Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] [prep] recent " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this in view the consensus among the agencies is that there will be some discounting , because nobody can ever get it exactly right , but nothing like what has been available in recent years . |
| 2 | So it has been subject to recent rigorous scrutiny by a series of government reports : the Audit Commission ( 1986 ) , the House of Commons Social Services Committee Report ( 1985 ) and the Griffiths Report ( 1986 ) which resulted in the 1989 White paper Caring for People . |
| 3 | Business at Texas has been disappointing in recent weeks after a good start to the year , chairman Cyril Stein said . |
| 4 | This , in theory , saves lives on the other side — a concern that has been rare in recent wars , but seems to carry some weight in this one . |
| 5 | Boro began with a 4–5–1 formation which has been successful in recent away games . |
| 6 | Solar changes were the main cause from 1750 to 1850 , but the greenhouse effect has been dominant in recent decades . |
| 7 | The pace of educational change has been swift in recent years . |
| 8 | Even though life has been tense in recent months , it 's still a strange feeling when the city you live in is transformed into a battlefield . |
| 9 | They say she 'd been depressed in recent days |
| 10 | TIMES may have been tough in recent years but matters have come to a fine pass when this distinguished theatre feels obliged to assemble a posse of actresses and two actors to perform what is basically a rather vulgar sketch and present it as a front length drama . |
| 11 | Relations between the two neighbouring states had been tense in recent years because of the Bougainville conflict . |
| 12 | Where snow depths increased rapidly in central and eastern districts , scores of vehicles and their occupants were trapped on busy highways where such conditions have been rare in recent years . |
| 13 | These questions have been central to recent studies and the answers may be unexpected . |
| 14 | Terrestrial telly appearances have been spasmodic in recent years , but Allen is currently busy filming his own series , I Love Keith Allen , for BSB . |
| 15 | Students have been vocal in recent years about the lack of supervision and support in the wards . |
| 16 | It is public knowledge that chief constables and police authorities have been concerned in recent years over the question of wastage of police officers ’ time in court . |
| 17 | He reacts strongly to any suggestion — and there have been several over recent months — that his emotional ups and downs are part of a manic-depressive syndrome . |
| 18 | We at Flight Refuelling Limited were very interested in Andrew Smith 's article on Centrifugal Launchers in the October issue ( p46 ) since we have been instrumental in recent years in developing the concept to routinely launch jet aircraft . |