Example sentences of "recently [vb pp] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have recently moved to this village and I have never been so bored in all my life . |
| 2 | The former leader of the Social Democratic Party was recently sentenced to two years eight months imprisonment for corruption ; the former Socialist Foreign Minister , Gianni De Michelis has had his parliamentary immunity lifted so he can be tried for misuse of office . |
| 3 | These were unhealthy developments according to the hardliners Yang Shangkun and Bo Yibo , recently restored to political activity after the Party 's Third Plenary Session in December 1978 . |
| 4 | Paradoxically , the availability of the Invalid Care Allowance ( until recently restricted to single carers ) may sharpen the dilemma , for if some alternative financial support is available ( albeit not generous ) giving up work becomes a real possibility . |
| 5 | In a desperately competitive climate , where anyone bright and competent could go down the road and pick up a better paid job with kinder hours and more congenial working conditions from someone like British Telecom , the railways ran a service dependent on people who belonged to a narrow and inbred working culture , with outdated procedures of training and promotion , and an institutional reliance on overtime working , whose wholly disgraceful dimensions are symbolised by the fact that maximum weekly hours were only recently cut to 72 hours a week . |
| 6 | Cassoni was recently shunted to one side by Olivetti . |
| 7 | Another and in some respects even more powerful exemplification of the use of symbols by Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic man is to be found in hitherto little noticed marks on antler and bone artefacts recently subjected to intensive study by Alexander Marshack with the aid of high-magnification photography . |
| 8 | Replies are coming in to the questionnaire on VDU use which was recently issued to all staff . |
| 9 | A questionnaire was recently sent to all students and trainees , asking for their views on the qualifications . |
| 10 | In reply to your points in the letter to Graham Dann ( 12 March ) , we are certainly doing our best to find sponsorship , and I enclose copies of letters recently sent to public companies in search of support . |
| 11 | Although making mo' movies is his main focus now , the comedian recently returned to stand-up comedy because , he said , he found himself unhappy without an outlet for his anger at social injustice . |
| 12 | She has only recently returned to full duties , and was treated for shock and minor cuts . |
| 13 | FO Well , our non-ferrous metals limit has usually been one milligramme per litre , they have recently changed to 0.5 milligrams per litre now . |