Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have recently [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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1 | He wrote a short book entitled What Happened in Burma , described on the cover as ‘ the frank revelations of a young Burmese revolutionary leader who has recently escaped from Burma to India ’ . |
2 | Eleanor Driscoll , a working-class housewife who has recently moved from a two-room slum into a local authority house , puts it like this : |
3 | Robert Hanson , who has recently returned from working in Hong Kong , to join his father 's firm . |
4 | J.R. Chan , the Managing Director of Sakata UK , who has recently arrived from Japan , made a press statement in which he said : ‘ The introduction of an automated robot-operated assembly line will eliminate this fault and , meanwhile , we are considering a recall of all the new Glory models . |
5 | One evening Rachel invited her to dinner , to meet some old family friends who had recently retired from academia and moved to London . |
6 | Dr Kenneth Duncan was a biologist who had recently retired from the top management of the National Radiological Protection Board . |
7 | They were named as Col. Mangwane Khosana , Gqozo 's former right-hand man who had recently escaped from custody facing treason charges , and Lt.-Gen. |
8 | Yet Grigori Medvedev , the chief engineer at Chernobyl in the 1970s , says in his recent book ( see page 125 ) that Soviet-made Geiger counters registered high levels of radiation on men who had not yet been into the zone , and nothing at all on those who had recently emerged from it . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | In 1961 an Institute of Latin America was established at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow , on the recommendation of Anastas Mikoian , who had recently returned from Cuba . |
11 | Legislative power was to be vested in a 50-member ( of which 25 would be elected ) High Council of the Republic , to include three former civilian presidents from the 1960s who had recently returned from exile — Hubert Maga , Justin Ahomadegbe and Emile Zinsou . |
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 | Both groups had claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on Antonio Rios , former president of the Confederation of Workers of Venezuela ( CTV ) and a leading member of the ruling Democratic Action ( AD ) party , who had recently resigned from his post to face trial on charges of influence peddling . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | These patients were all members of a family of Kurdish refugees who had recently arrived from Turkey , not patients from the AIDS wards or clinic . |
16 | The excuse for this trip was to visit Val 's brother and his family , who have recently moved from Regina in the middle of the prairies , to these more temperate and scenically more exciting shores . |