Example sentences of "has [vb pp] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite its importance and grade II* listing , the treatment it has received in recent years has been disgraceful , and it is to be hoped a great many lessons will have been learnt about how to deal with irresponsible owners of such important listed buildings . |
| 2 | It would seem that the restoration profession has not been able to keep its nerve in the face of the rapidly growing attention it has received in recent years , and is reacting in an undisciplined way . |
| 3 | The story enshrined the belief that has developed in recent years that people who place bolts are villains who have no place on British soil . |
| 4 | Its reputation as the most beautiful bay on the west coast of Scotland has developed in recent years , not fostered by press and media publicity but by the enthusiastic recommendations of those who have been there . |
| 5 | Before we have had the opportunity to vote on that policy , the autumn statement has informed us that the Government will not promote training or fill the training gap that has developed in recent years . |
| 6 | In this programme we are going to look at the way in which British music has developed in recent years and its relationship to that produced by Continental Europe . |
| 7 | In many far off lands the Commission 's gardeners have no knowledge of the English language , while their supervisors are not fluent in the native tongue ; the result has been , so the Commission reports , that a form of hybrid speech has developed in certain countries that would be incomprehensible to other natives of the country and to ordinary English-speakers , but which is ‘ very eloquent ’ on matters relating to cemetery maintenance ! |
| 8 | The poor physical conditions under which many teachers have to work may be difficult enough , but their problems are compounded by the gulf which has developed in many schools between teachers and pupils , and the low regard in which teachers are held . |
| 9 | It has developed in two ways . |
| 10 | Since the heyday of the Chicago School , though , there has developed in urban sociology ( and , arguably , in sociology more generally ) a major gulf between these two kinds of understanding . |
| 11 | Methods of contraception and details of the menstrual cycle — whether it has altered in any way , how regular it is — will be asked , and also details of the symptoms , if any , that prompted attendance . |
| 12 | The Editor has commented in previous editions of ‘ NG ’ that graduates of the former University College , Nottingham ( the University before it received its charter in 1948 ) and people who hold external Nottingham degrees are regarded as members of Convocation just as are those who have obtained their degrees after study on the Nottingham campus . |
| 13 | Budhoo asserts that the IMF and World Bank are key elements in an economic order that is deepening Third World poverty , the debt crisis , and a flight of capital from developing to developed countries which has soared in recent decades : in 1986 it amounted to well over $30 billion from the Caribbean and Latin America alone . |
| 14 | The principles and practice of plan making , and the various ways in which government , both local and central , has intervened in environmental affairs , have always been dependent on the context of the time : political , institutional , social , economic and technological . |
| 15 | I can summarise his submissions as follows : ( 1 ) Walker v. Great Northern Railway Co. of Ireland , 28 L.R.Ir. 69 correctly stated the position at English law up to 1976. ( 2 ) As the legislature has intervened in this field it is neither necessary nor appropriate for the judiciary to alter the position at common law . |
| 16 | Just as the old order has fallen in eastern Europe , so it is falling in educational establishment circles in Britain . |
| 17 | However , child benefit has fallen in real value , so there was no justification for reducing the dependency additions . |
| 18 | These comprise several features : employment has fallen in most branches of manufacturing and in some parts of the service sector ; land has been diverted from residential use by office expansion , road construction and slum clearance ; more mobile people have been leaving to escape the poor physical environment and the social problems ; new private house-building has been discouraged by high costs , land hoarding by local authorities and uncertainties about sales potential ; and falling household size has reduced the capacity of the overall housing stock ( Cameron , 1980 ; Evans and Eversley , 1980 ; Kennett and Hall , 1981 ; Lawless , 1981 ) . |
| 19 | About £1 million has been raised for charity by the display and reproduction of the watercolours which the Prince of Wales has painted in recent years but the exhibition which opens to the public today is his first one-man show in Scotland . |
| 20 | Dust has gathered in inaccessible places , walls have faded and paintwork has subtly changed colour . |
| 21 | Its author , a historian who comes from former Yugoslavia but now lives in Britain , has gathered in one volume her writings published between 1981 and the end of 1991 . |
| 22 | We are aware of the campaigning work your section has undertaken in this regard and would like to express to you our genuine appreciation for your efforts . |
| 23 | The list of reforms the Conservative government has undertaken in social security is long : the Fowler reviews ; the removal of young people from the benefits system , and Lilley 's categoric assurance that the youth training guarantee works ; the recent changes to the system of disability benefits ; and changes to the system of child maintenance . |
| 24 | From the number of lengthy interviews she has given in recent weeks , it seems pretty obvious that the opposition has been playing the Prime Minister 's game — she clearly intended to hold an election next month . |
| 25 | She has succeeded in convincing Rainbow that she alone must somehow atone for the misdeeds of the ancestress who caused poor Anya to wander forever in a twilight world . |
| 26 | The two approaches to the study of the mother and child relationship we have discussed so far-that based on physical care and that dealing with attitudes — each originally hoped to reveal the major determinants of children 's personality development ; neither , however , has succeeded in this task . |
| 27 | First , that the radical Right 's assault has been carefully managed ; the step by step approach was brilliantly conceived and managed by diligent and unerring control from the centre ; secondly , that the speed of its success has varied in different areas of public provision , which tells us much about the role of resistances , resistances built on organized opposition within the public services . |
| 28 | The stringency with which the courts have applied the criteria of relevancy has varied in different areas and there has been an unwillingness to declare invalid administrative decisions simply because the applicant could point to one ‘ relevant ’ factor which the authority did not take into account . |
| 29 | Communism has collapsed in Eastern Europe , and the Soviet Union has fallen apart . |
| 30 | After all , law and order has collapsed in this country . |