Example sentences of "[vb -s] occurred in " in BNC.

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1 There are two forms of sub-slate roof-deck construction favoured by the traditional builders which may store up serious problems for restorers of old buildings once a breach has occurred in the roof covering .
2 An acceptable theory must explain in detail how this clumping of matter has occurred in the time available for it .
3 That comparison is exagerrated by the enormous increase in world trade which has occurred in the post-war period , and which has largely by-passed the Eastern European countries .
4 Again as has occurred in the developing countries , the reduction of their former isolation by modern transport and communications has brought new problems , most notably the outflow of young and active people , and the disruption of traditional cultures .
5 It has been argued , falsely I believe ( 22 ) , that investment in this sector of agriculture , as has occurred in the lowlands , will necessarily lead to a fall in the rural population .
6 It has occurred in Lake Victoria in East Africa .
7 The Kulak path has occurred in many different parts of Latin America .
8 Proletarianisation has occurred in Latin America because the peasantry have been dispossessed of their land or because their land has become insufficient to support a family .
9 At the time of writing , this is still the case , although the initial process of removing the fuel has occurred in many instances .
10 However , it did not prevent , in the winter of 1921–2 , an appalling famine afflicting the southern districts of the Ukraine , ‘ the worst ’ , a League of Nations report declared , ‘ both as regards the numbers affected and as regards the mortality from starvation and disease which has occurred in Europe in modern times ’ .
11 One of the lessons of the conflict for our own policy makers is that , as a result of these advances , a major step forward has occurred in the apparent effectiveness of defensive weapons systems .
12 ( J Millar , 1989 ) Moreover , the growth in the numbers of one-parent families in the past two decades has occurred in most industrialised countries .
13 Social policy has traditionally recognised the additional costs incurred by families with children through the tax and social security systems , although whether or not this has occurred in practice is the subject of dispute .
14 Although this effort has been piecemeal and has occurred in widely differing contexts , the direction in which it is moving can be identified .
15 As Chapter 2 has indicated , soil erosion has occurred in many different societies and periods of history — in feudal Europe , the Soviet Union , Tsarist Russia , the United States in the 1930s , and in present-day peasantries and under widely differing physical conditions .
16 A noticeable change in the nature of protest has occurred in recent years .
17 This same change of emphasis has occurred in the industry of all the Western industrial nations .
18 Once you have agreed , even if the outcome is a compromise that falls short of your original expectations , the sensible thing is to try to stop worrying about what has occurred in the past and to concentrate on the years ahead .
19 Add to this the rapid growth in the numbers of expeditions , climbers and trekkers which has occurred in recent years and it is not surprising that the problem has reached massive proportions despite the availability of new access sites from Tibet which was opened to climbers in 1980 .
20 The explosion of knowledge , skills and ideas , which has occurred in the last half century makes any mapping to some extent arbitrary .
21 Secondly , frequent testing and the enormous pressure of parents and pupils to succeed will almost certainly have the effect of focusing attention on assessment targets , at the expense of other activities to an even greater degree than has occurred in the past .
22 It has occurred in each month from October to June , but is most usually found between December and May , either wintering or on spring passage .
23 A marked change in status has occurred in recent years and is now a regular winter visitor , although as recently as 1953 it was rarer than Whooper Swan .
24 A decline has occurred in the Amberley/Pulborough marshes , where flocks of more than 100 were regular before 1964 , but are now infrequent , although 200 were present in 1974/75 .
25 The breeding stock has increased steadily since 1958 , and some increase has occurred in the number wintering .
26 A considerable decline has occurred in recent years .
27 This latter has occurred in the vicinity of Hessdalen in Norway , where several hundred photographs have now been taken of earth lights , and where there is a permanent monitoring post .
28 Every other improvement for the guitar has occurred in the realms of hardware and pickups .
29 It means helping counsellees to make connections between what has occurred in the past , and how this affects what they are achieving or failing to achieve in the present .
30 Indeed , some families will want to talk about the present , believing that what has occurred in the past is of little or no consequence .
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