Example sentences of "have recently [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It seems to be fuelled by two opposing factors : a love of Donovan ( ‘ He thinks it 's lovely , very , very lovely ’ ) and an aversion to the Happy Mondays ( whose Shaun Ryder has recently recorded his own interpretation of the same song ) .
2 It seems to be fuelled by two opposing factors : a love of Donovan ( ‘ He thinks it 's lovely , very , very lovely ’ ) and an aversion to the Happy Mondays ( whose Shaun Ryder has recently recorded his own interpretation of the same song ) .
3 An independent church survey has recently recorded rates of still births at 10 times the national average , along with a high number of skin and respiratory diseases .
4 A further central belief has recently begun to appear as equivocal , namely loyalism itself .
5 However , allowable concentrations of pesticide in drinking water are 3 to 4 orders of magnitude lower than those for nitrate , and BGS , on behalf of the NRA , has recently begun to study the fate of pesticides in subsurface waters .
6 And the part played by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate in monitoring and advising on the quality of work in higher education has recently begun to increase in a remarkable way .
7 The latter term , usually an acronym for ‘ quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization ’ , has now entered popular usage , indicating the interest which quasi-government has recently begun to attract .
8 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 ’ .
9 In the words of one former senior civil servant , who has recently retired , the DoI ‘ has become an interventionist department within a non-interventionist government ’ .
10 But urgently needed is a BBC radio engineer , maybe one who has recently retired .
11 One way of overcoming judicial resistance might be to incorporate a sentencing council as part of the Court of Appeal , and the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders has recently advocated this as a compromise solution ( NACRO , 1999d : 33 ) .
12 The two and a quarter petrol engine on my Series III 1983 SWB has recently developed a noticeable ‘ tapping ’ noise , but only when running cold or under load , e.g. towing or climbing a hill .
13 Schwarzkopf has recently developed a unique new perming method and an exciting range of natural hair colours .
14 He has recently ventured into an export business and hopes this will flourish with the lifting of sanctions .
15 Alan Macfarlane has recently argued that the social pressure to enforce them was less strong in England than elsewhere .
16 However , as John Springhall has recently argued , there is little evidence that teenagers suffer anything like an ‘ identity crisis ’ during their adolescent years .
17 This has generally been assumed to have been the result of competition from the adaptively superior North American mammals , but Marshall ( 1981 ) has recently argued that at least some of the extinction was caused by changes in the physical environment .
18 The OECD ( Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ) has recently argued that governments are not likely to be successful in securing increased public sector efficiency unless there is a greater role for the price mechanism and market forces .
19 Michael Anderson has recently argued that in many areas factories offered a type and range of employment that could keep the family together , for co-residency of kin was complemented by the practice of hiring relatives in factories .
20 Indeed , Parry has recently argued that it is only under the conditions of a relatively free market that there is evidence for the entirely disinterested gift , in which calculation should be entirely absent , this being a product of the same emergent duality ( Parry 1986 ) .
21 However , Stemberger ( 1984 ) has recently argued that the grounds for treating open and closed class lexical items as coming from two separate vocabularies are not convincing since many of the differences in error patterns for the two classes can be explained by differences in the frequency of items in the two classes , and by differences in the potential frequency with which certain kinds of error can occur for items in the two classes .
22 He has recently grown a blond beard .
23 However , China has recently pledged to accede to the NPT and that must represent a welcome breakthrough , if it is serious .
24 Clearly , given the depths it has recently plumbed ( as shown in the Treasury survey above ) , there can not be much more downside even in the face of a tax-raising Budget .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 However , Aracy Lopes da Silva , who has recently done research with Shavante females , tells me that : ( a ) Shavante females have considerable strength within the ‘ domestic arena ’ , and ( b ) Shavante males are often gentle with women and children when interacting within the domestic field .
28 To characterize only recent French thought as ‘ the logic of disintegration ’ , as Peter Dews has recently done , masks over the fact that such a logic is fundamental to Marxism itself , the unassimilable dark other to its ‘ primacy of the category of totality ’ .
29 The rise in house prices , which has recently done so much to increase the capital owned by a sizeable group of the population , has made it increasingly difficult for other people , and particularly those whose parents are poorer and who do not own a house , to join the ranks of the upwardly mobile , capital-accumulating home-owners .
30 She has recently done a six-figure deal with Carol Smith for world volume rights in three books by ‘ bestselling novelist and TV personality ’ Denise Robertson , the first of which will be published in September 1994 .
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