Example sentences of "[be] only recently that " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It 's only recently that I 've felt able to write about him , but the controversy about Down 's Syndrome babies has brought it all to the surface .
2 It 's only recently that a reasonable range of database offerings have appeared specifically for Windows .
3 Well it 's only recently that she 's started drinking orange juice I know But she has n't liked it at all .
4 It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good .
5 My object at this stage is simply to depose the concept of society as an organism in which , far more subtly than we can measure or identify ( it is only recently that we have begun to identify the chemical balance of the human organism of society ) , a certain balance between tendencies and elements , many in themselves dangerous , destructive and evil , has to be maintained as a condition of survival , but a balance which can be endangered , or lost , reversibly or irrevocably .
6 It is only recently that I discovered that we are all born potentially good , demanding love and wanting nothing more than to give it in return .
7 The constant movement of troops through these areas caused great economic dislocation for the local populace and it is only recently that a number of Civil War ‘ hoards ’ have been found .
8 Today is the actual anniversary of the tragic night in Tottenham when Eubank crushed Watson — and it is only recently that the Islington fighter has started to make a real recovery .
9 It is only recently that feminists have come to realise how many other changes are needed if women are to share power with men and have recognised that the gender order must change , with men undertaking ‘ women 's work ’ as much as women entering the men 's public domain .
10 It is only recently that Elizabeth and Helen have had the benefit of a full-time manager whose job is to provide support , supervision and leadership to staff working in their home .
11 It is only recently that the municipal authorities and hospital boards have begun to discuss the possibility of changing the insurers ' conditions of funding so that they are more permissive of non-medical intervention and support .
12 Moreover , it is only recently that some have engaged in such strategic thinking at all .
13 Some additional information has emerged but , unfortunately , mouse chromosomes have not responded well to the high resolution techniques developed for human chromosomes and it is only recently that a higher resolution idiogram has been published ( 14 ) .
14 It is only recently that the DES has introduced ethnic monitoring in mainstream institutions and some LEAs embarked on equality targets .
15 ‘ It is only recently that Robert Gordon 's University has opened up the field for people to do courses like this without having to leave home for long periods . ’
16 Although the CNAA system had been in operation since 1964 , ‘ it is only recently that it has made almost total inroads as far as the central , advanced colleges of technology in Scotland are concerned ’ .
17 However , it is only recently that the connection of reference in general to indexicals has begun to concern those philosophers with an investment in logical semantics .
18 It was only recently that a police presence had been withdrawn from No. 22 after the Pitt deaths .
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