Example sentences of "recently [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Rio de Janeiro , for example , a clerks ' strike recently paralysed the courts for three months . |
| 2 | While this is theoretically conceivable , every writer who has recently examined the problem has considered that in nature it must be a very rare event and certainly not a common factor in the evolution of animal traits . |
| 3 | There were other gifts , too : new oak doors , given by Sir Geoffry Christie-Miller , adorned the side entrance ; cathode-ray oscilloscopes had been donated by Ferranti Ltd. and Professor Williams ( who had recently received the Hughes medal of the Royal Society ) ; £1 , 000 had come from the Sir Alan Sykes Trust towards the cost of the Sixth Form rooms ; and Mr. Charles Royle , MP and Old Stopfordian , and Mr. David Blank , Old Stopfordian and a recently co-opted Governor , were arranging to provide £100 to endow a Sixth Form Essay Prize in memory of the former 's father , a Governor from January 1923 until his death the previous November . |
| 4 | ‘ Having recently received the April publication of Hospitality , I should like to place on record the vast improvement on previous issues that has been accomplished . |
| 5 | He has recently received the following letter from Paul : |
| 6 | My right hon. Friend has recently received the excellent report by the CBI 's manufacturing advisory group which showed that there had been a transformation in manufacturing performance during the 1980s . |
| 7 | I have recently received the new Waterways Code produced by British Waterways in which is outlined etiquette for anglers , boaters , canoeists and walkers alike . |
| 8 | Quayle Munro has recently undertaken the review for the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , on the options for private sector finance with regard to water and sewerage in Scotland . |
| 9 | It had recently withdrawn the ice-breaker Endurance , generally taken as a clear sign of retreat . |
| 10 | But perhaps the greatest personal satisfaction was earned by Gerard Larrousse as he watched Aguri Suzuki finish sixth in the Larrousse-Lola and poke a championship point in the eye of those who had recently stripped the French team of its hard-won rewards from last year . |
| 11 | We have recently completed the sale of 54 cottages , bungalows and flats in central Didcot , built by Secure Retirement , the development being the first of its kind in the Town . |
| 12 | According to Rob Strachan , who has recently completed the field work for a Water Vole Survey of Britain , funded by the Vincent Wildlife Trust , only 30 per cent of the sites where water voles were found before 1939 still have them today . |
| 13 | The owner , Bob Bruynse has recently completed the renovation of the public areas . |
| 14 | A major exhibition of Tibetan art opened at the Royal Academy on 18 September as reports are coming out of Tibet that the Chinese have recently completed the ‘ restoration ’ of the Dalai Lama 's Potala Palace and the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa . |
| 15 | Expert Systems Ltd has recently completed the final stage of an Alvey funded project , producing a graphical debugger for Prolog programs . |
| 16 | A report in the New York Times in late March 1990 quoted US intelligence sources as saying that Iraq had recently completed the construction of six launchers for its al-Husayen missiles at the H-2 air base in western Iraq near the Jordanian border . |
| 17 | She has recently completed the Science Foundation Course of the Open University , but has had to postpone further study in the sciences for the time being because changes in Modern Language teaching at the Sixth Form College where she works have consumed so much of her time and energy . |
| 18 | Rob has recently completed the first leg of the Round the World Yacht Race . |
| 19 | Syria , Egypt and several Gulf states have recently given the coalition use of broadcasting equipment for a Radio Free Iraq . |
| 20 | SHEFFIELD Church Street Branch was recently given the opportunity to foster international relations with bankers from the former Soviet Union . |
| 21 | This is proven by the fact that they have recently given the go-ahead to introduce a wheelie-bin scheme which envisages no recycling whatsoever and at a cost to poll tax payers of £1.25m . |
| 22 | This is proven by the fact that they have recently given the go-ahead to introduce a wheelie-bin scheme which envisages no recycling whatsoever and at a cost to poll tax payers of £1.25m . |
| 23 | With the band too , being in mufti , one can pick out some of the five ladies who have recently joined the band . |
| 24 | If you 've recently joined the NCT , or you have a new baby then let me know and I 'll put you in contact with another member who lives nearby . |
| 25 | He has recently joined the West Mercia Police Force as the UK 's first robot policeman , Sam . |
| 26 | THE stock market has been kind to new firms which have recently joined the ranks of public companies . |
| 27 | China has recently joined the NPT and agreed in principle to observe some limits on its missile sales . |
| 28 | In a speech on 17 December 1945 Kim stressed the necessity for creating a wide range of party organisations in factories , enterprises and villages with the formulation of suitable criteria for party membership so as to eliminate some of the dubious elements which had recently joined the party . |
| 29 | The story relates that an abbot was pouring tea for a young novice monk who had recently joined the monastery to learn kung fu . |
| 30 | WE welcome the following who have recently joined the north east region : |