Example sentences of "recent [noun pl] [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent times have seen a catalogue of complaints against the teaching profession ; standards of spelling , arithmetic and reading have come under attack from the government and in the media . |
| 2 | Recent decades have seen significant increases in the numbers of offences of violence reported to , and recorded by , the police . |
| 3 | Recent decades have seen a remarkable flourishing of Spanish-American fiction . |
| 4 | The growth of the DUP in recent years has seen that proportion fall . |
| 5 | The instrumental guitar album boom of recent years has seen few players survive with their credibility intact . |
| 6 | In terms of formal policy , a shift in recent years has seen equity ostensibly yield place to efficacy . |
| 7 | The phenomenal success of computer games in recent years has seen them become the most popular pastime of hundreds of thousands of children . |
| 8 | Recent years have seen a succession of second-rate political memoirs illuminated by the self-serving clarity of hindsight , stashed with dutiful acknowledgements to dreary constituency agents , padded out with hack accounts of official visits to one foreign country or another . |
| 9 | Recent years have seen a revival of popular faith in America among Britons and Germans . |
| 10 | Recent years have seen a growing awareness that most of these assumptions about rape are myths . |
| 11 | Studies of rape in England and Wales suggest that two-thirds of rapes take place in the home of the victim or the offender , and that only one-third involve strangers ; that two-fifths of victims suffer physical violence as well as rape , and one-sixth suffer additional sexual indignities ; that recent years have seen an increase in the reporting of rapes between acquaintances , and that rapes are increasing a little in their intrinsic seriousness ( i.e. in terms of the violence used , other sexual acts , etc ) , but that the most significant rise has been in the average length of sentences imposed on rapists by the courts . |
| 12 | Recent years have seen him broaden his horizons : he currently presents Metro , the London Weekend arts programme ; he wrote songs for Caryl Churchill 's Serious Money ; and established a career as an actor , appearing in Jim Cartwright 's Road and Peter Greenaway 's The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover . |
| 13 | Recent years have seen the site developed as a trading estate , now housing a number of firms . |
| 14 | It is not perhaps since Romanticism that there has been so much discussion , and underlying uncertainty , about the market of literature , and it is no accident that recent years have seen an expansion of the sociology of literature as an academic discipline , alongside increased research into reading habits , the best-seller and how to write it , and the levels of writing that appeal to different strata of the public . |
| 15 | Recent years have seen an extraordinary surge of energy among women despite continuing disadvantages : the growth of Well Women Centres , Rape Crisis Lines , the campaign in response to the discrimination against lesbians in Section 25 , the Greenham peace camp , the organisation of professional groups such as Women in Engineering and Women in Publishing , are all manifestations of this energy . |
| 16 | Recent years have seen an increasing emphasis on the importance of inspection as a means of securing quality performance . |
| 17 | More recent years have seen the continuation of such rescue work with a much better publication standard , and there have been two major projects at Mucking , Essex and Spong Hill , Norfolk . |
| 18 | However , recent years have seen the development of the extended role of such services . |
| 19 | Recent years have seen a move away from regimented package holidays as travellers start to assert their independence . |
| 20 | Recent years have seen a multiplication in the number of TV channels and of communications media other than traditional terrestrial television — government pressure on broadcasters is perforce less effective than when there was only one channel . |
| 21 | Recent years have seen a great expansion in the number of librarians working in educational institutions and specializing in educational librarianship ; in Britain this was a later development than in the USA , but none the less the libraries of almost all colleges of education , further education and technology are now run by chartered librarians , and some five hundred or more librarians are also found in secondary schools . |
| 22 | In addition , it should not be assumed that long-term trends in income distribution continue forever : there is evidence that recent years have seen significant changes in these trends in Britain . |
| 23 | The payment of most cathedral organists is also low , although recent years have seen an improvement . |
| 24 | The reader should be aware , however , that recent years have seen the enactment of a number of important statutory forms of liability in particular areas of exceptional risk which go a long way towards avoiding the likelihood of protracted litigation inherent in the ill-defined nature of the rules of strict liability at common law . |
| 25 | At the local level recent years have seen considerable central intervention via ‘ fringe ’ agencies . |
| 26 | Recent years have seen the establishment of ‘ enterprise zones ’ , Urban Development Corporations and a range of similar organizations , operating at local level but bypassing inner-city councils . |
| 27 | Recent years have seen considerable emphasis on attracting adults to higher and further education . |
| 28 | It says that recent years have seen a transformation in Britain 's manufacturing base , and it condemns those who do not recognise it and continue to run down the achievements of British industry . |
| 29 | For proof of that , one need only read the CBI 's report which , among other things , stated that recent years have seen ’ a transformation of Britain 's manufacturing base there is now a solid base on which to build . |
| 30 | Recent years have seen an increased public concern and interest in issues of defence , disarmament and peace . |