Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | A children s adventure playground has been built in recent years , and the field is well used by the village football and cricket teams . |
| 2 | So much has been written in recent years about Ralph Sarich 's Orbital two-stroke engine that our award for technical innovation might appear somewhat tardy . |
| 3 | Much has been written in recent years of the so-called " male menopause " . |
| 4 | A good deal has been written in recent years about Primitive Catholicism , the tendency apparent even within the New Testament period itself to domesticate the Holy Spirit , to make him the perquisite of the Church . |
| 5 | One particularly important technique that has been developed in recent years is the inverse scattering method of Belinskii and Zakharov ( 1978 , 1979 ) which had previously been developed as a soliton technique . |
| 6 | Another solution-generating technique that has been developed in recent years is that associated with Bäcklund transformations . |
| 7 | But a formidable argument has been developed in recent years by leading academic lawyers that this stream of authority should be the subject of reinterpretation to reveal a different line of thought pointing to the conclusion that money paid to a public authority pursuant to an ultra vires demand should be repayable , without the necessity of establishing compulsion , on the simple ground that there was no consideration for the payment . |
| 8 | Sometimes this seemed indicated , as when he told the legislature they must beware ‘ When we are freeing ourselves from one form of imperialism [ against those who would ] … bind us to another one which would swiftly undo all the work that has been done in recent years to foster … a free and independent nation ’ ; ‘ As we would not have British masters , so we would not have Russian masters . ’ |
| 9 | This is partly due to the privatization programme which has been implemented in recent years and has reduced the number of public corporations . |
| 10 | The Cluanie Inn is a fine hotel in a splendid old building , which has been extended in recent years so sensitively , soon it will be difficult for passers-by to tell the old from the new . |
| 11 | A flight from positivism has been witnessed in recent years in the social sciences , and the argument appears to be now widely accepted that since knowledge is never the direct product of experience . |
| 12 | According to David Hume , the subject of the next chapter , Berkeley 's account of abstract ideas was ‘ one of the greatest and most valuable discoveries that has been made of late years in the republic of letters ’ . |
| 13 | Early television cameras were large and the image of poor quality , but much progress has been made in recent years . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , much progress has been made in recent years . |
| 15 | For the reasons explained above , the interest in script recognition systems has been expanding in recent years . |
| 16 | I draw his attention to the fact that we are now net exporters of televisions whereas we were net importers under the Labour party and to the fact that motor output has been expanding in recent years whereas it was declining under Labour . |
| 17 | Lochranza has been ignored in recent years since the only crossing to Arran is now at Brodick . |
| 18 | A lot of encouragement has been given in recent years to the idea of increasing one 's roses by making cuttings — almost proposing it seems , that it is a way of avoiding the cost of buying new plants . |
| 19 | Much thinking has been given in recent years to the use of instruments as well as voices in worship . |
| 20 | Considerable attention has been given in recent years to policies directed at training young people ( YTS , apprenticeship reform ) and the need to invest more as a nation in training in the interests of increased productivity . |
| 21 | However , enthusiasm for mazes has been renewed in recent years and , with over 100 , Britain now has more mazes open to the public than any other European country . |
| 22 | Guests saw how the plant has been upgraded over recent years and capacity increased from 45,000 to 70,000 tonnes . |
| 23 | Much has been achieved in recent years . |
| 24 | However , a great deal has been achieved in recent years and I shall always be proud of the Department and more importantly its employees . |
| 25 | Given the significance of the stratospheric ozone layer , concern regarding the effects of pollution of the stratosphere has been expressed in recent years . |
| 26 | One part of the Report which has been expanded from previous years is the section summarising the statistics of entries and results for National Certificate and Advanced Courses . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A new pension environment has been created in recent years by legislation designed to encourage individuals to arrange their own pensions . |
| 29 | Now th the the the way in which the budget has been prepared in previous years , has been maintain existing services . |
| 30 | 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 . |