Example sentences of "[pron] has be a move " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a move by the Norwegian government to try to tax the Lapps on the basis of reindeer numbers , and almost overnight the Arctic was denuded of animals , at least on paper . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Lately there has been a move towards counting the twenty-four hours in a single progression from 00.00 , representing midnight , to 23.59 , the figures on the left of the punctuating point being the hours and those to the right the minutes . |
| 4 | Since the 1970s there has been a move towards financial devolution in many countries worldwide . |
| 5 | There has been a move away from the use of children 's homes towards more developed foster care and some private sector provision . |
| 6 | Alongside this there has been a move towards non-elected and usually specialist forms of local government . |
| 7 | Paul Hoggett ( 1987 ) , for example , has sought to explain changes in the organization of local government largely in terms drawn from debates within economics and the sociology of work ( see , for example , Massey , 1988a ; Meegan , 1988 ) , which suggests that since the early 1970s there has been a move away from Fordist towards post-Fordist methods of production . |
| 8 | This has led to the claim that British merger policy has potentially represented a Charter for Conglomerates , although it should be noted that , as discussed in the next subsection , there has been a move away from diversification and conglomerates , especially after the Stock Market Crash of 1987 . |
| 9 | It is for this reason , perhaps , that there has been a move , clearly indicated in the curriculum guidelines recently produced by HM Inspectorate , to emphasise the importance of skills-based learning . |
| 10 | Over the last 20 years there has been a move away from looking at children and adults in isolation towards looking at the needs of both , in terms of the family . |
| 11 | In recent years there has been a move to teach young people in residential care practical skills such as cooking and budgeting which they will need when they leave care . |
| 12 | There has been a move away from the narrow field of Production Engineering into the broader field of Operations Management … . |
| 13 | Changes in the course occur because of the need to attract a great number of students ; recently there has been a move to introduce a greater element of electronics in the course because |
| 14 | There has been a move towards a preference for flexible middle-range voices such as those mezzo-sopranos and baritones who can sing both quite high and quite low . |
| 15 | In recent years , however , there has been a move towards more intensive farming : altering the lambing season so they are born at different times of the year ; bringing lambs indoors and using special feed to make them grow bigger . |
| 16 | In recent years there has been a move to much bigger primary care teams , which has generally been welcomed . |
| 17 | In recent years , there has been a move away from open surgical techniques in biliary disease with an increasing use of therapeutic endoscopy for the extraction of bile duct stones and the stenting of biliary strictures . |
| 18 | However , there has been a move away from copy-protection because it is troublesome to customers who , not unreasonably , wish to take back-up copies of important programs . |
| 19 | In education recently , there has been a move away from over-emphasis on the assimilation of facts to an appreciation of the need for pupils to experience the processes by which one learns . |
| 20 | Recently , there has been a move towards customised self-liquidating premiums , an example being luxury bathrobes bearing the company logo . |