Example sentences of "has [be] [vb pp] [prep] recent " in BNC.
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| 31 | The potential pathogenicity of free radicals has been emphasised by recent work which suggests that reactive oxygen metabolities are not just one of a number of mediators and cytokines involved in the inflammatory process in inflammatory bowel disease but may have a pivotal role by initiating the expression of genes controlling may other aspects of the inflammatory , immune , and acute phase response , by activation of the transcription factor NF-kΒ . |
| 32 | Given the significance of the stratospheric ozone layer , concern regarding the effects of pollution of the stratosphere has been expressed in recent years . |
| 33 | This assumption was universally accepted until recently by prehistorian and anthropologists , but has been refuted in recent studies of hunters and gatherers . |
| 34 | The problem has been exacerbated by recent stringent cuts . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | A new pension environment has been created in recent years by legislation designed to encourage individuals to arrange their own pensions . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | BRITISH Telecom complains it has been plagued in recent weeks with claims that chairman Iain Vallance is resigning . |
| 39 | The form of monetary policy that has been favoured in recent years is the control of interest rates . |
| 40 | The Mirror has been beset in recent weeks with rumours and reports that it was about to be taken over . |
| 41 | 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 . , |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | A Labour campaign document championed the ‘ traditional values and firm foundations of the mid-Staffordshire way of life ’ and complained that its ‘ serenity … has been shattered in recent times ’ by crime . |
| 44 | 'You are sure there is no marker … no signs that the grave has been tended in recent months ? ’ |
| 45 | The world has been transformed in recent years . |
| 46 | Weather permitting outdoor nets will be held on April 8 and 9 at Boldon , where the wicket has been transformed in recent seasons . |
| 47 | It is significant that MicroGeneSys gp 160 has been excluded from recent trials of prophylactic vaccines . |
| 48 | In addition , a new and powerful tool in the form of " spreading " for meiotic prophase analysis , has been introduced over recent years . |
| 49 | It is in this general climate that community policing has been reintroduced in recent years in many forces in Great Britain with the expressed intention of improving both crime prevention and relations between the police and the community ( cf. Gordon 1987 ) . |
| 50 | The ancient Penny Hedge ceremony , which dates from feudal times and has been promoted in recent times by the English Tourist Board , takes place in Whitby tomorrow . |
| 51 | Galbraith ( 1983 ) outlines the aims and methods of contact tracing which has been used in recent years in the UK in relation to sexually transmitted disease and tuberculosis , and during limited outbreaks of typhoid fever , diphtheria and Lassa fever ; and Brookbanks & Hampstead ( 1987 ) describe contact tracing related to hepatitis B. |
| 52 | This is the approach on which most of the effort — and the money — has been spent in recent decades . |
| 53 | Much of the research and theory which has informed our educational methodology has been superseded in recent times both in psychology and linguistics . |
| 54 | There is sixteenth-century orthographic evidence , which we shall further discuss in chapter 5 , that suggests some distribution of low vowel realizations for /Ε/; in London English of the period : it seems possible that this pattern of lowering of historic short vowels has been overtaken in recent standard English and Central Scots by a pattern of raising and ( in the latter case ) lengthening . |
| 55 | Moreover , the distinction between services and manufacturing has been exaggerated over recent years by the growth of leasing [ Rybczynski , 1982 ] . |
| 56 | As we shall see , the latter system has been modified in recent years , but the basic principle upon which the ‘ pool ’ rests remains unchanged , namely that the cost of public sector higher education must be shared among all the local authorities . |
| 57 | The principal investigators will be responsible for interviewing key informants about the way the system has been modified in recent years . |
| 58 | Of the constituent countries of the UK , Northern Ireland had a considerable degree of devolved government but this has been modified in recent years pending resolution of Ireland 's partition problems . |
| 59 | This has been underlined by recent proposed UK Budget changes which have abolished tax reliefs for UK exploration and development . |
| 60 | The gravity of the situation has been heightened by recent management turmoil . |