Example sentences of "have recently been [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 A current threat which exercises considerable concern in the UK is rabies , and it has recently been highlighted by the decision to build a Channel tunnel .
2 This has recently been highlighted by the imprisonment , in January 1989 , of groups of forest dwellers who have obstructed the construction of forest roads ( Cross 1989 ) .
3 The first such patent has recently been granted by the European Patent Office to a Belgian company for any crop resistant to the herbicide Basta .
4 However , the " sweat of the brow " principle , affording copyright protection to works which are the result of labour only , has recently been rejected in the United States Supreme Court in Feist Publications Inc. v Rural Telephone Service Co .
5 The group has recently been supported by the ESRC and has run meetings on the Northern Sea Route ( NSR ) and Russian-Norwegian offshore disputes .
6 The right of an employee inventor to claim statutory compensation from his employer has recently been asserted before the courts for the first time in a series of three reported cases emanating from the Comptroller of Patents and the Patents Court .
7 And an allocation of £800,000 has recently been made towards the cost of providing a 40-bed unit for the elderly at Aberdare general hospital .
8 Much criticism has recently been made of the performance of routine police patrol .
9 In publications as diverse as Pharmaceutical Marketing and Country Life , reference has recently been made to the arguments at Westminster seeming increasingly academic , as EC directives move us irrevocably towards the single market .
10 To mark Johnson Matthey 's 175th Anniversary in 1992 , a donation of £175,000 has recently been made to the Johnson Matthey Educational Trust which provides annual scholarships to children of persons working in the precious metals industry .
11 The hotel has recently been extended with the addition if more rooms and restaurants .
12 ‘ A new hair-carding shop ( No. 54 ) has recently been erected at the west end of the works , built of corrugated iron , … adjacent is a small mortar grinding plant and concrete breaker for the use of the building department .
13 Game-birds are not the only species to be so affected and much concern has recently been voiced in the British media about the adverse affects of lead accoutrements on swans .
14 It should be noted that this view has recently been confirmed by the Council successfully prosecuting a person under the 1954 Pleasure Ground Byelaw .
15 This has recently been fulfilled in the combined relaying of the track and road surface of Lord Street , by Blackpool Corporation and Lancashire County Council .
16 A similar effect of Oct-1 in inhibiting binding to an adjacent sph site and thereby preventing gene activation has recently been documented in the SV40 enhancer ( 22 ) .
17 The longest shot of all must be Burma , though a locally-based UCLES ( University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate ) consultant has recently been invited to the country ( with British Embassy approval ) .
18 Rousseau ( 1755 ) , in his early accounts of the state of nature , attempted this heroic move , and he has recently been echoed from the feminist side by Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex ( 1971 ) .
19 This procedure is not often made explicit , but an overt commitment to the constructed-data approach has recently been expressed in the following terms :
20 Robin Knox-Johnson has recently been honoured at the Silk Cut Awards for his seamanship in navigating his yacht Suhali one way across the Atlantic with nothing more than an astrolabe , a cross-staff and a lot of skill , and then back without a mast , engine , radio or compass after a battering in a series of storms .
21 Under discussion for over 20 years , the project has recently been revitalized under the auspices of the Compagnie nationale du Rhone , with the backing of a number of members of the European Parliament .
22 Meanwhile , Wright has been transforming his management team , which has recently been completed with the additions of Reg Broughton from ICL , functioning as vice president of OEM sales and marketing and Carl Baldini , a founder of server start-up Enterprise Technology , as vice president of engineering .
23 Production decline has been slowed in Kakap [ LASMO 18.75 per cent ] as a result of a gas re-injection programme in the KF field and an infill drilling programme has recently been completed in the KH field .
24 Some support for her position has recently been given by the Court of Appeal in Olugboja .
25 The strength , and indeed the severity , of the rule has recently been emphasised by the House of Lords : Phipps v. Boardman [ 1967 ] 2 A.C. 46 .
26 There was no active retention program by ICL 's corporate archives , but ICL 's Technical and Social Archive held a complete set of documentation , which has recently been transferred to the National Archive for the History of Computing at Manchester University .
27 The county call-up goes to Steve Lewis , a left hand batsman and wicket keeper who has recently been transferred to the island station .
28 Gold has recently been discovered in the south Devon area ( MRP 98 ) .
29 This has recently been transported to the Macintosh under the name Textures and offers a level of control that exceed the capabilities of the LaserWriter by several orders of magnitude .
30 Light has recently been shed upon the organism causing Whpple 's disease .
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