Example sentences of "only recently been " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says : ‘ Although the medal has only recently been created , it was a proud and memorable day when we went to the Polish Embassy in London to receive it . ’ |
| 2 | It has only recently been recognised by MAFF experts , and media coverage has been misleading . |
| 3 | It continued to be so through more than two decades , and then — in the mid-1980s — it seemed , almost inexplicably , to be secure no longer , despite his having only recently been honoured with a knighthood for services to literature . |
| 4 | The demise of the picture-based magazines caused Doisneau real financial hardship which has only recently been alleviated by the boom in poster and postcard reproductions . |
| 5 | British environmental groups had only recently been roused by appeals from Sweden and Norway . |
| 6 | A node that is in the A2 ( secondary activation ) state ( either because its stimulus has only recently been presented or because it has been activated internally by means of an excitatory associative link ) will not be able to move into Al . |
| 7 | The value of one of the principal recommendations , the provision of psychiatric care to attempted suicide patients , remains controversial , and it has only recently been subjected to controlled evaluation ( Hawton et al. 1987 ) . |
| 8 | One hopes that Wyton , being a pre-war station , had a few more amenities than Bourn , which apparently had only recently been caved out of the mud . |
| 9 | FRACTAL geometry is one of those concepts which at first sight invites disbelief but on second thought becomes so natural that one wonders why it has only recently been developed . |
| 10 | Had he known that four Pakis were resting their dark arses on his deep leather seats , ready to be driven by his daughter , who had only recently been fucked by one of them , he would n't have been a contented man . |
| 11 | Some vineyards may not be mentioned because they have only recently been cultivated and , therefore , have not been in production long enough to establish any sort of reputation . |
| 12 | The lake they had been playing on is a former open-cast mining site which has only recently been transformed into a countryside park . |
| 13 | A Home Office spokesman said : ‘ The decision has only recently been made . |
| 14 | The Country Club has only recently been expanded to incorporate even more amenities … a delightful children 's pool . |
| 15 | The result is a very distinctive animal , which has only recently been properly classified . |
| 16 | Among the fragments of blackened paper he saw a used safety match , the unburnt half of the stem clean and white as if it had only recently been struck . |
| 17 | He said he was from the Harrow Road Station but had only recently been transferred there from West End Central . |
| 18 | More secure dating to 22–10/9 BC , between which dates the entire city was founded and built , has only recently been possible . |
| 19 | And many have only recently been explored : for example , recent research shows that in some species there are pronounced sex differences in feeding ecology ( Gautier-Hion , 1980 ) as well as in the effects of starvation on survival ( Widdowson , 1976 ) . |
| 20 | The budget , now whittled down to $160m , has only recently been approved by the General Assembly committee that does such jobs . |
| 21 | Pituriaspids from the Devonian of Australia , have only recently been discovered . |
| 22 | He said that the official in charge of antiquities at the Nasiriya Museum had received from the Americans a ‘ very small number ’ of terracotta objects dating back to the dawn of mankind and the Babylonian period , some of which had only recently been broken . |
| 23 | When he arrived to head the Department of Drawings in 1931 it had only recently been split from the paintings department . |
| 24 | The impact of article 10 has only recently been regarded as significant , but in the context of breach of confidence and of contempt article 10 has now assumed considerable importance . |
| 25 | We had never heard of such a thing ; and apparently it had only recently been catalogued , after a spate of Australian deaths on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 26 | As the earth there had only recently been dug , the grave became a kind of muddy pool . |
| 27 | The infrastructure of teaching hospitals is largely NHS ( rather than university ) funded and there has only recently been a welcome extension of this mechanism to general practice . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Less prominent , but quite possibly no less significant in energy pathways , are masses of heterotrophic choanoflagellates , bacteria and other small-to-microbial organisms , the presence of which , like that of the very small autotrophs , has only recently been perceived ( El-Sayed , 1987 ) . |
| 30 | ( 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 . |