Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] recently [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attention has most recently focused on ensuring competition in regulated public sectors such as telecommunications , postal services , gas and electricity . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , I would be shocked , but not altogether surprised , if one day the spirit of the times , which has so recently blown away apartheid , communism and the Berlin wall , did away with the Royal Family as well . |
| 3 | where he has so recently expended himself , disappear beneath her skirt , pulled down in one deft movement . |
| 4 | The computer industry has only recently realised that , on the whole , ordinary people do not like computers and are only comfortable using them when they do not know they are doing so . |
| 5 | The idea still persists that organized Christianity has only recently stumbled upon these truths . |
| 6 | ‘ The awareness of what health promotion can achieve has only recently swung into the consciousness of upper policy makers . |
| 7 | The numbers of places in day nurseries ( the only state day-care provision ) declined steadily after the Second World War , and has only recently increased by a tiny amount . |
| 8 | And that puzzles me , because Knudsen has only recently gained critical regard in Denmark . |
| 9 | Given that HEBS has only recently moved from a topics-based approach , it is not surprising that schools still see the role of the health board in terms of help with specific topics and current health problems . |
| 10 | I must begin by rejecting a notion that is circulating at the moment that Christianity has only recently discovered the importance of green issues and has simply jumped on a topical band-wagon . |
| 11 | And the fact of George Carey 's criticism of massive pay rises to top bosses , and his sermon on the social responsibilities of wealth creation , is of concern to those bosses and wealth ‘ creators ’ because remarks that would have been unexceptional from other quarters came from the head of the established church — a case of the upstart vicar from Barking not yet fully appreciating the nature of his role within the establishment to which he has only recently secured entry . |
| 12 | Unlike yourselves , Dr Blake has only recently joined us , and there are a few people she should meet . ’ |
| 13 | ALTHOUGH already well established in the area of downhole data acquisition in the UK , the Group has only recently formed a company to penetrate this market directly in the United States . |
| 14 | It exists largely as a product of the institutions of higher education ( Sarsby 1984 : 132 ) and has only recently begun to surface in policy and practice . |
| 15 | The new techniques were used to ‘ improve ’ existing therapy , while fundamental research into the causes of diabetes has only recently begun to yield important results . |
| 16 | The powerful hydrogen bonding capacity of fluoride , discussed by John Emsley , has been known for some time , but its potential for interfering with the vitally important hydrogen bonds between biomolecules has only recently begun to receive attention . |
| 17 | It results from the attempt to provide relief from psychiatric illnesses and has only recently begun to be recognised . |
| 18 | The fund of music from Imperial Spain has only recently begun to be investigated with anything approaching seriousness , and the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the Americas by Columbus has provided an additional focus to unearthing further treasures . |
| 19 | Systematic comparative analysis of management strategies in industrial relations has only recently begun , the major work so far being Gospel and Littler ( 1983 ) which relates to the inter-war period . |
| 20 | Romania has only recently made abortion legal and Ceacescu 's legacy will be with them for decades . |
| 21 | At $5,550 , IBM Corp 's new 16″ colour Xstation 150 seems pricey , but then it 's built around the Motorola Inc 88110 which has only recently gone into volume production ( UX No 422 ) : thought to clock at 40Mhz IBM says the 150 outperforms its existing Xstation 130 by a factor of six at 115,000 Xstones , and comes with from 6Mb to 22Mb RAM . |
| 22 | A big cat that has only recently gone extinct is the sabre-tooth ( " tiger " ) , named after its colossal canine teeth which jutted down from the upper jaw in the front of what must have been a terrifying gape . |
| 23 | The aircraft had previously been flown in the USA as N190DH until a crash at Sellersburg , Indiana , on September 22 , 1987 , following which it was imported into the UK in 1989 and has only recently completed rebuild in the capable hands of Cliff Lovell , giving us a second airworthy DH.90 alongside Wessex Aviation & Transport 's G–AEDT . |
| 24 | In the sciences of course the possibility of pure objectivity has been a convenient and fruitful assumption , which has only recently run up against its limitations . |
| 25 | Needless to say , standards of rug-making went into rapid decline , and , exacerbated by the widespread introduction of poor quality dyes , the reputation of Anatolian rugs soon reached an all-time low from which it has only recently recovered . |
| 26 | The centre is family run and has only recently come onto the steam map . |
| 27 | He said ‘ The RS/6000 is not big now in Hungary , and it has only recently come off the Comecon list . |
| 28 | The road has only recently come to Uçagiz ; the whole area emanates a powerful feeling of being on the edge of the world . |
| 29 | The smallest breed is one that has only recently arrived from Singapore , where it was known as the ‘ drain cat ’ . |
| 30 | Buttimore has only recently returned to top rugby in England after two summers in Australia . |