Example sentences of "been [verb] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This arrangement might well have been satisfactory , with some accommodation between the two sides being not too difficult to achieve , but for the rancour that had been aroused in recent years . |
| 3 | I am sure that you will agree that there should be a debate on the Court of Appeal system now that three major cases have been overturned in two years after substantial campaigns . |
| 4 | The form of monetary policy that has been favoured in recent years is the control of interest rates . |
| 5 | For example , it is now more than twenty years since team models of social service staff deployment began to be strongly advocated in the United States and , although actual research on this approach has been limited in recent years , good results were reported from the use of social service teams in a variety of settings , including mental hospitals ( Barker and Briggs , 1969 ) , public welfare departments ( Schwartz and Sample , 1967 ) and elsewhere ( Brieland et al . , |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Another solution-generating technique that has been developed in recent years is that associated with Bäcklund transformations . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Some six hundred hectares of that land is actually designated as greenbelt , but in addition within that a number of those areas are er prevented from development in perpetuity we 'd argue because a large part of that area has got a historic status as stray land , which is a form of common land , which means it 's actually not not available for any form of development , similarly the flood planes of the river Ouse in particular is for physical development reasons er prevented from development in many areas , and those of you who were here this weekend will have no noticed the reason why , it was a flooding that took that took place on the Ouse valley , in addition to those constraints , open space within the city is at a premium erm the city falls below the Emperface standard , erm by er something like erm half a hectare per thousand population , so compared with the Emperface standard of two point four per thousand , the city reaches a quite a generous erm categorization of the recreational space we have available , only a total of two hectares per thousand , therefore , and this is very relevant to the Greater York debate , erm , really the only land for development within the city is recycled land , there are limited number of er sites which have not been developed in recent years erm which can be identified for development , and are being identified for development in our draft local plan . |
| 13 | ‘ No new water supplies have been developed in 20 years . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Much thinking has been given in recent years to the use of instruments as well as voices in worship . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 " . |
| 18 | Colin Wilson , however , may have been justified in remarking years later that he has never been angry about anything and Kingsley Amis has grown angry by growing conservative and old . |
| 19 | The improvements to estates should have been completed in five years when the HATs will be wound up and the houses disposed of to new landlords who could be the local council , a private individual or company , a housing association or a co-operative . |
| 20 | They are regularly stocked with rainbow and brown trout , and fish of up to 6lb 12 oz have been caught in recent years . |
| 21 | Few salmon are encountered in Loch Doon these days , but brown trout abound and some huge fish have been caught in recent years . |
| 22 | As we shall see , the latter system has been modified in recent years , but the basic principle upon which the ‘ pool ’ rests remains unchanged , namely that the cost of public sector higher education must be shared among all the local authorities . |
| 23 | The principal investigators will be responsible for interviewing key informants about the way the system has been modified in recent years . |
| 24 | Of the constituent countries of the UK , Northern Ireland had a considerable degree of devolved government but this has been modified in recent years pending resolution of Ireland 's partition problems . |
| 25 | For the first time the survey , which covered 1,160,000 sq km ( i.e. two-thirds of the entire forest area in Europe ) included data on forest damage in the western part of the Soviet Union ( i.e. Byelorussia , the Kaliningrad region and Ukraine ) in addition to Estonia and Lithuania which had been included in earlier years . |
| 26 | The importance of ‘ generic skills ’ has been stressed in recent years by the Manpower Services Commission ( now Training Agency ) as a flexible response to and preparation for a fast-changing economy . |
| 27 | They all have alluvial flood plains or levels of wet permanent pasture in which extensive flooding used to be of frequent occurrence , but many improvement schemes have been instituted in recent years with stretches of river being straightened and flood banks raised . |
| 28 | As we have seen , the civil and political elements of citizenship have been eroded in recent years . |
| 29 | As far as the citizenship of entitlement as formulated by Marshall is concerned , Labour is opposed to the introduction of a Bill of Rights , for example , which would be one way of restoring the civil and political rights which have been eroded in recent years . |
| 30 | But they have been eroded in recent years , and it is likely that this erosion will continue although , as before , it will have varied impact according to issue and ( geographical ) place . |