Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the role of fibrinogen in platelet aggregation has been recognised for many years ( Born & Cross , 1964 ; Brinkhaus et al , 1965 ) . |
| 2 | Salicylate nephrotoxicity has been recognised for many years . |
| 3 | A children s adventure playground has been built in recent years , and the field is well used by the village football and cricket teams . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Much has been written in recent years of the so-called " male menopause " . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These major companies are very stable , with an organisational structure which has been developed over many years and , like the Japanese Zaibatsu , they have a large-core business which is able to withstand changes in the market place . |
| 8 | It may be related to the size , complexity and nature of the company 's operation and therefore to the organisational structure which has been developed over many years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Another solution-generating technique that has been developed in recent years is that associated with Bäcklund transformations . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Hemp has been grown for many years on the Continent and this decision will allow UK farmers to gain a share of the market currently occupied by our EC partners . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ To disturb them after all the work that has been done over many years would be a disaster . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | This is partly due to the privatization programme which has been implemented in recent years and has reduced the number of public corporations . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Considerable research effort has been invested over many years into both speech recognition and speech understanding , but very few robust implementations have been developed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | Early television cameras were large and the image of poor quality , but much progress has been made in recent years . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , much progress has been made in recent years . |
| 22 | Its bid to become a polytechnic has been supported for many years by Conservative Members from Derbyshire . |
| 23 | The Mill has been renovated after 12 years of doing nothing . |
| 24 | Mary has been retired for eight years after 33 years ' service in the Bank at Scarinish . |
| 25 | Lochranza has been ignored in recent years since the only crossing to Arran is now at Brodick . |
| 26 | This approach , a very recent development for credit in this country ( though of course it has been accepted for many years as the basis of car insurance ratings ) , started in America . |
| 27 | A need for adequate protection in the field of residential care , and to a lesser extent in relation to the provision of domiciliary services , has been advocated for some years . |
| 28 | Road pricing , which involves charging drivers directly for their use of the road network , has been advocated for several years as a means of reducing congestion and environmental impact . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Much thinking has been given in recent years to the use of instruments as well as voices in worship . |