in recent years is that associated with Bäcklund transformations . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Sometimes this seemed indicated , as when he told the legislature they must beware ‘ When we are freeing ourselves from one form of imperialism [ against those who would ] … bind us to another one which would swiftly undo all the work that has been done in recent years to foster … a free and independent nation ’ ; ‘ As we would not have British masters , so we would not have Russian masters . ’ |
| 9 | This is partly due to the privatization programme which has been implemented in recent years and has reduced the number of public corporations . |
| 10 | The Cluanie Inn is a fine hotel in a splendid old building , which has been extended in recent years so sensitively , soon it will be difficult for passers-by to tell the old from the new . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Early television cameras were large and the image of poor quality , but much progress has been made in recent years . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , much progress has been made in recent years . |
| 14 | Lochranza has been ignored in recent years since the only crossing to Arran is now at Brodick . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Much thinking has been given in recent years to the use of instruments as well as voices in worship . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | However , enthusiasm for mazes has been renewed in recent years and , with over 100 , Britain now has more mazes open to the public than any other European country . |
| 19 | Guests saw how the plant has been upgraded over recent years and capacity increased from 45,000 to 70,000 tonnes . |
| 20 | Much has been achieved in recent years . |
| 21 | However , a great deal has been achieved in recent years and I shall always be proud of the Department and more importantly its employees . |
| 22 | Given the significance of the stratospheric ozone layer , concern regarding the effects of pollution of the stratosphere has been expressed in recent years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A new pension environment has been created in recent years by legislation designed to encourage individuals to arrange their own pensions . |
| 25 | The importance of the BBFC has been enhanced in recent years by local licensing requirements for sex cinemas , which generally require that all films screened shall have been approved by the BBFC in its " adult " category , and by the rule that cable television companies and video shops shall only carry films which have been granted an appropriate BBFC certificate . |
| 26 | The form of monetary policy that has been favoured in recent years is the control of interest rates . |
| 27 | For example , it is now more than twenty years since team models of social service staff deployment began to be strongly advocated in the United States and , although actual research on this approach has been limited in recent years , good results were reported from the use of social service teams in a variety of settings , including mental hospitals ( Barker and Briggs , 1969 ) , public welfare departments ( Schwartz and Sample , 1967 ) and elsewhere ( Brieland et al . , |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The world has been transformed in recent years . |
| 30 | In addition , a new and powerful tool in the form of " spreading " for meiotic prophase analysis , has been introduced over recent years . |