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

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1 It has recently been announced that the gas-phase plants at Wilton and Rozenburg are to be expanded and uprated — at a cost of more than £20 million — to bring ICI 's total production capability to over 400 kta by early 1989 — 300 kta gas phase , the balance by the diluent process .
2 It has recently been recognised that there have been considerable liquidity problems both before and after Big Bang for some of the smaller companies listed on the ISE , prompting some calls for a two-tier market .
3 An engineering expert in stress told me that it has recently been discovered that two pieces of metal , indistinguishable unless subjected to sophisticated tests , react differently to precisely the same amount of stress .
4 It has recently been discovered that the Company purchased a small plot of land on the north-east side of the bridge for use as a permanent way yard .
5 Most astonishingly , it has recently been discovered that many trees send out messages of danger when under attack from insects .
6 It has recently been discovered that the woodwind instruments , too are capable of producing multiple sounds by means of unconventional methods in the employment of embouchure .
7 Indeed , it has recently been argued that no ‘ actual sentence of deposition , in the legal sense of the term ’ was pronounced against Edward .
8 Clearly , gifts of precious metal were something in which Cnut delighted , and it has recently been argued that the magnificently-illustrated gospel books which have survived from this period , and others which have not , were commissioned by Cnut and Emma for donation to favoured individuals and churches .
9 It has recently been confirmed as being by the artist now generally known as the Master of the Spinola Annunciation , a close collaborator of Giotto .
10 It has recently been edited and translated into English by D. R. Hill , who points out that ‘ horologically , it provides an important link between the water-clocks of the Hellenistic world and those of Islam ’ .
11 [ The norm in England and Wales is three years to honours , and in Northern Ireland there is a mixture of three- and four-year courses ; although it has recently been claimed that as many as 40 per cent of all British university undergraduates are on courses lasting four or more years , in modern languages , medicine , engineering , architecture and some business subjects ( Institute of Physics 1988 ) . ]
12 For example , it has recently been agreed that Incorporated Engineers will be listed in the Implementing Regulations ; SCOTVEC HNCs and HNDs are recognised as meeting the educational requirements for registration as Incorporated Engineer .
13 It has recently been proposed that variations in albedo with respect to latitude ( with considerable consequences for global climate ) are a result of both the changing distribution of continents and sea-level oscillations .
14 For example , It has recently been shown that a new drug ( misoprostol ) , if used prophylactically , can reduce the incidence of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug ( NSAID ) associated ulcers in those patients taking these drugs for their arthritis ( Graham et al , 1988 ) .
15 It has recently been shown that the TATA-binding protein TBP stabilizes a transcription complex on the VAI gene ( 35 ) and participates in assembling the yeast multisubunit transcription factor IIIB on tRNA genes ( 36 , 37 ) presumably by locking the TFIIIB-TBP-TFIIIC-DNA-complex ( 36 ) .
16 It has recently been shown that NO relaxes the human internal anal sphincter .
17 The site of acetylation of 5-ASA was widely assumed to be the liver , but it has recently been shown that the human colonic epithelial cell is capable of acetylating 5-ASA , and that N-acetyltransferase activity is present in the cytosol .
18 It has recently been shown that daily administration of high doses of fenbendazole to the bitch from three weeks pre-partum to three weeks post-partum has largely eliminated transmammary and prenatal infection of the pups , although residual infection in the brain may persist .
19 It has recently been suggested that some ancient solders did contain cadmium , using the cadmium sulphide mineral greenockite as source of the metal .
20 It has recently been suggested that a good name for eruptions of this type would be ‘ Surtseyan ’ , after the eruption off Iceland in 1963 .
21 It has recently been suggested that the scale and many-sidedness of working-class militancy at the end of the Great War reflects a partial shift away from the profoundly defensive characteristics of working-class culture .
22 It has recently been suggested that another major motive for fifth-century Athenian interest in the west was the desire for the abundant shipbuilding timber of southern Italy ( cp .
23 It has recently been suggested that cigarette smoking promotes anal cancer , and this finds indirect support in the synchronism between changes in anal cancer incidence and heavy smoking behaviour .
24 It has recently been suggested that chronic inflammation in patients with Crohn 's disease as well as peptic ulceration induces buds at the bottom of gastrointestinal crypts in the mucosa adjacent to ulcers .
25 It has recently been suggested that the synthesis of TNF-α is greatly increased in inflammatory bowel disease and that TNF-α could enhance the functions of natural killer cells , lymphokine activated killer cells , and polymorphonuclear neutrophils .
26 Indeed , it has recently been suggested that an absence from the colon of certain of these enzymes , especially specific forms of cytochrome P450 , may be involved in the comparatively high incidence rate of carcinogenesis in this organ .
27 It has recently been deepened and widened to accommodate more boats but the picturesque setting has been retained .
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