Example sentences of "only recently be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Denmark had in Cnut 's day only recently been converted to Christianity , and these authors are unlikely to have possessed much in the way of early documentary material , although like English historians they fairly clearly knew oral traditions which need not always have been groundless . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Britain 's most famous ice-skaters are relaunching their Olympic careers at an ice rink that has only recently been saved from closure . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Because the details have only recently been finalised with Paul Lexington . ’ |
| 8 | When he arrived to head the Department of Drawings in 1931 it had only recently been split from the paintings department . |
| 9 | It has only recently been recognised by MAFF experts , and media coverage has been misleading . |
| 10 | Xenly had only recently been segregated with the invention of the new ‘ control how you look ’ pills . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Smelling the fresh dust in the air he realised that the load of grain in the hopper had only recently been discharged into the stall . |
| 13 | British environmental groups had only recently been roused by appeals from Sweden and Norway . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ( 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 . |
| 17 | The budget , now whittled down to $160m , has only recently been approved by the General Assembly committee that does such jobs . |
| 18 | The lake they had been playing on is a former open-cast mining site which has only recently been transformed into a countryside park . |
| 19 | 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 . |