Example sentences of "have in [adj] years [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | His son Michael has in recent years become the more famous actor , but with the re-release of Spartacus , Kirk Douglas , now 74 , is back on the big screen again . |
2 | The ’ chancer ’ or ’ bodger ’ in the building industry has in recent years become more of a problem . |
3 | All in all , Britain has in recent years received six times as much investment from abroad as Germany , and three times as much as France — a major success story for the UK . |
4 | As the speeches of your Lordships show Parliament has in recent years made many inroads into the privilege in a number of statutes . |
5 | Interest in BSL by hearing people , which has in recent years grown enormously reached a peak in 1988 with a broadcast by the of a television programme on this subject , consisting of ten weekly parts , each of fifteen minutes . |
6 | First of all , increased interest in the female spectator has in recent years spawned a number of collections of film criticism which ask important new questions of feminist film theorists . |
7 | ‘ I have been alarmed at the easy way the Labour Party has in recent years allowed certain factions in society to dictate to them the philosophical approach they should be following . |
8 | The 19th-century legend of Kaspar Hauser , that strange boy with no origins and no language , who appeared as if from nowhere , has in recent years reappeared in a film by Werner Herzog and in the poetry of Georg Trakl . |
9 | The Cripps-Day mourning hood , the only surviving ‘ late sixteenth-century ’ item of its kind , has in recent years proved to be little more than a nineteenth-century pastiche . |
10 | Further , LCH has in recent years agreed with most , if not all , of the London markets that it will only accept contracts for registration from clearing members who are members of the relevant market.3 A financial futures contract will be registered only if the clearing members in whose names it is submitted are members of the financial futures market . |
11 | The CML disputed that lenders had in recent years relied on the availability of cover under the Compensation and Indemnity Funds to relax their own business practices , and claimed that lenders were largely responding to public demands for more streamlined conveyancing procedures . |
12 | In fact , in this company division , cost-accounting had in recent years become pre-eminently a pre-investment activity , but this obviously was a function of the nature of the business . |
13 | Yet it turns out that Mr Yanagitani , who was dismissed from Daiwa last month , had in recent years turned into an aspiring George Soros . |
14 | The fisheries minister , Thorsteinn Pálsson , justified the move on the grounds that the IWC had in recent years concentrated exclusively on conservation aspects of whaling , while according to its charter it had a twofold task of both conserving and exploiting whales . |
15 | Stephanie had in other years enjoyed this believed fairy tale : this year her own heaviness , fear perhaps of real birth , prevented her . |
16 | Even before these improvements take effect , though , we are finding that claims have in recent years increased faster than premiums . |
17 | Articled clerks , recently renamed trainee solicitors , are paid salaries , which have in recent years become increasingly attractive . |
18 | Problems of environmental pollution have in recent years become a matter of growing concern both in EC member states and at the EC level itself . |
19 | Some of these caribou have in recent years suffered greatly , at human hands . |
20 | Several German banks have in recent years set up capital market units in London to trade deutschmark bonds . |
21 | I have in recent years got into a deal of trouble in certain Commonwealth countries by claiming that any all-Canadian or Australian squadron was not as good as a mixed squadron . |
22 | I have in recent years edited a self-help journal for people with AIDS , written for the national press and researched a variety of medical material for television . |
23 | I have in recent years edited a self-help journal for people with AIDS , written for the national press and researched a variety of medical material for television . |
24 | The purpose of this book is to look at the ways in which judges of the High Court , the Court of Appeal , and the House of Lords have in recent years dealt with political cases which have come before them . |