Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have recently [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Eleanor Driscoll , a working-class housewife who has recently moved from a two-room slum into a local authority house , puts it like this : |
| 4 | The line-up was impressive , featuring Pops Staples , literally the founding father of the gospel band the Staple Singers and who has recently embarked on a solo career at the tender age of 77 ! |
| 5 | She gave the name of her father , who had recently retired with a substantial pension from a very senior appointment with a multi-national corporation . |
| 6 | Dr Kenneth Duncan was a biologist who had recently retired from the top management of the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 7 | Indeed , as Barry Rubin has pointed out in his seminal history Paved with Good Intentions , " Tens of millions of Iranians , particularly those living in the rural villages and even the many peasants who had recently migrated to the cities , accepted these clerical proclamations as guides top proper behaviour towards their King . |
| 8 | The kitchen was full of smoke , servants and Sara 's brothers , who had recently returned from a day 's hunting in the mountains and who were getting in everyone 's way by taking their boots off and leaving them to steam before the flames . |
| 9 | Khruschev sensed a chance to humiliate the young President , who had recently failed in an attempt to overthrow the left-wing government of Fidel Castro in the Caribbean island of Cuba . |
| 10 | Four thousand years ago a funeral pyre like this one was built for a woman who was either heavily pregnant or who who had recently had of a child . |
| 11 | There a chemist who had recently worked for a company involved in the manufacture of submarine telephone cables recognised its similarity to gutta percha — the material used to sheathe such cables . |
| 12 | Indeed the Next Steps Report found that : ‘ People who had recently resigned from the Civil Service told us that frustration at the lack of genuine responsibility for achieving results was a significant factor in encouraging them to move to jobs outside . ’ |
| 13 | One participant was Mrs Pat Scanlan , who had recently recovered from an operation to remove a spinal disc and decided to take up swimming to strengthen her back . |
| 14 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |