Example sentences of "[verb] recently [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story is recounted by the unnamed founder of the Mnemosyne Institute in Philadelphia , an elderly widower who has recently retired after making his millions as instructor to ‘ executives , politicians and members of the defense establishment ’ . |
| 2 | He has recently ventured into an export business and hopes this will flourish with the lifting of sanctions . |
| 3 | Adapting data from known insulin resistant states such as obesity and non-insulin dependent diabetes , O'Dea has recently theorised on the nature of metabolic adaptations which might have favoured survival in Australian Aborigines in the context of their traditional hunter-gatherer diet , where ‘ feasts ’ on wild animals such as kangaroos were characteristically high in protein and relatively low in fat and carbohydrate . |
| 4 | Unless the Community has enacted legislation to apply the competition rules specifically to the activities of such undertakings , as it has recently done in the telecommunications sector , many public utilities such as water authorities , state postal services or state railways fall outside the competition rules . |
| 5 | The bookshop chain has recently gone through a period of rapid expansion and now has 42 sites . |
| 6 | Leech has recently gone into business selling office chairs . |
| 7 | Stern has recently gone into business assembling hang gliders . |
| 8 | Spain has recently gone into business manufacturing office chairs . |
| 9 | The problem with the Minister 's logic is that his colleague , the other Under-Secretary of State for Employment , the hon. Member for Wantage ( Mr. Jackson ) has recently gone on record saying that he believes that women should have pay parity with men in accordance with the law . |
| 10 | Sir Keith Joseph has recently gone on record as saying that he wished that examiners could be more objective in their assessment of what children know . |
| 11 | Concern for this issue has recently surfaced in studies that were indeed set up originally to try to isolate the factors that determine which among a selected sample of children are likely later in life to have a schizophrenic breakdown . |
| 12 | It is true that an inability to legislate upon certain matters might render a constitution prone to crisis but on others it would be far from necessarily fatal and at least one judge , in a common law country , has recently acceded to the proposition that he might be prepared to disavow the power of the otherwise unlimited New Zealand Parliament to enact law providing , for example , for human torture . |
| 13 | Wildebeest movements follow , at a distance of a few days , the pattern of rainfall ; but they only keep moving so long as rain is falling or has recently fallen within the area scanned by their senses . |
| 14 | Clark ( 1990 ) has recently referred to the ‘ myth ’ of the Anglo-Norman scribe and has collected a large number of comments from early in the century up until very recently from the work of distinguished scholars , in which attested forms are typically said to be ‘ Anglo-Norman ’ and therefore rejected . |
| 15 | The French theorist Lyotard has recently pointed to the fragmentation of intellectual culture . |
| 16 | A damp patch has recently appeared on our extension wall . |
| 17 | He has recently appeared at festivals such as the Edinburgh Folk Festival , Burnley Blues Festival and the Wirral International Guitar Festival . |
| 18 | A huge hole has recently appeared in the layer above the Antarctic ice cap . |
| 19 | The First Orchestra has recently appeared in venues as far apart as Worcester Cathedral , Dunkeld Cathedral , Huntly Parish Church and the Usher Hall , and also enjoys a number of foreign links which have taken them to Denmark , Bavaria and Italy within the last few years . |
| 20 | WITH IMPRESSIVE improvements complete at Welshpool , attention has recently turned to Llanfair station . |
| 21 | The 22-year-old public relations officer , who has recently moved to Alton from London , was among seven contestants , twenty-year-old Kerry Campbell was the runner up and Vicky Wadhams , also 20 , a nanny from Selborne , was third . |
| 22 | Alan Middleton has recently moved to Aberdeen with Christian Literature Crusade , pray that he would settle into his new role in that place and that Alan would be open to what God would do through him in the coming months . |
| 23 | may be delayed when dementia sufferer lives alone , or is not well known in the community ( eg crowded city areas ; living in multi-storey blocks , or has recently moved to a new area ) . |
| 24 | Joanne , who is also 21 , has recently moved to Sheffield . |
| 25 | He has recently moved to Bohemians club ) in Dublin and is playing ok . |
| 26 | With the help of his actress friend , ex-James Bond baddie Barbara Carrera , he has recently moved into film making . |
| 27 | Would it be enough , for example , that a person published material to a handful of his neighbours urging them to make life difficult for a black person who has recently moved into the neighbourhood ? |
| 28 | Now someone whose doctor is elderly could quite naturally refer to him or her using ( 45 ) where superscript 3 indicates rising tone while mid tone is indicated by the absence of a superscript numeral : ( 45 ) The following sentence : ( 46 ) is also perfectly acceptable , and might even be translated by the same words of English but it carries instead the meaning that the person concerned ( who might be twenty-six years old and a fairly fresh graduate from medical college ) has been established as one 's doctor for some time and is not , for example , another practitioner who has recently moved into the district . |
| 29 | Clearly , wealth has recently moved in tandem with the savings ratio . |
| 30 | Sir Duncan Nichol has recently moved in this direction ( letter to regional general managers , 22 Dec 1992 ) . |