Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] have been the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the characteristic defects of much evaluation research in social work has been the limited amount of systematic data on exactly what social workers do in practice ( Carver and Edwards , 1972 ; Goldberg and Warburton , 1979 ; Goldberg et al . , |
| 2 | One demonstrable sign of the growth of permissiveness in British society has been the consistent tendency over the last twenty years for Parliament to alter laws governing moral conduct in a permissive direction . |
| 3 | One of the major reasons , however , for the interest in resource-based learning has been the recognition that children must learn , during the course of their schooling , to be increasingly self-sufficient in learning , to become the " independent autonomous learners " most fitted to survive in a society undergoing constant change , and in the context of the knowledge explosion . |
| 4 | The crucial factor in the development of bureaucracy in communist states has been the impossibility of democratizing administration , of throwing it open to literate lay people as Lenin wanted . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | More important in recent practice has been the review of consents already granted , a matter which has revived interest among agency staffing some of the major issues surrounding standard setting . |
| 7 | It was just what United needed and it rattled Leicester who in recent weeks have been the most successful team in the table . |
| 8 | Most significant in recent years have been the field experiments carried out by the British ornithologists Nick Davies and Mike Brooke from the University of Cambridge , and the field observations of another British ornithologist , Ian Wyllie . |
| 9 | A particular feature in recent years has been the polarisation of power away from local education authorities ( LEAs ) to the centre ( government ) and to the periphery ( schools ) . |
| 10 | An ominous dimension in recent years has been the use of public order legislation as a means with which to repress the expression of sexual preferences . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | An outstanding feature of the UK economy in recent years has been the rapid growth in employment in the service industries . |
| 14 | The reason for the popularity of the de-clawing operation in recent years has been the concern of ( usually wealthy ) owners for their soft furnishings . |
| 15 | By far the most popular location in recent years has been the Netherlands , for the very good reason that it has for some time offered by far the best deal . |
| 16 | A major improvement in recent years has been the inclusion in such reports of analysis and interpretation of the data ( see , for instance , Cook and Dacre 1985 ) . |
| 17 | One of the most exciting developments in recent years has been the degree of convergence between models of visual function built up by computer scientists trying to figure out how to build machines that can see and physiologists trying to work out what different parts of the visual system do . |
| 18 | One of the most provocative findings in recent years has been the degree of parallel organization hidden within individual anatomical regions . |
| 19 | Afternoon visit to Lake Bogoria which in recent years has been the home of the lesser flamingo . |
| 20 | One particularly important feature in recent years has been the growth of manufacturing employment within rural areas . |
| 21 | In these cases the locational attraction of rural areas can be considerable , and one of the most remarkable locational shifts in manufacturing in recent years has been the closure of port-based , imported cane sugar processing plants in East London in favour of sugar beet processing factories in East Anglia ( Community Development Project 1977 ) . |
| 22 | The fastest growing attraction in recent years has been the ‘ Jorvik Viking Centre ’ in York ( 0.9 million visits in 1986 ) owned by Heritage Projects Limited ( for full details , see pp. 4 and 5 above ) . |
| 23 | One of the most remarkable aspects of population change in recent years has been the growth and redistribution of the labour force . |
| 24 | Part of the Trust 's work in recent years has been the compilation of surveys of vernacular buildings and landscapes . |
| 25 | The most exciting development in recent years has been the illuminated fountain . |
| 26 | Another feature of building society expansion in recent years has been the increasing concentration of the industry through merger activity . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | One response to the rising level of unemployment in recent years has been the growth of Local Employment Development Agencies . |
| 29 | One of the most visible changes in schools in recent years has been the introduction of the General Certificate of Education ( GCSE ) . |
| 30 | For example , one of the most influential developments in macroeconomics in recent years has been the rise of the new classical school — an extreme form of laissez-faire monetarism . |