Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [prep] recent [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More specific economic policies , which have been widely discussed in recent years , fit within this tendency towards an autocratic state . |
| 2 | President Jorge Serrano Elias on May 20 publicly dismissed the possibility of a military coup , rumours of which had been widely circulating in recent weeks . |
| 3 | Our resorts , in the quieter bays of the Bodrum Peninsula , are little affected by recent developments . |
| 4 | For the most part , however , the various reassessments have not led to a complete rejection of Marxist theory , but to lively controversy about , and substantial revision of , some of its central concepts — those of class , party , ideology , the state , the capitalist mode of production , the transition to socialism — in the course of which Marxism has been greatly influenced by recent work in the social sciences and the philosophy of science . |
| 5 | Yet this is becoming increasingly difficult as the numbers of new council houses being built have been greatly reduced in recent years , while many have been sold off by Conservative councils . |
| 6 | Within the National Parks , all land use surveys have shown how their landscapes have been much altered in recent years by the advance of agriculture and forestry ( Leonard , 1980 ) although as Table 8.2 shows , both National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONBs ) still contain very few urban areas ( Anderson , 1980 ) . |
| 7 | Both phrases have been much invoked in recent weeks as in : ‘ Mulroney has driven the Last Spike into our National Dream . ’ |
| 8 | Key words have been much used in recent years in the retrieval of information . |
| 9 | Here in the UK , we have to clean up the image of our Rottweilers , which has been so tarnished in recent years . |
| 10 | Skil , like several other traditional power tool manufacturers , has realised that the outdoor market has been largely untapped in recent years . |
| 11 | As for helmets , I have never been convinced that they have much to offer , and my views are broadly confirmed by recent reviews in the CTC magazine and the journal ‘ New Cyclist ’ ( neither organisation being anti-helmet ; the reviews are widely based and fair ) . |
| 12 | Insurance , both life and non-life , has been rapidly expanding in recent years and this is a continuing trend as people and companies become more risk-conscious and because of the growth in the pensions industry . |
| 13 | This subsector is recognized as another growing one and it has been further differentiated in recent years by the recognition of a specifically educational , volume travel market . |
| 14 | The scheme — intended to let the public draw directly on scientific knowledge — has been partly prompted by recent panic over the contamination of food by listeria and salmonella , public concern about how to store and cook food , and issues such as food preservation through irradiation . |
| 15 | English hill forts and medieval towns have been extensively excavated in recent years , and a new dimension has been added to our knowledge of them ; in this the Biddles have been the incomparable pioneers in their excavations at Winchester — but many other cities have made a major contribution , including York and Lincoln and Oxford . |
| 16 | Indeed the relationship between landscape and the arts has been extensively explored in recent years , and Olwig ( 1984 ) Pocock ( 1981 ) and Relph ( 1981 ) have shown how many of our values are derived from such sources , notably humanism and literature . |
| 17 | The aura of compulsion in the public child care services has been extensively analysed in recent years . |
| 18 | The problem has , in fact , been extensively argued during recent years . |
| 19 | Launched by Mayer and Timms and continued by , among others , Sainsbury and his colleagues at the University of Sheffield , this new approach to the evaluation of social work has revealed previously uncharted areas of knowledge , and has been extensively reviewed in recent years ( Sainsbury , 1980 ; Craig , 1981 ; Rees and Wallace , 1982 ; Fisher , 1983 ) . |
| 20 | The interwar debate over economic policy has , of course , been extensively researched in recent years , and Keynes 's contributions are well documented . |
| 21 | This point has been clearly demonstrated by recent reconsiderations of , for example , the nature of uneven regional development and economic under-development which show that both processes , whilst creating spatial patterns are , more fundamentally , outcomes of the operation of the economy rather than the result of autonomous geographical factors . |
| 22 | Although the local authority was sympathetic to her problem , the sum of money available to it for discretionary grants had been severely cut in recent years , so it could not see its way to helping her further . |
| 23 | When I approached the Newcastle local education authority about one of the constituents to whom I have referred , I was told that the city council 's budget for discretionary awards had been severely cut in recent years . |
| 24 | These ratios were found to be mainly associated with recent returns on equity , growth rates and debt/equity ratios . |
| 25 | Thank you Mr Mayor , erm I I want to be very brief Mr Mayor , that the debate on houses and rent increases has taken place and has been well aired over recent weeks and I do n't have any intention tonight of re-debating those issues . |
| 26 | The question of whether social security benefits give rise to a ‘ culture of dependency ’ has been hotly debated in recent years . |
| 27 | In large scale industry ( such as the Automotive Industry ) the use of cordless tools has been steadily increasing in recent years so it is by no means novel technology . |
| 28 | There are , for example , no elected fascist representatives in the United States , the dollar has been steadily devalued in recent years , the country 's borders are more open , and unemployment is significantly lower than in Europe . |
| 29 | Notwithstanding these observations on the effectiveness of policy implementation , the entire approach to selected settlements has been heavily criticized in recent years . |
| 30 | The relevance of community-based approaches at this level is also illustrated in recent literature ( O'Hagan , 1989 ; Smale et al . , |