Example sentences of "[verb] been [det] recent [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is from this stance that there has been much recent emphasis on subject depth in the training of teachers , and a virtual embargo on teaching for those with degrees in subjects ‘ not on the school timetable ’ . |
| 2 | There has been much recent work by psychologists and linguists on these early stages of acquisition that has direct relevance to pragmatics , but is not reviewed in this book ( see e.g. Ervin-Tripp & Mitchell-Kernan , 1977 ; Snow & Ferguson , 1977 Ochs & Schieffelin , 1979 ; and the critical account of such work in M. Atkinson , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | The chapter begins , then , by focusing on a phenomenon about which there has been much recent discussion — deindustrialization . |
| 4 | Moreover , there has been little recent research on what befalls older manual workers following redundancy , although the labour market has undergone a period of rapid change over the last few years ( one recent exception is Bytheway 1987 ) . |
| 5 | The result has been that recent chancellors have been able to give free rein to their tax-reforming ambitions . |
| 6 | He merely strengthens the conclusions of the three wise men , who think that there may have been some recent decline but who certainly did not atribute it to the national curriculum , as the hon. Gentleman did . |
| 7 | In regard to his relations with the Vietnamese de Lattre claimed that Bao Dai was the ablest statesman in Vietnam ; but perhaps rather spoilt things by adding that there had been several recent instances when Bao Dai ‘ had showed the proper co-operative spirit and , in some cases , even initiative ’ . |
| 8 | There have been many recent changes in government intervention programmes causing damaging uncertainty . |
| 9 | There have been some recent changes to the membership of the TCP . |
| 10 | There has to date been no detailed investigation of the pronunciation of black native speakers of LE : in fact there have been few recent studies of LE pronunciation . |
| 11 | Much has been written about the pure theory of public choice but , in spite of a few pioneering works ( the best known being Downs , An Economic Theory of Democracy and Olson , The Logic of Collective Action ) there have been few recent applications in political science . |
| 12 | Indeed there have been several recent cases ( for example , ones involving alleged sexual abuse ) in which wide-ranging injunctions have been issued to protect the welfare of children who may otherwise have been exposed to unwelcome publicity . |
| 13 | Although the incidence of gastric cancer is declining worldwide , especially in the developed countries of North America , Europe , and Japan , there have been several recent reports showing that there has been an increase in carcinomas of the cardia compared with carcinomas in the antrum . |