Example sentences of "[verb] recently been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Det Insp Gordon Williams has recently been involved with raising money to set up a suite in Darlington where child abuse and rape victims can be interviewed in pleasant surroundings . |
| 2 | It has recently been involved in an international mission sent to Romania by the UN International Development Organisation to advise on pollution clean up . |
| 3 | ‘ We have reason to believe , ’ said the sergeant , taking no notice of the question , ‘ that this boat has recently been involved in illegal traffic , and that the said operation was centred on the island of Faarsay . ’ |
| 4 | He has recently been involved in the developments in sow housing and feeding which are of great interest to pig producers . |
| 5 | Iran has recently been prominent in world events , which has reminded outsiders that it has never been more important to understand the people of Iran , their culture and their traditions . |
| 6 | First , consider a firm which has a machine which originally cost £10,000 but has recently been surplus to requirements . |
| 7 | This approach has recently been subject to an effective critique by Forty ( 1986 ) , who points out that designers have always been handmaidens to the business interests they serve , and to separate them out as self-determined arbiters of cultural form is even less convincing than in the case of high art which strives for such autonomy . |
| 8 | From a turnover of less than £50,000 during its first year of business , the company expanded rapidly and has recently been instrumental in negotiating the £3 million Tetley Bitter sponsorship of the England team . |
| 9 | Having recently been involved in the revision of about 20 standards dealing with the analysis of iron , steel and ferro-alloys for the British Standards Institution ( BSI ) , I have just learned that in all these documents the spelling of sulphur is to be altered to sulfur , for the element and in the names of all its derivatives . |
| 10 | Grayson was a Plymouth merchant and yeoman of the crown , who had recently been involved in maritime activity against pirates in the south west . |
| 11 | Grayson was a Plymouth merchant and yeoman of the crown , who had recently been involved in maritime activity against pirates in the south west . |
| 12 | For example , on one occasion a youth was caught urinating in the street late at might , and was very respectful and deferential when caught in the act , but , upon the policeman recalling that he had recently been one of a group which had shouted abuse at him , an act expected from gougers , he was arrested , and the incident was treated as a case of indecent exposure . |
| 13 | Several comparable Government-funded libraries have recently been successful in obtaining ‘ one-off ’ grants from Scottish Office Departments for retrospective conversion , and I now recommend that Bob Crossman and I work together on putting forward a request for such funding from SO:AFD . |
| 14 | It involves visits to the homes of children who are either convicted offenders , children at special risk , or who have recently been involved in trouble and have come to the attention of the police . |
| 15 | As I said , apart from Spanish I am not a speaker of any of the other languages I have recently been involved in . |
| 16 | All five London Pest Control branches have recently been involved in intensive council flat cockroach and pharaohs ant treatments . |
| 17 | I have recently been involved in preliminary discussion with a private sector developer , and with British Coal , concerning two separate projects which could lead to the provision of serviced development land . |
| 18 | Central America and Israel/Palestine have recently been prominent in this work . |
| 19 | We have recently been concerned by prominent publicity in the media in Wales relating to the screening programme proposed by the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association and consider that more harm than good is likely to result from such a programme . |
| 20 | Conversely , people living outside the UK ( and who have recently been resident in the UK ) can continue to join and vote for the party even though the next Labour Government 's policies will have little direct impact on their lives . |