Example sentences of "[conj] a recently [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Command of the aircraft rests with the more experienced pilot , rather than the one of higher rank , so that the situation can arise Where a recently promoted sergeant is making the tactical decisions for a relatively senior captain . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Most agree that of all the candidates for the directorship of the National Gallery , Rusty Powell is perhaps the least art-historically rounded , despite having written several well received catalogue essays on American nineteenth-century paintings and a recently published monograph on Thomas Cole . |
| 4 | The accused , a 40-year-old police officer with a wife and a recently discarded mistress , claimed that the woman in question , to whom he had casually given a lift , offered him sex in return . |
| 5 | There are good fish restaurants and a recently opened camp site with full facilities . |
| 6 | The government was under pressure from Sinhalese right-wing critics ( including the Buddhist clergy , hardliners in the armed forces , and a recently launched Sinhala Defence League or SAS ) to crush the Tamil separatists , but nevertheless raised intermittently the expectation of a political solution . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Interest in ‘ Classics ’ was stronger , a Stearman YPT–9 Cloudboy sold for $87,500 ; an immaculate Cessna 37 Airmaster brought in $40,000 while a recently restored Cessna 195 realised $35,000 . |
| 9 | New evidence from the Middle East suggests that it may not be so simply explained , while a recently published account of a biologist 's view of the myths embedded in Genesis lends some colourful support to a broadening of outlook . |