Example sentences of "years has [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen Mirren plays the role of Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison who for years has been the victim of sexual discrimination in the police force . |
| 2 | ‘ What has predominantly improved race relations in this country over the last 25 years has been the firm , fair immigration controls we have sustained throughout that period . |
| 3 | A particular feature in recent years has been the polarisation of power away from local education authorities ( LEAs ) to the centre ( government ) and to the periphery ( schools ) . |
| 4 | An ominous dimension in recent years has been the use of public order legislation as a means with which to repress the expression of sexual preferences . |
| 5 | The major change of emphasis in the past 25 years has been the breakdown of the bookfund into headings representing functional or user criteria rather than into geographical headings . |
| 6 | A very useful development in insulin therapy in recent years has been the fixed-dose mixture of insulin , either 30 per cent short-acting and 70 per cent intermediate-acting ( Mixtard ) or equal parts of the two insulins ( Initard ) . |
| 7 | The major challenge which has faced the Teacher Placement Service over the two years has been the issue of teacher release . |
| 8 | Perhaps their most important contribution for Sussex birds in recent years has been the vast increase in the provision of food at bird-tables and feeding stations . |
| 9 | An outstanding feature of the UK economy in recent years has been the rapid growth in employment in the service industries . |
| 10 | One of the most exciting developments in biology over the past few years has been the identification of the specific genes that allow some viruses to cause cancer . |
| 11 | Finally physical chemistry ; here the most important advance in the past 25 years has been the study of the interaction of matter and radiation : spectroscopy . |
| 12 | The reason for the popularity of the de-clawing operation in recent years has been the concern of ( usually wealthy ) owners for their soft furnishings . |
| 13 | Rhetorically , the central organising theme of the debates on the inner city in Britain over the last three years has been the problem of exporting the successes of the rest of the nation to this extraordinary conceptual space . |
| 14 | By far the most popular location in recent years has been the Netherlands , for the very good reason that it has for some time offered by far the best deal . |
| 15 | One of the most significant developments in English church life during the past fifteen years has been the mushrooming of home groups . |
| 16 | A major improvement in recent years has been the inclusion in such reports of analysis and interpretation of the data ( see , for instance , Cook and Dacre 1985 ) . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most important and far-reaching change in nursing in the past ten years has been the wholesale move away from the subservient , passive role of the nurse who was accountable to doctors for any treatments she undertook , and to nursing supervisors for standards of personal conduct and discipline . |
| 18 | Without doubt , the biggest change in primary education in the past ten years has been the proliferation of guidelines and schemes of work . |
| 19 | One of the most exciting developments in recent years has been the degree of convergence between models of visual function built up by computer scientists trying to figure out how to build machines that can see and physiologists trying to work out what different parts of the visual system do . |
| 20 | One of the most provocative findings in recent years has been the degree of parallel organization hidden within individual anatomical regions . |
| 21 | An important new factor which has upset many people 's sums over the past couple of years has been the state of the property market . |
| 22 | A feature of recent years has been the degree to which the differing agencies — HMI , the DES , Further Education Unit , and NBHS ( now renamed Skill : National Bureau for Students with Disabilities ) have worked together . |
| 23 | Afternoon visit to Lake Bogoria which in recent years has been the home of the lesser flamingo . |
| 24 | One of the greatest successes of the postwar years has been the containment of aggressive totalitarianism in Europe . |
| 25 | One particularly important feature in recent years has been the growth of manufacturing employment within rural areas . |
| 26 | One of the dominant social characteristics of Britain over the past fifty years has been the degree of upward social mobility of those whose parents held traditional working-class jobs . |
| 27 | In these cases the locational attraction of rural areas can be considerable , and one of the most remarkable locational shifts in manufacturing in recent years has been the closure of port-based , imported cane sugar processing plants in East London in favour of sugar beet processing factories in East Anglia ( Community Development Project 1977 ) . |
| 28 | For , as we shall see , one of the most obvious effects of the myth of judicial independence on sentencing practice over the years has been the extent to which sentencers have been left to police themselves according to their own rules arid principles . |
| 29 | Perhaps the most telling lesson of the past forty years has been the recognition that very different forms of life are built around essentially similar molecular mechanisms . |
| 30 | The fastest growing attraction in recent years has been the ‘ Jorvik Viking Centre ’ in York ( 0.9 million visits in 1986 ) owned by Heritage Projects Limited ( for full details , see pp. 4 and 5 above ) . |