Example sentences of "have [adv] recently [been] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has only recently been recognised by MAFF experts , and media coverage has been misleading . |
| 2 | The remainder of the Sighthill Section extending northwards from the Murray Burn to the Edinburgh/Glasgow Road ( A8 ) has been the subject of a Public Inquiry and the line of this part of the road has only recently been confirmed by the Secretary of State . |
| 3 | Britain 's most famous ice-skaters are relaunching their Olympic careers at an ice rink that has only recently been saved from closure . |
| 4 | The budget , now whittled down to $160m , has only recently been approved by the General Assembly committee that does such jobs . |
| 5 | The value of one of the principal recommendations , the provision of psychiatric care to attempted suicide patients , remains controversial , and it has only recently been subjected to controlled evaluation ( Hawton et al. 1987 ) . |
| 6 | The demise of the picture-based magazines caused Doisneau real financial hardship which has only recently been alleviated by the boom in poster and postcard reproductions . |
| 7 | Of the seventeen pieces in this collection , which survives complete only in the second edition of 1533 , no fewer than eight — only seven in the 1533 version — are by Philippe Verdelot ( d. c. 1540 ) , a Frenchman who lived in Italy from a very early age , two ( three in the second edition ) are by an Italian , Costanzo Festa ( C. 1495–1545 ) , one is by another Festa , Sebastiano , of whom we know nothing , one by a mysterious ‘ Maistre Jan ’ or Ihan who has only recently been identified as ‘ a French-born musician active at the court of Ferrara from 1512 to about 1543 ’ , and the remainder by still more shadowy characters . |
| 8 | The lake they had been playing on is a former open-cast mining site which has only recently been transformed into a countryside park . |
| 9 | Familial adenomatous polyposis ( FAP ) has only recently been shown by clinical and molecular studies to encompass the two conditions formerly known as Gardner syndrome and polyposis coli . |
| 10 | I would like to er say that we are very grateful today to be able to welcome amongst us his grace erm , the most reverent Alwyn who has just recently been elected as the Archbishop of Wales . |
| 11 | The exhibition at the Cleveland Gallery later enjoyed a national tour before going on to Holland , says Mr Chettle , who has more recently been inspired in this direction through his nine-year-old son , Thomas , who is now learning to paint and draw by computer … |
| 12 | The issue of direct application of Directive 76/207 has more recently been debated in the European Court in the case of Foster v. British Gas [ 1991 ] 2 WLR 258 , where it was held that provisions of a Directive which were capable of having direct effect could be relied upon by bodies made responsible by the state for providing a public service under state control where such bodies held –special powers ' in relation to such a function . |
| 13 | An adjacent area , Lagalochan , has more recently been investigated as a gold prospect . |
| 14 | The exotic Piper aduncum from South America has probably recently been spread around Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , in this way . |
| 15 | It continued to be so through more than two decades , and then — in the mid-1980s — it seemed , almost inexplicably , to be secure no longer , despite his having only recently been honoured with a knighthood for services to literature . |
| 16 | Had he known that four Pakis were resting their dark arses on his deep leather seats , ready to be driven by his daughter , who had only recently been fucked by one of them , he would n't have been a contented man . |
| 17 | When he arrived to head the Department of Drawings in 1931 it had only recently been split from the paintings department . |
| 18 | In 764 Heahberht , who had witnessed Sigered 's grant of land to Rochester in 762 , appears as king of Kent in the company of Offa and members of the Mercian nobility in Canterbury when Offa granted land to the bishop of Rochester in Kent in his own name ( CS 195 : S 105 ) , the first occasion on which a Mercian king is known to have done so , and the same land which had only recently been granted to Rochester by Sigered and Eanmund . |
| 19 | ( It should be noted that the Phase 3 heads ' comments came from a group whose schools had only recently been brought into PNP and that expressions of dissatisfaction were also voiced at equivalent points in Phases 1 and 2 . |
| 20 | Xenly had only recently been segregated with the invention of the new ‘ control how you look ’ pills . |
| 21 | Smelling the fresh dust in the air he realised that the load of grain in the hopper had only recently been discharged into the stall . |
| 22 | British environmental groups had only recently been roused by appeals from Sweden and Norway . |
| 23 | Remembering how responsive Faye 's blood glucose level was to stress , she was about to monitor its level , but , as she got out the kit , Tom arrived , his tall figure catapulting into the room and only a slight untidiness to his dark hair betraying the fact that he had so recently been locked in Marise 's arms in the garden . |
| 24 | ‘ Because the details have only recently been finalised with Paul Lexington . ’ |
| 25 | With so many urban areas on the coast it is not surprising that Herring Gulls nest on buildings in Sussex , and during the Operation Seafarer counts of 1969 between 106 and 131 pairs were found in the Hastings and St. Leonards district , and nests have more recently been recorded at Eastbourne , Brighton , and Worthing . |
| 26 | But its buildings have more recently been used as an exhibition hall and classrooms by the North East Wales Institute 's College of Art ( NEWI ) . |