Example sentences of "in recent [noun] [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is true that in recent decades it has been made more , rather than less , difficult for elected assemblies to exercise control over public expenditure ( Robinson 1978 ) , it is equally true that political controllers are not completely starved of information about bureaucratic activities . |
| 2 | It is the first time in recent memory she has missed the ceremony . |
| 3 | The Bank of England used to be the City 's leader ; in recent times it has seemed content to be its cheerleader . |
| 4 | In recent months he has made two major speeches in Parliament on the subject . |
| 5 | In recent months it has been expanding its market research activities while offloading its education publishing division and other subsidiaries in a bid to slash debt . |
| 6 | The Citroen BX has long been Britain 's most popular diesel-engined car but in recent months it has been overtaken by another model from the same French stable the ZX . |
| 7 | In recent time it has been thoroughly renovated with its style respected and conserved — and serves still as a place of shelter and of refreshment for travellers . |
| 8 | In recent years she has often taken to using the catalogue just for herself , looking on the agency commission as a personal discount . |
| 9 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 10 | In recent years he has set himself up as a crusader for higher press and broadcasting standards , regularly harking back to the golden days of his journalistic apprenticeship in Yorkshire , where every fact was triple-checked and every speculation ruthlessly suppressed in the Hebden Bridge Times . |
| 11 | But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes . |
| 12 | In recent years he has been closely associated with Hildegard Fritz-Denneville Fine Arts Ltd in Bond Street where his knowledge and connoisseurship are greatly valued and he is still to be found on weekdays in the gallery 's offices . |
| 13 | In recent years he has become increasingly involved in the conservation of neotropical mammals , and now has a deep involvement in research studies in Peru and Ecuador of the mountain tapir , ocelot and giant otter . |
| 14 | In recent years he has coached many leading Midlands runners , including three times Olympian Lorraine Baker . |
| 15 | Predominantly a coastal bird , where it can usually been seen in large flocks from now until spring , in recent years it has spread inland to breed . |
| 16 | Glass-fibre remains an inexpensive and effective reinforcement material , but in recent years it has been upstaged by Kevlar and carbon fibre , two stronger but more costly materials that owe their high profile largely to their use in formula racing cars . |
| 17 | In recent years it has added to the services it provides for the retired to include financial services , retirement homes and magazine publishing . |
| 18 | In recent years it has been particularly successful in treating respiratory and urinary tract infections , gastrointestinal infections , infections of the skin and skin structures , bone and joint infections and sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 19 | In recent years it has become fashionable to say that Modi only suffered from poverty because of his drinking and drug-taking . |
| 20 | In recent years it has been modified to reduce labour costs and increase profits through the use of machinery , fertilizers , and chemicals . |
| 21 | The company at one time had a significant tie to the defence industry , but in recent years it has focused on what it knows best — speciality chemicals . |
| 22 | In recent years it has become more acceptable to distinguish between different types of learning . |
| 23 | In recent years it has been the guitar that has been changing most rapidly . |
| 24 | It is a Yorkshire dale in a classic sense with sweeping contours and a fierce beauty on the grand scale , although in recent years it has been placed in County Durham ( not that locals pay any attention to such cultural vandalism ) . |
| 25 | In recent years it has been found that a high proportion of patients suffering from piles require no further treatment once they have switched to a high-fibre diet and as a result pass soft stools that can be evacuated with minimal straining . |
| 26 | But in recent years it has lost its fury . |
| 27 | As has been pointed out , however , In recent years it has been impossible to tell where natural justice stops and fairness begins . |
| 28 | It was traditionally associated with Persia and the southern Caucasus , but in recent years it has been incorporated into the repertoire of weaving groups in other rug-making countries . |
| 29 | In recent years it has moved far more towards conceptualization in terms of ‘ theory ’ and ‘ practice ’ , to the extent that in some areas ( e.g. Iocational studies , certain parts of geomorphology ) the theory dominates the practice . |
| 30 | Much of the Forestry Commission 's early planting was certainly crude and insensitive , but in recent years it has become more attentive to its landscaping responsibilities ( not least because the Forestry Commission has found that there is money to be made out of tourism if it does so ) and now employs landscape consultants to advise on its planting policies . |