Example sentences of "a recently [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They clung to each other , speaking in desperate whispers , sharing the shock and terror of a recently confirmed test result . |
| 2 | If Herod felt threatened by a recently born child , it can only have been because of what the child intrinsically was — a rightful king , for example , with a claim to the throne which even Rome , in the interests of peace and stability , might recognise . |
| 3 | This variable , and others approximating to those listed by Thieblot and Haggard , are included in a recently formulated model by Canadian researchers . |
| 4 | A recently discovered pair of still lifes by Antonio Ponce forms the highlight of this Old Masters paintings sale . |
| 5 | There is some evidence for all of this ; but a recently discovered inscription from Xanthos in Lycia ( SEG xxvii.942 = Mausolus M9 ) shows the satrap , Pixodaros , not the king , appointing a garrison-commander . |
| 6 | Nikolai Ryzhkov , the Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers ( Prime Minister ) , on March 14 threatened his own and his government 's resignation after his name was cited during exchanges in the Congress of People 's Deputies in connection with a recently discovered scandal centring on a plot illegally to export Soviet battle tanks to the West . |
| 7 | To the scribe of a recently discovered source of his Stabat mater , the composer was ‘ John Browne of Oxford ’ ( ‘ Oxoniensis ’ ) ; corroboration of Oxford as his working milieu is offered by the text of his eight-part O Maria , salvatoris mater , which includes among its invokees St Mary Magdalen and St Frideswide , the Oxford saint . |
| 8 | ‘ The blotter , the enamel mug , the tea towel and the diary are all important and there 's what looks like a recently struck match in the grate ; we need that . |
| 9 | He was a recently appointed lecturer in English literature and philosophy at London University College , and was expected to have a brilliant future . |
| 10 | The director ( who has an impressive record of quantitative research ) meets a recently appointed sociologist … |
| 11 | There were other gifts , too : new oak doors , given by Sir Geoffry Christie-Miller , adorned the side entrance ; cathode-ray oscilloscopes had been donated by Ferranti Ltd. and Professor Williams ( who had recently received the Hughes medal of the Royal Society ) ; £1 , 000 had come from the Sir Alan Sykes Trust towards the cost of the Sixth Form rooms ; and Mr. Charles Royle , MP and Old Stopfordian , and Mr. David Blank , Old Stopfordian and a recently co-opted Governor , were arranging to provide £100 to endow a Sixth Form Essay Prize in memory of the former 's father , a Governor from January 1923 until his death the previous November . |
| 12 | A search of the EMBL/GenBank and SwissProt databases using the FASTA program reveals that the CL100 nucleotide sequence is 86.6% identical to a recently characterized mouse cDNA ( 3CH134 ) for a growth factor-inducible immediate early gene and has significant amino-acid sequence similarity to the Ser/Tyr-phosphatase encoded by the late gene H1 of vaccinia virus . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , a recently completed tower in New York is based on early nineteenth century designs for Chippendale furniture . |
| 14 | A recently completed study with young children , supported by the ESRC , demonstrated a powerful method for helping children to learn to read and to spell by combining training in analysis of the sounds in words with training in constructing words with coloured plastic letters . |
| 15 | Finding space at a recently vacated table , she sat down , staring moodily at her juice . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't you know who I am ? ’ she had demanded imperiously of a recently conscripted Bengali . |
| 17 | With a recently announced expansion , won in competition against plants in the USA and Japan , methanol usage at Barry will more than double over the next five years . |
| 18 | When acting for a buyer of vacant land who intends to build on it , or for a buyer of a recently erected house , a hidden danger has recently been highlighted — the possibility that the foundations may be at risk of subsidence or of sliding either through infilling of the site , or a dangerous geological stratum . |
| 19 | As a recently joined member of CAMRA , I must say how appalled I was to read of the new rules for the Champion Beer of Britain Competition for 1992 . |
| 20 | After the congress the BSP confirmed its intention of appealing to the constitutional court against a recently enacted law on the confiscation of party property , one of the first measures brought in by the country 's first wholly non-communist government formed in November [ see pp. 38583-84 ] . |
| 21 | LOS ANGELES ( Reuter ) — Farmers Group of insurance companies , the California subsidiary of BAT Industries , yesterday said it has filed a motion in Los Angeles County Superior Court to stay a recently imposed state freeze on automobile insurance rates . |
| 22 | Therefore it is understandable that he won a commission at the turn of the century from a recently formed Board of Agriculture for 200 portraits of representative breeds . |
| 23 | As the managing director of a recently formed company with , to date , only one outlet , I was quite naturally looking for any help I could get , advisory or financially or both . |
| 24 | One week before the United Kingdom 's Foreign Secretary was due to arrive on an official two-day visit , leading dissident politicians belonging to a recently formed Forum for the Restoration of Democracy ( FORD ) announced on Sept. 4 their intention of holding a mass rally on Oct. 5 . |
| 25 | Halton council ( comprising the towns of Widnes and Runcorn ) in north-west England has signed a 20-year joint venture with a recently formed waste management company , Biomass Recycling , to reuse 98 per cent of the contents of domestic waste by 1995 . |
| 26 | The Last Word , a recently formed bureau using refugees from other establishments delivered its offering mounted on board , the only bureau to do so . |
| 27 | Respect for Animals , a recently formed pressure group , has chosen a hard-hitting anti-fur campaign as its first move . |
| 28 | Orimulsion is a recently patented mix of bitumen and water from Venezuela . |
| 29 | A recently patented process by the company Woodbenders has made it possible to make a made-to-measure arch with preformed wood or mdf . |
| 30 | Five licences were granted at one session at Singleton ; three related to tiny parcels , while a whole virgate was let by a recently admitted tenant to his brother , presumably the elder , the younger having inherited under the custom of borough English , and probably under age . |