Example sentences of "recent [noun pl] have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dick Hobbs ( 1988 ) lived with thieves and detectives as they set out to ‘ do the business ’ , and perhaps one of the most effective pieces of participant observation in recent times has been the four-volume Policy Studies Institute work on the police in London ( 1983 ) . |
| 2 | One encouraging feature of period-instrument performances in recent decades has been a growing concern with reliable and authoritative editions . |
| 3 | Filippo Pandolfi , vice-president of the European Commission in charge of research , has further remarked that the adopted procedures may help to avoid errors and falsification of research , which in recent years has been a controversial issue in the US . |
| 4 | Perhaps their most important contribution for Sussex birds in recent years has been the vast increase in the provision of food at bird-tables and feeding stations . |
| 5 | One of the Territorial Army 's biggest problems in recent years has been the substantial turnover of recruits , which has amounted to as much as 30 per cent . |
| 6 | Another feature of building society expansion in recent years has been the increasing concentration of the industry through merger activity . |
| 7 | A very useful development in insulin therapy in recent years has been the fixed-dose mixture of insulin , either 30 per cent short-acting and 70 per cent intermediate-acting ( Mixtard ) or equal parts of the two insulins ( Initard ) . |
| 8 | An outstanding feature of the UK economy in recent years has been the rapid growth in employment in the service industries . |
| 9 | The most exciting development in recent years has been the illuminated fountain . |
| 10 | The art critic , Peter Fuller , considers : " One worrying feature of recent years has been the fashionable appropriation of the language of the " spiritual " to defend work of a numbing vacuity " ( Fuller 1990 : 18 ) . |