Example sentences of "in a recent [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a recent survey 60pc of those asked supported the view that the licence fee should be reduced , eliminated or frozen and advertising should be accepted . |
| 2 | In a recent Lake District survey , only 48 per cent of house purchasers were local , with more than half the purchases being for holiday accommodation , second homes or retirement ( Shucksmith 1981 ) . |
| 3 | In a recent NCT survey , 19 out of 20 British people said they approved of breastfeeding in principle , but did n't like to see it in a public place . |
| 4 | In a recent telephone conversation with the CAA I was connected with the department that allocates frequencies for such beacons . |
| 5 | In a recent telephone conversation , Mr Ubial Susey told WACC staff that he has resumed his regular responsibilities as Director of Communication with the Church of Christ in Zaire . |
| 6 | In a recent telephone conversation you told me that your department would include the War Memorial in Scorton under your grounds maintenance scheme and that this would include the cleaning of the actual memorial cross itself . |
| 7 | I was peeved to see Robert Kilroy-Silk credited with inventing the egg trick in a recent colour supp. profile . |
| 8 | In a recent publication Wendorf and Goldfine have related apparent variation in susceptibility to non-insulin dependent diabetes among North American Indian tribes to the timing of migrations into the continent . |
| 9 | In a recent Government report , experts say , ‘ We recommend that vitamin supplementation ( including A , C and D ) should be given to infants and young children aged from 6 months up to at least 2 years and preferably 5 years . ’ |
| 10 | In a recent government report they say : |
| 11 | Our legal correspondent looks at the possibilities of and the background to plea bargaining , one of the issues covered in a recent Government consultation document on improving the delivery of justice system in Scotland . |
| 12 | Refugees fleeing Iraq said on Feb. 13 that some 30 Jordanians had been killed in a recent missile attack on a civilian bus travelling on the Iraq-Kuwait border . |
| 13 | In a recent colleges survey ( admittedly with a return response of less than 40% ) 80% of the advanced instruction programmes which existed were timetabled and 60% of them were a formal part of the students ' courses . |
| 14 | John Jackson , chairman of Leeds-based Centaur which also owns Alexandre in Powlett Road , Hartlepool , said in a recent newspaper article the policy would cost thousands of jobs . |
| 15 | John Jackson , chairman of Leeds-based Centaur which also owns Alexandre in Powlett Road , Hartlepool , said in a recent newspaper article the policy would cost thousands of jobs . |
| 16 | Amid the storm over the criteria used , a Bangor school , which by its own admission existed on a low profile in the past , came out top in Northern Ireland in a recent newspaper guide to choosing the best of education . |
| 17 | As Bauer put it in a recent BBC television discussion of covert recognition , ‘ Our normal experience of perception , of seeing objects or faces as an all or none process , is a trick that the brain plays on us ’ . |
| 18 | The offices are so old-fashioned that one was used as Scrooge 's office in a recent film version of A Christmas Carol . |
| 19 | The prevalence of hypertension is significantly greater in non-diabetic blacks than whites ( Comstock , 1957 ; Hypertension Detection and Follow-up Program Co-operative Group , 1977 ) , and similar findings have been confirmed in a recent clinic survey of diabetics at a District General Hospital ( Pacy et al , 1985 ) . |
| 20 | In a recent wardship case decided under the old law , Re H ( Minors ) ( Wardship : Sexual Abuse ) [ 1991 ] FLR 416 the Court of Appeal had to carry out just such a balancing exercise when deciding whether to make an interim care order in respect of four children alleged to be at risk of sexual abuse . |
| 21 | This overview , culminating in a recent case study of American police practices , offers a reasonable basis for predicting future British trends . |
| 22 | There 's also the soft side , the Bill Morrison who is reduced to tears by Harry Secombe — ‘ I 'd love to be as good as him ’ and the Bill Morrison who confesses in an unguarded moment that as an epitaph he 'd like the description that appeared in a recent Times leader about him : ‘ a man they can trust ’ . |
| 23 | As Sir Robert Armstrong , former Cabinet Secretary , pointed out in a recent court case , economy of truth and interpretation plays an important part in how the behaviour of MI5 is determined . |
| 24 | The World Health Organization has recognized alcoholism as a disease since 1951 , and the American Medical Association for nearly as long , but in a recent court case the US Government argued that alcoholism results from excessive drinking ‘ chosen freely ’ . |
| 25 | Hill , who impressed the team with his speed in a recent test session at Estoril , has agreed a one-year contract with a two-year option to partner Prost , who has won the world championship three times . |
| 26 | One Dublin garage , in a recent trading month , sold just three new cars ; the same month a year earlier , it sold 13 . |
| 27 | In a recent ACCOUNTANCY survey of the financial directors of The Times Top 100 Companies , over 70% of the respondents were found to be trading electronically . |
| 28 | Yet in a recent OECD report , Universities under Scrutiny , William Taylor remarks that ‘ Curriculum is often the missing chapter ’ in studies of universities ( Taylor 1987 , p. 42 ) . |
| 29 | Measures to make firms more accountable to their clients in non-reserved functions have been proposed in a recent Institute report . |
| 30 | In a recent B B C 2 programme on computing , the presenter commented on the huge capacity of computers such as those used by the Meteorological Office to predict the weather . |