Example sentences of "recently [been] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former mayor Marion Barry , who had recently been convicted of cocaine possession [ see pp. 37647 ; 37769 ] , failed in his attempt to secure election to the city council , winning only 17 per cent of the vote . |
| 2 | In the other main cities of Scotland , where most city-centre residents are flat-dwellers , tenements being the predominant residential building type , several other large commercial or industrial buildings have recently been converted into dwelling complexes . |
| 3 | The International Herald Tribune of April 4-5 reported that 17 Syrian human rights activists had recently been sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to 10 years . |
| 4 | Mercedes 's offices have recently been searched by state prosecutors , acting on anonymous tips that Daimler illegally exported weapons-carriers to Iraq and that a senior manager had evaded tax . |
| 5 | Major improvements have recently been made to visitor facilities , with the provision of a new shop and car park . |
| 6 | The isolation of genes encoding proteins with known binding properties has recently been facilitated by selection technologies . |
| 7 | New legislation is ‘ on the stocks ’ and it is to be hoped that politicians will take note of the example of Gothenburg , Emissionsteknik 's home city , where all the buses have recently been equipped with exhaust catalysts . |
| 8 | The final , narrative report on the Intercultural Panel has recently been published in book form in Manila and New Delhi . |
| 9 | Perhaps the genetic linkage that has recently been described between type I and type II diabetes is a determinant of the β cell proliferative compartment and its response to early nutrition . |
| 10 | The potential use of databases for data analysis , and spreadsheets for the production of graphic output of numerical data , has recently been introduced to Laboratory staff , and should be built on . |
| 11 | Mr. Singh had recently been arrested on fraud charges arising out of his employment by Abbey Life Assurance Co . |