Example sentences of "have [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite its importance and grade II* listing , the treatment it has received in recent years has been disgraceful , and it is to be hoped a great many lessons will have been learnt about how to deal with irresponsible owners of such important listed buildings . |
| 2 | It would seem that the restoration profession has not been able to keep its nerve in the face of the rapidly growing attention it has received in recent years , and is reacting in an undisciplined way . |
| 3 | The story enshrined the belief that has developed in recent years that people who place bolts are villains who have no place on British soil . |
| 4 | Its reputation as the most beautiful bay on the west coast of Scotland has developed in recent years , not fostered by press and media publicity but by the enthusiastic recommendations of those who have been there . |
| 5 | Before we have had the opportunity to vote on that policy , the autumn statement has informed us that the Government will not promote training or fill the training gap that has developed in recent years . |
| 6 | In this programme we are going to look at the way in which British music has developed in recent years and its relationship to that produced by Continental Europe . |
| 7 | In many far off lands the Commission 's gardeners have no knowledge of the English language , while their supervisors are not fluent in the native tongue ; the result has been , so the Commission reports , that a form of hybrid speech has developed in certain countries that would be incomprehensible to other natives of the country and to ordinary English-speakers , but which is ‘ very eloquent ’ on matters relating to cemetery maintenance ! |
| 8 | Since the heyday of the Chicago School , though , there has developed in urban sociology ( and , arguably , in sociology more generally ) a major gulf between these two kinds of understanding . |
| 9 | The Editor has commented in previous editions of ‘ NG ’ that graduates of the former University College , Nottingham ( the University before it received its charter in 1948 ) and people who hold external Nottingham degrees are regarded as members of Convocation just as are those who have obtained their degrees after study on the Nottingham campus . |
| 10 | Budhoo asserts that the IMF and World Bank are key elements in an economic order that is deepening Third World poverty , the debt crisis , and a flight of capital from developing to developed countries which has soared in recent decades : in 1986 it amounted to well over $30 billion from the Caribbean and Latin America alone . |
| 11 | The principles and practice of plan making , and the various ways in which government , both local and central , has intervened in environmental affairs , have always been dependent on the context of the time : political , institutional , social , economic and technological . |
| 12 | Just as the old order has fallen in eastern Europe , so it is falling in educational establishment circles in Britain . |
| 13 | However , child benefit has fallen in real value , so there was no justification for reducing the dependency additions . |
| 14 | About £1 million has been raised for charity by the display and reproduction of the watercolours which the Prince of Wales has painted in recent years but the exhibition which opens to the public today is his first one-man show in Scotland . |
| 15 | Dust has gathered in inaccessible places , walls have faded and paintwork has subtly changed colour . |
| 16 | The list of reforms the Conservative government has undertaken in social security is long : the Fowler reviews ; the removal of young people from the benefits system , and Lilley 's categoric assurance that the youth training guarantee works ; the recent changes to the system of disability benefits ; and changes to the system of child maintenance . |
| 17 | From the number of lengthy interviews she has given in recent weeks , it seems pretty obvious that the opposition has been playing the Prime Minister 's game — she clearly intended to hold an election next month . |
| 18 | This has succeeded in kick-starting many renewable projects , but as its 1998 cut-off date approaches , it is becoming difficult to finance new schemes . |
| 19 | She has succeeded in convincing Rainbow that she alone must somehow atone for the misdeeds of the ancestress who caused poor Anya to wander forever in a twilight world . |
| 20 | The response to this ‘ illogicality ’ — which is , of course , the very problem with the law of involuntary manslaughter too — has varied in recent English proposals . |
| 21 | First , that the radical Right 's assault has been carefully managed ; the step by step approach was brilliantly conceived and managed by diligent and unerring control from the centre ; secondly , that the speed of its success has varied in different areas of public provision , which tells us much about the role of resistances , resistances built on organized opposition within the public services . |
| 22 | The stringency with which the courts have applied the criteria of relevancy has varied in different areas and there has been an unwillingness to declare invalid administrative decisions simply because the applicant could point to one ‘ relevant ’ factor which the authority did not take into account . |
| 23 | Communism has collapsed in Eastern Europe , and the Soviet Union has fallen apart . |
| 24 | That batch , the most intriguing of all , has included in recent months five members of the Grand Slam squad — Leonard , who is recovering well from a neck operation but must rest , Morris , Pears , Rodber and Heslop . |
| 25 | But Leonard is not of that cloth ; his nature is obsessive ; what he does , he must do with abandon ; he has to work in total conviction , and dedication . |
| 26 | ‘ The church has come in good faith , and is innocent of any deception . |
| 27 | In particular , TV buying has come in recent years to be regarded as something of a separate skill — arguably to the detriment of the media operations of agencies as a whole . |
| 28 | Shifting agriculture is not in itself environmentally harmful , as is evidenced by the long and generally successful history that this type of agriculture has enjoyed in tropical regions . |
| 29 | Eight years have elapsed since Middlesbrough terminated Allison 's last post in League football , since when he has dabbled in non-League management with Fisher , and coached Danes , Swedes and Scots . |
| 30 | The seeds alone , as anyone who has dabbled in Indian cookery knows , are not pungent . |