Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] recent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite its importance and grade II* listing , the treatment it has received in recent years has been disgraceful , and it is to be hoped a great many lessons will have been learnt about how to deal with irresponsible owners of such important listed buildings . |
| 2 | It would seem that the restoration profession has not been able to keep its nerve in the face of the rapidly growing attention it has received in recent years , and is reacting in an undisciplined way . |
| 3 | ‘ The number of people becoming unemployed has eased over recent months and more people are leaving unemployment and getting back to work , ’ she said . |
| 4 | The story enshrined the belief that has developed in recent years that people who place bolts are villains who have no place on British soil . |
| 5 | Its reputation as the most beautiful bay on the west coast of Scotland has developed in recent years , not fostered by press and media publicity but by the enthusiastic recommendations of those who have been there . |
| 6 | Before we have had the opportunity to vote on that policy , the autumn statement has informed us that the Government will not promote training or fill the training gap that has developed in recent years . |
| 7 | In this programme we are going to look at the way in which British music has developed in recent years and its relationship to that produced by Continental Europe . |
| 8 | Budhoo asserts that the IMF and World Bank are key elements in an economic order that is deepening Third World poverty , the debt crisis , and a flight of capital from developing to developed countries which has soared in recent decades : in 1986 it amounted to well over $30 billion from the Caribbean and Latin America alone . |
| 9 | About £1 million has been raised for charity by the display and reproduction of the watercolours which the Prince of Wales has painted in recent years but the exhibition which opens to the public today is his first one-man show in Scotland . |
| 10 | From the number of lengthy interviews she has given in recent weeks , it seems pretty obvious that the opposition has been playing the Prime Minister 's game — she clearly intended to hold an election next month . |
| 11 | The response to this ‘ illogicality ’ — which is , of course , the very problem with the law of involuntary manslaughter too — has varied in recent English proposals . |
| 12 | That batch , the most intriguing of all , has included in recent months five members of the Grand Slam squad — Leonard , who is recovering well from a neck operation but must rest , Morris , Pears , Rodber and Heslop . |
| 13 | In particular , TV buying has come in recent years to be regarded as something of a separate skill — arguably to the detriment of the media operations of agencies as a whole . |
| 14 | Pressure for the conversion or redevelopment of historic houses and estates in financial difficulties has grown in recent years and is causing concern to those wishing to preserve the traditional countryside . |
| 15 | I want to suggest that there are three areas in which our understanding of writing has grown in recent years . |
| 16 | England team manager , Keith Fletcher , said : ‘ I 'm delighted for him and it is noticeable how his confidence has grown in recent weeks . |
| 17 | Unlike previous education secretaries , he has built on recent changes and amassed a far wider range of powers before setting his plans in motion . |
| 18 | The imprisoned Mr Mandela has met in recent months more than a dozen of the chieftains and assorted dignitaries — his Xhosa wife , Winnie , among them - who were on the podium . |
| 19 | Inflation in producer prices ( as opposed to retail prices ) has risen in recent months ; surveys of business opinion suggest that inflation in manufactured-goods prices is falling sharply . |
| 20 | The number of students successfully changing fields has risen in recent years and now stands at 30 per cent of the intake . |
| 21 | It has suffered in recent years from heavy traffic which the new by — pass will alleviate , but the old market town which I remember from forty-odd years ago is fast becoming yet a multiple retailers ' outlet . |
| 22 | The retired docker 's health has suffered in recent years and he has trouble getting up the stairs at their maisonette . |
| 23 | The retired docker 's health has suffered in recent years and he has trouble getting up the stairs at their maisonette . |
| 24 | Fujitsu says that the number of foreign users has tripled in recent months and that 21 groups outside Japan are linked to the computers . |
| 25 | Interest in this field has expanded in recent years , along with interest in speech recognition and optical character recognition ( OCR ) , especially with the advances in technology . |
| 26 | ‘ Rothman 's has expanded in recent years despite a ban on cigarette advertising on television , at the cinema and on hoardings outside school gates . ’ |
| 27 | This growth has accelerated in recent years , much of it taking place in the 1970s and it has been concentrated more in the higher levels of the education system . |
| 28 | We found that in areas of Southern Norway and Sweden , and areas of Scotland where there are hard granite rocks and thin soils , that many of the lakes and streams have shown er a progressive acidification since the industrial revolution , and that this has accelerated in recent years , until about ten years ago , when er the emissions of So2 from the U K , particularly fell , about , between about nineteen seventy and er today of about thirty or fell forty per cent drop . |
| 29 | At the same time , the concept of the unitary individual subject , on which he relies , should come under fire — as it has done in recent years , under the influence of post-structuralist thought . |
| 30 | The Prime Minister gave no hint during her performance in the Commons yesterday that her language at Strasbourg will be any less caustic than the manner she has adopted at recent Commonwealth summits . |