Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [adv] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Community psychiatric nurses help many patients return home and cope without the need for hospitalization , and their role has developed markedly in recent years as the emphasis has shifted towards the community . |
| 2 | One major subject area within the polytechnics that has developed considerably in recent years is that of teacher education . |
| 3 | From this history , it can therefore be seen that the scope , size and shape of the Burston site has altered considerably in that time as a result of the £4 million that has been spent over that period . |
| 4 | Hereford 's league form has fallen away in recent weeks ; one win in 11 . |
| 5 | The number of christenings has fallen dramatically in recent years ; parents would rather let the child decide about religion for himself , and many vicars are unwilling to conduct christenings for people who are not regular churchgoers . |
| 6 | The laboratory , one of four run by the Science and Engineering Research Council , has come under increasing financial pressure as its £20m annual budget has fallen sharply in real terms . |
| 7 | He should have taken the decision to allow women to be ordained instead of opening the issue to a damaging debate that has succeeded only in widening rifts within the Church . |
| 8 | This is not the first time the issue of control has come up in this column but because yours is a sign that tends to resist going with the flow , all too often you meet people and circumstances that appear to block your path . |
| 9 | Thi this is something which has come out in several places I do n't know whether the members noted it , erm the er it also touches on , on , on what my colleague said earlier and the item in paragraph V er the assumption of the demand remain much as it is , heavily towards the South East particularly Gatwick . |
| 10 | He carries only nine pounds more than in 1992 and despite being plagued by a wind problem since that success , has come back in great style after being ‘ tubed . ’ |
| 11 | The SDLP has polled well in rural areas , including Londonderry , a city now politically divided by the River Foyle . |
| 12 | In the language of political philosophy , power is deemed to be a concept that is ‘ essentially contested ’ which means that although the concept has featured prominently in political philosophy over the centuries and is now a major concern of organisation theorists we are still left with disputes over its meaning . |
| 13 | It is small wonder that the practice has grown up in recent years of referring , however inaccurately , to a mistress as a ‘ common law wife ’ . |
| 14 | The Alumni Foundation concerts are a new and pleasant tradition which has grown up in recent years . |
| 15 | One of the reasons that Britain habitually trails in this sort of event is the culture of dogged amateurism that has grown up in recent years . |
| 16 | The franchise is a form of business which has grown up in recent years and offers the would-be entrepreneur what may at first sight appear to be an easy way to start up in business . |
| 17 | However , its use in a wide variety of disciplines has grown dramatically in recent decades , to the point where it seems not only to be facilitating what was done before , but to be creating new possibilities . |
| 18 | The extent to which the sector as a whole has grown dramatically in recent years is underlined in new figures produced for the government 's report by the research group , Graham Bannock and Partners . |
| 19 | However , while shoplifting occurred in the past , the extent of the crime has grown massively in recent years . |
| 20 | The scope of day and domiciliary care has grown sharply in recent years , although it is still woefully inadequate in relation to the demand for services , particularly the home help service . |
| 21 | The numbers of TNCs based in Third World countries , particularly the NICs , has grown rapidly in recent years , and some Third World TNCs are extremely large and wield considerable influence ( Lall , 1983 ) . |
| 22 | The use of CDs has grown rapidly in recent years . |
| 23 | The range of articles produced on the home and export markets has grown considerably in recent years . |
| 24 | ‘ Self-assessment of income tax has operated successfully in many countries , including the United States . |
| 25 | The reputation of Angelica Kauffman ( 1741–1807 ) has risen steadily in recent years , since she ceased to be regarded as a minor decorative artist and began to reassume the esteem accorded her by her contemporaries . |
| 26 | The proportion of children born outside marriage has risen dramatically in recent years . |
| 27 | So protectionism , I mean there 's still protectionism if you 're taxing your exports , it 's a t so protectionism is , is not er , a recent phenomenon , however , the extent of protectionism has risen dramatically in this century , particularly since the Second World War . |
| 28 | The proportion of women in higher education has risen sharply in recent decades — one of the most visible gains in the egalitarian struggle — although in practice young female school-leavers are still less qualified than their male counterparts ( and this signifies , in this country , a truly parlous state of readiness for adult occupations ) ; while in the teaching profession itself , women have yet to achieve anything like parity at the higher levels , as college heads , directors of departments and university professors . |
| 29 | It has risen sharply in real terms , as the hon. Gentleman knows only too well . |
| 30 | In Swindon , a council report suggests the problem has risen twelvefold in recent years . |