Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] a recent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue of local economies being spun into what becomes a self-perpetuating decline has been highlighted in a recent report from the Centre for Environmental Studies ( Outer Estates in Britain , CES Paper , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | However , there is one kind of measure which , though still affected by many of the variables mentioned above , may help us to conceptualize the undergraduate curriculum in relation to employment ; namely the occupational distribution of graduates in any one subject , which has been analysed in a recent paper by Tarsh ( 1988 ) in terms of the relative importance of direct , subject skills , and indirect , general skills . |
| 3 | In addition , the role of biofeedback treatment in these conditions is still unclear , and the efficacy of retraining in liquid stool incontinence has been questioned in a recent study . |
| 4 | But this view has been challenged in a recent issue of Genetics by Barry Hall of Rochester University , following on from research done in 1988 by John Cairns , a respected molecular biologist . |
| 5 | I am satisfied , and this has been confirmed by a recent independent review , that that support is effective in generating investment and jobs . |
| 6 | Dismissal can not usually be justified merely because the employee 's private life is scandalous or involves immoral conduct , and this has been reconfirmed by a recent Higher Labour Court decision ( LAG Hamm , 17 Sa 1326/89 ) . |
| 7 | ANYONE who may have been disturbed by a recent Monitor report on the threat of cancer lurking in normal cells ( New Scientist , 3 March , p 583 ) , can sleep easy again , at least for the time being . |
| 8 | A further means , in hard cases , of avoiding the formalities required by s. 2 , Law of Property ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1989 , and s. 52(1) , Law of Property Act 1925 , may have been provided by a recent Court of Appeal decision on the doctrine of donatio mortis causa , which enables a person , in contemplation of their death , to make a gift without formalities . |
| 9 | The statement ‘ If rain falls on spruce forests , the rain can become even more acid ’ may have been drawn from a recent paper from the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology that certainly showed that water flowing down the stem was more acid than that caught in the open . |
| 10 | He quoted " dramatic data " which had been presented to a recent meeting of a committee charged with deciding the future of the shell . |
| 11 | On Nov. 18 the Australian authorities announced that Australia had refused refugee status to Ari Ben-Menashe , a self-described former Israeli agent whose accounts of Israeli government arms dealings had been cited in a recent book by Seymour Hersh [ see p. 38550 ] . |
| 12 | This technical analysis had been confirmed in a recent County Court appeal against the exercise of a Registrar 's discretion . |
| 13 | Yesterday party leaders voiced their total opposition to violent acts and one SNP MP , Andrew Welsh , claimed he had been misquoted at a recent press conference when he apparently would not rule out sabotage . |
| 14 | Refugees fleeing Iraq said on Feb. 13 that some 30 Jordanians had been killed in a recent missile attack on a civilian bus travelling on the Iraq-Kuwait border . |
| 15 | The pain in his ribs , three of which had been crushed in a recent collision , was almost unbearable . |
| 16 | Although a preparatory process for the restoration of loans had been initiated during a recent visit to Beijing by a Japanese government official , no " concrete " commitment had been made in this regard , Kyodo reported . |
| 17 | Further details of the method have been given in a recent paper . |
| 18 | The prevalence of hypertension is significantly greater in non-diabetic blacks than whites ( Comstock , 1957 ; Hypertension Detection and Follow-up Program Co-operative Group , 1977 ) , and similar findings have been confirmed in a recent clinic survey of diabetics at a District General Hospital ( Pacy et al , 1985 ) . |
| 19 | Number twos tend therefore to be passed over ( except for the top job in America , for which agreeably relaxed standards of industry have been set by a recent incumbent ) . |
| 20 | Measures to make firms more accountable to their clients in non-reserved functions have been proposed in a recent Institute report . |