Example sentences of "has only recently [been] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It has only recently been recognised by MAFF experts , and media coverage has been misleading .
3 A Home Office spokesman said : ‘ The decision has only recently been made .
4 These include ecclesiastical records , and a large collection in the Departmental Archive which has only recently been made available to researchers .
5 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 .
6 The capacity to monitor UOS pressure for prolonged periods has only recently been developed .
7 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 . ’
8 The Country Club has only recently been expanded to incorporate even more amenities … a delightful children 's pool .
9 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 .
10 For reasons unknown this privilege has only recently been denied the young rugby followers of today .
11 The remainder of the Sighthill Section extending northwards from the Murray Burn to the Edinburgh/Glasgow Road ( A8 ) has been the subject of a Public Inquiry and the line of this part of the road has only recently been confirmed by the Secretary of State .
12 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 ) .
13 Britain 's most famous ice-skaters are relaunching their Olympic careers at an ice rink that has only recently been saved from closure .
14 Endobiliary brushes were introduced in the mid-1980s but their use has only recently been publicised .
15 The budget , now whittled down to $160m , has only recently been approved by the General Assembly committee that does such jobs .
16 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 ) .
17 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 .
18 Of the seventeen pieces in this collection , which survives complete only in the second edition of 1533 , no fewer than eight — only seven in the 1533 version — are by Philippe Verdelot ( d. c. 1540 ) , a Frenchman who lived in Italy from a very early age , two ( three in the second edition ) are by an Italian , Costanzo Festa ( C. 1495–1545 ) , one is by another Festa , Sebastiano , of whom we know nothing , one by a mysterious ‘ Maistre Jan ’ or Ihan who has only recently been identified as ‘ a French-born musician active at the court of Ferrara from 1512 to about 1543 ’ , and the remainder by still more shadowy characters .
19 The lake they had been playing on is a former open-cast mining site which has only recently been transformed into a countryside park .
20 The West has only recently been allowed to see into Russian orphanages , as English charities have provided food for the children there .
21 Endobiliary biopsy has only recently been introduced after the manufacture of biopsy forceps that are small enough to enter the biliary tree without a sphincterotomy .
22 Familial adenomatous polyposis ( FAP ) has only recently been shown by clinical and molecular studies to encompass the two conditions formerly known as Gardner syndrome and polyposis coli .
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