Example sentences of "years [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That he would have done much more is years to come is certain ; yet the quality and the richness of what he left behind him make it equally certain that this very patient man , who to achieve his ends knew how to take his time , never wasted a minute of his life . |
| 2 | When teachers ask what librarians can offer in pupil.guidance , chartered librarians often retort that their own knowledge of children 's literature greatly exceeds that of the average teacher ( usually strikingly untutored in such matters ) , and when self-styled educational technologists wonder what a librarian can tell a student about a filmstrip , the retort in recent years has been prompt , and along the same lines . |
| 3 | During the years has been involved in all aspects of malt production , holding management posts at Bath , Salisbury , Abingdon and Gloucester . |
| 4 | The method used in the past few years has been simple — ignore names put forward by organisations you do not approve of and pack the committees with more sympathetic interest groups . |
| 5 | Their agony in recent months and years has been terrible to behold . |
| 6 | The major portion of the consumption of energy over the past 100 years has been due to the industrialisation of what is now called the Developed World . |
| 7 | The list of foreign players attracted to Whaddon over the years has been endless . |
| 8 | NEWS that an investigation has been started into the possible mis-assessment of ethnic minority children in Strathclyde has highlighted an issue which for years has been simmering in Britain 's classrooms and education departments . |
| 9 | Much of the publicity that drug usage has received over the last two or three years has been counter-productive . |
| 10 | I think I 'm probably drawing too many parallels between the serious situation and the pop situation , but certainly no doubt that English pop for the last twenty years has been pre-eminent in Europe , and still is . |
| 11 | The rate of growth in the last two years has been explosive and forecasts suggest this rapid rise will strengthen during the middle and late 1990s as CD-ROM readers become a standard built-in element of most desktop computer systems . |
| 12 | The pace of legislative change in recent years has been relentless and advice workers need to be prepared for it in advance . |
| 13 | I met the management of Trent Buses , which operates in a very competitive , deregulated environment , and I am glad to say that its investment programme over the past five years has been impressive . |
| 14 | A little further north is the small village of Conisholme which for many years has been famous for its Appleby 's Ice Cream establishment . |
| 15 | Over the years has been responsible for improving the mill control systems throughout the country ; updating the simple push buttons on the walls to the present day fully computerised systems . |
| 16 | The advance in algicides in recent years has been considerable . |
| 17 | No Defence Secretary in recent years has been able to grip his department effectively , which means taking harsh decisions that reflect a coherent view of Britain 's priorities . |
| 18 | The dominant linguistic school over the last thirty years has been generative linguistics which has its foundation in Chomsky 's revolutionary Syntactic Structures ( Chomsky , 1957 ) . |
| 19 | The climbing world 's response over the years has been ambivalent . |
| 20 | Francis Thomson , the man who for nearly twenty years has been promising to write a biography of Alan Blumlein is once again appealing for more material on Blumlein . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Much of geography over the last 40 years has been concerned with analysing these subsystems by breaking down each subsystem into ever smaller component parts and studying these parts , and their interrelationships , at an increasing level of detail . |
| 23 | His thinking over many years lead to his innovative Lotus 78 , the car that pioneered F1 's ground effect era , and his creative energy over the past 10 years has been instrumental in galvanising Lotus , once a car maker with a fragile future , into an engineering consultancy of huge standing worldwide . |
| 24 | ‘ However , I feel justified in saying that the return on our investment over the past two years has been immense . ’ |
| 25 | What she has known most intimately these last years has been intense pain . |
| 26 | But also there you can ministers because minis er churches they count for more than two years stop being central funds and therefore , if we had too many |
| 27 | The quick redemption of bonds seems to have been envisaged from the early days for this kind of comment recurs. that the repayment took over 75 years to accomplish is remarkable , but that it is so is attributable to three things , compounded by other factors such as two World Wars . |
| 28 | The English monks seem for some years to have been able to resist the discipline of Lanfranc . |
| 29 | ‘ The last 25 years had been bloody , ’ Gauntlett winces . |
| 30 | Professionally the years had been good to him , though it was a great disappointment to Maud that he had specialized in diseases of the mind . |