Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] recent [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warsaw Pact tanks have been fitted in recent years with additional armour , designed to explode when hit by an anti-tank missile , so neutralising its effect . |
| 2 | But it was the call for investment that aroused the most plain fears , and these have been compounded in recent days by a clutch of investments in Eastern Europe by big western manufacturers . |
| 3 | Those works include sculpture by Richard Deacon , Julian Opie , Grenville Davey and Richard Wentworth and a painting by Lisa Milroy and have been hung with recent purchases of contemporary art by Ashley Bickerton , Damien Hirst and other younger artists . |
| 4 | A Committee sponsored by the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government to " look at problems arising out of the apparent failure … of government and industry to work together effectively " argued that " industrialists have been justified in recent years in criticising the government for failing to provide a stable economic framework within which they can plan and invest in the long-term " . |
| 5 | Mr Steisel says annual savings of over $100m have been achieved in recent years . |
| 6 | I should also like to extend our sympathy to the relatives and friends of all those who have been killed in recent incidents in Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | At least 1,200 people have been killed in recent fighting . |
| 8 | They include Robert Ryman , Donald Judd , Sol LeWitt , Robert Mangold , Dan Graham , Lawrence Weiner ( who has created a new work for Dean Clough , Halifax ) , John Baldessari , Art and Language , Richard Long , Barry Flanagan , Mario Merz , Gerhard Richter and On Kawara , as well as other artists who enjoyed some popularity and recognition twenty-five years ago but whose careers have been ignored in recent times . |
| 9 | And though the protracted battles between Congress and the Bush administration which have been waged in recent years are unlikely , Clinton 's proposals could be changed significantly by Congress prior to enactment . |
| 10 | Managerial skills have been emphasised in recent reforms of the NHS . |
| 11 | Within the context of stationary axisymmetric space-times , many techniques have been developed in recent years by which new solutions may be obtained from initial vacuum solutions . |
| 12 | We are not to know that new methods of correlation will not he developed ( as spores , hystrichospheres , etc. , have been developed in recent years ) to correlate the least promising.looking formations , Ultimately perhaps we shall have a little black box into which we only have to pop our rock specimen for its age to he read automatically on a dial . |
| 13 | Great strides have been made in recent years to offer greater choice and to personalise private rooms , but resources are never enough to provide the optimum living conditions for a comfortable and happy old age . |
| 14 | Large investments in this area also have been made in recent years , as indicated in Table 11.14 . |
| 15 | Considerable advances have been made in recent years in using computer models to understand the intellectual aspects of the human mind . |
| 16 | Moreover , Dewey gave an undertaking that no drastic changes would ever be made in the allocation of numbers to subjects , although certain modifications have been made in recent editions . |
| 17 | These changes do reflect a recognition of the growing importance of part-time work ( which is where most of the new jobs have been created in recent years ) and a recognition that full-time work is difficult for many lone mothers to sustain , given their domestic responsibilities . |
| 18 | Piling on the confusion , Ramish Vassen , a Cape Town lawyer representing three of the prisoners , said he went yesterday to Pollsmoor prison , where they have been kept in recent years , to deliver a suit for one of his clients , Elias Motosaledi . |
| 19 | They have been targetted over recent years . |
| 20 | Two new Scottish memorials have been unveiled in recent months . |
| 21 | But they have been replaced in recent years by unknowns in a series of changes designed to breathe new life into the programme . |
| 22 | But they have been replaced in recent years by unknowns . |
| 23 | As you embark on the F-Plan you might have to work quite energetically to convince yourself that the supposed virtues of the old low-carbohydrate method of dieting have been disproved by recent research . |
| 24 | Numerous counts of winter flocks have been recorded in recent years , and gatherings of several thousands have been found regularly in most of the main areas of permanent grassland in the county , and in many coastal areas . |
| 25 | Indeed , no major studies of evacuation due to hazards have been undertaken in recent times and this is a widely recognized deficiency which no research funding body seems willing to rectify . |
| 26 | They are regularly stocked with rainbow and brown trout , and fish of up to 6lb 12 oz have been caught in recent years . |
| 27 | Few salmon are encountered in Loch Doon these days , but brown trout abound and some huge fish have been caught in recent years . |
| 28 | Throughout the report there is evidence that important lessons have been learnt from recent work on records of achievement and developments in graded assessment . |
| 29 | But although great strides have been taken in recent years to reduce the levels of dioxins in the environment , many governments recognise more research and monitoring is needed . |
| 30 | Both the current reforms and other possible changes which have been suggested in recent debates of the health service will be examined . |