Example sentences of "has [adv] recently [verb] " 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 | Unlike thinking , which has been discussed by philosophers and systematised by logicians ever since the Ancient Greeks , problem solving has only recently become an object of study . |
| 7 | Documentary evidence of the economic damage caused by these animals has only recently become available with the institution in Italy of a programme to refund farmers for losses caused by wolves , which are legally protected . |
| 8 | Though the exact nature of the symbiosis between pastoralists and plains game has only recently become understood , administrators in close contact with the Masai could see that somehow the two did co-exist , and they took exception to the idea that in order for game to thrive the Masai would have to be removed . |
| 9 | The immunity enjoyed by clownfish from the venomous tentacles of the anemone has only recently become properly understood . |
| 10 | The aim would ultimately be for a speaker independent system , allowing continuous speech , with a large vocabulary , and this has only recently become a practical possibility as speech recognition methods have shifted to phoneme-based systems , using transitional probabilities and methods such as hidden Markov models to allow sequences of phonemes found in English ( or whatever language is being considered ) and reject others . |
| 11 | Bear in mind that the densely planted tank has only recently become popular . |
| 12 | But this view is probably due to our imperfect knowledge of the remains of this period in East Anglia , bearing in mind , too , that with the shortage of good building stone most of the buildings would have been in timber , the excavation and interpretation of which has only recently become a normal archaeological technique . |
| 13 | Closely related to the question of syntax is another feature of difference that has only recently become clear , as linguists have studied " real " as opposed to idealised language data . |
| 14 | In art history a large part of electronic data processing takes the form of cataloguing works of art , and only a small proportion of research concerns pattern recognition or digitization of images ; in musicology it has only recently become possible to study scores directly input to the computer without the mediation of alphanumeric code . |
| 15 | It is this multivocal quality that distinguishes prose fiction from poetry , as Mikhail Bakhtin , the great Russian theorist whose work has only recently become well-known in the West , observed : |
| 16 | THE name of Burston has only recently become associated with the Company , but is now a major centre for the South East Region . |
| 17 | ‘ The awareness of what health promotion can achieve has only recently swung into the consciousness of upper policy makers . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And that puzzles me , because Knudsen has only recently gained critical regard in Denmark . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Unlike yourselves , Dr Blake has only recently joined us , and there are a few people she should meet . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It results from the attempt to provide relief from psychiatric illnesses and has only recently begun to be recognised . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |