Example sentences of "recently it [vb -s] be [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 More recently it has been recognised that students will benefit more from the provision of good quality language support than from long periods spent learning English in ESL courses and this has led to a shift in resources towards the mainstream classroom .
2 Kiwis use their noses to find buried food , and recently it has been discovered that magpies and other birds do as well .
3 For some fifteen years now researchers wishing to have special tabulations compiled from the 1961 census of England and Wales have been refused due to ‘ technical difficulties ’ , and more recently it has been discovered that the machine-readable ten per cent sample of the 1971 census for Scotland is no longer accessible ( Marsh 1980 ; Schürer 1985 ) .
4 More recently it has been appreciated that the mucosa significantly changes the composition of gall bladder bile by either the absorption or secretion of several constituents of bile .
5 ( 5 ) Very recently it has been shown that transplants of the SCN can be used to pass rhythmicity from one animal to another .
6 Very recently it has been shown that TFIIA is also able to dissociate negative components from TBP , thereby possibly acting as an anti-inhibitor ( 15 , 16 ) .
7 Recently it has been shown that Raman spectra may be obtained from a wide variety of samples using a combination of an interferometer capable of operating in the near-IR region and a near-IR laser .
8 Recently it has been shown that normal volunteers efficiently absorb an oral load of 100 g of rice starch with minimal generation of breath H 2 .
9 Very recently it has been shown that treating prediabetic mice ( that is , before they develop symptoms ) with various chemical agents , including insulin , will prevent diabetes from developing .
10 Recently it has been found that those old people who either have pets of their own or who have access to animals are often actually healthier — and are certainly happier — than those who have no such contact .
11 As we saw in this chapter , more recently it has been found that this account of processing can not be correct for at least three reasons : ( a ) there is evidence that syntactic and semantic processing is not delayed until the end of the clause ; ( b ) there is evidence that information about the specific wording is retained after the end of a clause if that clause contains nonspecific words which subsequent clauses will disambiguate ; ( c ) specific wording will also be retained if it has pragmatic significance .
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