Example sentences of "in recent years [pron] [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has , however , been a change of climate in recent years which has been a result of the pressures for accountability spelt out in Chapter 1 . |
| 2 | Additives : In recent years we have been made more aware of the danger of excessive artificial additives in our food and drink . |
| 3 | In recent years we have been witnessing an attempt to place more emphasis on the first two purposes of education to redress what is considered an imbalance in favour of the third in the three decades following the 1944 Education Act . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , in recent years we have been moving , albeit slowly and hesitantly , towards the view that the primary school should regard itself as one element in a united national service to children . |
| 5 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
| 6 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 7 | In recent years they have been streamlined to the point where they are totally identical , except for the name and the cover . |
| 8 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 9 | In recent years he has been closely associated with Hildegard Fritz-Denneville Fine Arts Ltd in Bond Street where his knowledge and connoisseurship are greatly valued and he is still to be found on weekdays in the gallery 's offices . |
| 10 | ‘ In recent years I have been impressed by the standard of speech training in various parts of the province and it was the same again in Ballyclare where a number of talented young people were on stage . ’ |
| 11 | In recent years there had been a considerable increase in the revenue derived from tourism . |
| 12 | In recent years there had been considerable debate about the nature of the railways ' contribution to economic growth . |
| 13 | In recent years there had been growing calls for a reform of the federal system of government , which it was argued led to costly duplication between federal , state and territorial authorities . |
| 14 | In recent years there has been considerable discussion of the role of the Sovereign in the eventuality of a hung Parliament , such as that of 1929–31 , and the general conclusion has been that her role is essentially a passive one . |
| 15 | Which is not to say that popular humour in the States is particularly nice : in recent years there has been a great demand for in-your-face racist , ethnic and misogynist stuff , as typified on the respectable side by Jackie Mason and on the unholy by Andrew Dice Clay . |
| 16 | Many fashions such as the kipper tie and the string tie have come and gone , and in recent years there has been an upsurge in the popularity of vivid colours and flamboyant designs . |
| 17 | In recent years there has been a move in UK schools to standardise scientific nomenclature , and to phase out imperial measurements in favour of metric ones . |
| 18 | Ciba-Geigy runs company management courses and in recent years there has been a steady increase in the number of women in these courses . |
| 19 | In recent years there has been a great increase in the use of active compounds . |
| 20 | And of course in recent years there has been yet another pressure to move away from Brian Way 's methods . |
| 21 | In recent years there has been an explosion in the growth of business travel . |
| 22 | In recent years there has been more emphasis on the objectives of library services , and less upon quantitative measures . |
| 23 | In recent years there has been a strong demand for the Galloway from Germany , especially for low-cost meat production on upland heaths and lowland swamps where the typical German dual-purpose breeds need to be brought inside for the winter and need better grazing . |
| 24 | In the main it causes few problems , but in recent years there has been a rise in cases that cause conflict for the advice worker . |
| 25 | In recent years there has been a tremendous drive to keep elderly persons in their own homes for as long as possible , by giving close support to relatives and friends and by providing support from community services such as home helps and ‘ meals-on-wheels ’ . |
| 26 | In recent years there has been some evidence that they are even more evasive , changing identity by oscillating from one type of neutrino to another . |
| 27 | In recent years there has been an improvement in the standard and a number of top athletes have appeared at the event to earn it some respectability . |
| 28 | In recent years there has been increasing emphasis on the importance of training for staff at all levels in libraries of all kinds but apart from a circular letter sent out by The Library Association in 1976 , and two publications on the subject , one in 1977 and another in 1978 , there have been no systematic attempts to assess overall provision of training in the UK . |
| 29 | In recent years there has been an ongoing controversy relating to unmated females . |
| 30 | In recent years there has been an enormous increase in the range and complexity of capital market instruments . |