Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [vb pp] [prep] recent " 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 | Much has been done in recent months to draw those matters to the attention of the Department and , as I said , I believe that Ministers have been listening . |
| 10 | This is partly due to the privatization programme which has been implemented in recent years and has reduced the number of public corporations . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This has been reinforced by recent changes in international migration , in particular involving a major surge in net inward movement to the South East in the first half of the 1980s . |
| 14 | Early television cameras were large and the image of poor quality , but much progress has been made in recent years . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , much progress has been made in recent years . |
| 16 | But the concept of mutual mate choice has remained untested experimentally , although it has been supported by recent modelling . |
| 17 | And this general approach has been supported by recent sequencing studies , so the the channels have been er the C D N A for the channels has been sequenced , and that indicates that the evolutionary relationships between channels have been based er have arisen er pri primarily on the basis of their gating properties rather than on the basis of their ionic selectivity . |
| 18 | The following information about Birmingham alumni has been collected from recent news reports . |
| 19 | Lochranza has been ignored in recent years since the only crossing to Arran is now at Brodick . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Much attention has been given in recent months to the provision of accommodation for nurses . |
| 22 | Much thinking has been given in recent years to the use of instruments as well as voices in worship . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The therapeutic potential of these genetic advances has been indicated by recent gene transfer experiments by Woo in an inbred strain of mouse with phenylalanine hydroxylase deficiency ( S L C Woo , paper delivered at annual meeting of European Metabolic Group ( Milupa ) Copenhagen , May 1991 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Guests saw how the plant has been upgraded over recent years and capacity increased from 45,000 to 70,000 tonnes . |
| 27 | To put this into context it is worth taking a look at what has been achieved over recent decades in obtaining access agreements for canoes to pass along our rivers . |
| 28 | Much has been achieved in recent years . |
| 29 | However , a great deal has been achieved in recent years and I shall always be proud of the Department and more importantly its employees . |
| 30 | Richard Ryder is friendly , tactful and warm but has a ruthless streak which has been exposed in recent days . |