Example sentences of "have recently [be] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has recently been a limited recovery . |
| 2 | There has recently been a sharp rise of interest in artificial intelligence — very broadly the attempt to write computer programs to work at a human level of intelligence and performance in such tasks as identifying and recognising objects in cluttered environments , understanding ordinary human languages such as English , or diagnosing what is wrong in cases of human illness or machine failure . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , there has recently been a terrible saga of children who have been abused . |
| 4 | What Mr Eggar really meant to say was that there has recently been a high level of success in finding new oil and gas fields in UK waters during a worldwide downturn in exploration . |
| 5 | This will be an important and helpful clarification of what has recently been a vexed issue , and will undoubtedly have a bearing on pre-school provision . |
| 6 | In a similar vein there has recently been a whole range of studies of pre-industrial states by anthropologists , largely in terns of class analysis . |
| 7 | Some 24 per cent of children drop out at the transition from primary to secondary school , while at secondary level there has recently been a significant rise in the drop-out rate . |
| 8 | Nat West says that late payment has recently been a significant factor in the demand for bank finance . |
| 9 | Although the union 's supporters dominated the Polish government ( formed in September 1989 by Tadeusz Mazowiecki — see pp. 36896-97 ) , there had recently been a perceptible strain of resistance among the membership to its increasingly political role . |