Example sentences of "a [noun] have recently [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smallfry had told him that a body had recently been dumped at the tunnel entrance where the beck came into view for several yards before vanishing again into the darkness below ground . |
| 2 | A Committee had been formed to see NVQ 's through and a meeting had recently been held . |
| 3 | The Primate of New Zealand ( where a woman has recently been consecrated as a diocesan bishop ) speaks of women priests bringing ‘ an overwhelmingly positive contribution ’ to the life of the church . |
| 4 | I understand that a report has recently been produced on the above topic . |
| 5 | In London a survey has recently been carried out of Holborn and Westminster area firms and the High Court taxing officers have accepted for 1992/3 the broad average direct cost for carrying out litigation in an area will be £88 per hour . |
| 6 | The Feoda therefore provides a revealing glimpse of aristocratic society in Champagne ; its full potential as a source has recently been exploited by Evergates . |
| 7 | If they are already nervous — if , for example , a predator has recently been harassing them underground — they may be less inclined to endure further stress and make a bolt for it as soon as the ferret shows itself . |
| 8 | All over the Western world an intelligentsia had recently been at war with itself : the screaming-point being reached and passed in 1935–6 , with Mussolini 's violent seizure of Ethiopia and the outbreak of civil war in Spain . |