Example sentences of "only recently [been] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denmark had in Cnut 's day only recently been converted to Christianity , and these authors are unlikely to have possessed much in the way of early documentary material , although like English historians they fairly clearly knew oral traditions which need not always have been groundless . |
| 2 | Britain 's most famous ice-skaters are relaunching their Olympic careers at an ice rink that has only recently been saved from closure . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Because the details have only recently been finalised with Paul Lexington . ’ |
| 5 | It has only recently been recognised by MAFF experts , and media coverage has been misleading . |
| 6 | British environmental groups had only recently been roused by appeals from Sweden and Norway . |
| 7 | ( 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 . |