Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Community psychiatric nurses help many patients return home and cope without the need for hospitalization , and their role has developed markedly in recent years as the emphasis has shifted towards the community . |
| 2 | One major subject area within the polytechnics that has developed considerably in recent years is that of teacher education . |
| 3 | From this history , it can therefore be seen that the scope , size and shape of the Burston site has altered considerably in that time as a result of the £4 million that has been spent over that period . |
| 4 | Hereford 's league form has fallen away in recent weeks ; one win in 11 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The laboratory , one of four run by the Science and Engineering Research Council , has come under increasing financial pressure as its £20m annual budget has fallen sharply in real terms . |
| 7 | For although the tide of imperialism has ebbed considerably in most of the remainder of the world , some of the Pacific islands are still too small and their governments too feeble to stand alone as independent states . |
| 8 | He should have taken the decision to allow women to be ordained instead of opening the issue to a damaging debate that has succeeded only in widening rifts within the Church . |
| 9 | The SDLP has polled well in rural areas , including Londonderry , a city now politically divided by the River Foyle . |
| 10 | In the language of political philosophy , power is deemed to be a concept that is ‘ essentially contested ’ which means that although the concept has featured prominently in political philosophy over the centuries and is now a major concern of organisation theorists we are still left with disputes over its meaning . |
| 11 | The extent to which the sector as a whole has grown dramatically in recent years is underlined in new figures produced for the government 's report by the research group , Graham Bannock and Partners . |
| 12 | However , its use in a wide variety of disciplines has grown dramatically in recent decades , to the point where it seems not only to be facilitating what was done before , but to be creating new possibilities . |
| 13 | However , while shoplifting occurred in the past , the extent of the crime has grown massively in recent years . |
| 14 | The scope of day and domiciliary care has grown sharply in recent years , although it is still woefully inadequate in relation to the demand for services , particularly the home help service . |
| 15 | The numbers of TNCs based in Third World countries , particularly the NICs , has grown rapidly in recent years , and some Third World TNCs are extremely large and wield considerable influence ( Lall , 1983 ) . |
| 16 | The use of CDs has grown rapidly in recent years . |
| 17 | The range of articles produced on the home and export markets has grown considerably in recent years . |
| 18 | ‘ Self-assessment of income tax has operated successfully in many countries , including the United States . |
| 19 | The reputation of Angelica Kauffman ( 1741–1807 ) has risen steadily in recent years , since she ceased to be regarded as a minor decorative artist and began to reassume the esteem accorded her by her contemporaries . |
| 20 | The proportion of children born outside marriage has risen dramatically in recent years . |
| 21 | So protectionism , I mean there 's still protectionism if you 're taxing your exports , it 's a t so protectionism is , is not er , a recent phenomenon , however , the extent of protectionism has risen dramatically in this century , particularly since the Second World War . |
| 22 | The proportion of women in higher education has risen sharply in recent decades — one of the most visible gains in the egalitarian struggle — although in practice young female school-leavers are still less qualified than their male counterparts ( and this signifies , in this country , a truly parlous state of readiness for adult occupations ) ; while in the teaching profession itself , women have yet to achieve anything like parity at the higher levels , as college heads , directors of departments and university professors . |
| 23 | It has risen sharply in real terms , as the hon. Gentleman knows only too well . |
| 24 | In Swindon , a council report suggests the problem has risen twelvefold in recent years . |
| 25 | Another problem arises from the fact that most of the foreign exchange deposits have been made in Deutschemarks , and that the value of the Deutschemark has risen considerably in recent years compared with the value of the dollar . |
| 26 | But you 've probably noticed the ad count has risen considerably in recent months , due to the fact that we 've upped the pages to five and edited out some of the waffle ( which the waffler pays for , I might add ) in order to ensure that most ads make it into the desired issue . |
| 27 | Legal aid expenditure has risen rapidly in recent years , and the legal profession has repeatedly offered to work with the Government to control the rising costs of legal aid . |
| 28 | The cost of replacing your possessions has risen greatly in recent years . |
| 29 | We say goodbye in this issue to Kevin Chevis who has beavered away in Key Publishing 's Photo Department and whose work has graced the pages of FlyPast for the last three years . |
| 30 | South-west Scotland has suffered much in recent years at the hands of more persistent ‘ improvers ’ : tree-farmers . |