Example sentences of "it has recently " in BNC.

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1 Following legislative reforms , it has recently been making a big drive for personal pensions business which has proved successful .
2 It is unclear whether it has recently changed hands .
3 It is a relevant example because it involves one of the most searing of twentieth-century experiences , replete with both personal and broader political consequences , and it has recently been in the news .
4 But , ironically , it has recently opened a wing for old people , one of the most modern in Europe .
5 It has recently been suggested that some ancient solders did contain cadmium , using the cadmium sulphide mineral greenockite as source of the metal .
6 It has recently become an issue because it is so visible and entirely unregulated .
7 It has recently been involved in an international mission sent to Romania by the UN International Development Organisation to advise on pollution clean up .
8 If it is a wet day or it has recently been raining , so much the better for showing up leaks and dampness .
9 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 ’ .
10 It has recently been suggested that a good name for eruptions of this type would be ‘ Surtseyan ’ , after the eruption off Iceland in 1963 .
11 A current threat which exercises considerable concern in the UK is rabies , and it has recently been highlighted by the decision to build a Channel tunnel .
12 It has recently been deepened and widened to accommodate more boats but the picturesque setting has been retained .
13 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 ) .
14 But it has recently been shown quite independently by Andrew Feinberg and Bert Vogelstein at Johns Hopkins University that the DNA of tumour cells is much less methylated than that of normal cells from the same tissue .
15 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 .
16 Unless the Community has enacted legislation to apply the competition rules specifically to the activities of such undertakings , as it has recently done in the telecommunications sector , many public utilities such as water authorities , state postal services or state railways fall outside the competition rules .
17 Although it has recently become fashionable to subject judges to ( usually ill-informed ) public criticism , even in Parliament , and although it is no longer unknown for demands for the removal of judges to be voiced in the House of Commons ( as when Sir John Donaldson incurred opprobrium as President of the National Industrial Relations Court for applying the law which Parliament itself had passed ) Parliament has still , in modern times , to remove a judge in this manner .
18 It has recently been published .
19 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 .
20 Coopers & Lybrand 's insolvency team has analysed the reasons for the many unnecessary corporate failures it has recently dealt with .
21 It has recently raised its commitment to education from 4% to 5% of GDP .
22 Clearly , given the depths it has recently plumbed ( as shown in the Treasury survey above ) , there can not be much more downside even in the face of a tax-raising Budget .
23 It has recently created an international managed class of share designed for investors who require investments managed against the world 's leading currencies .
24 Ill health and bereavement are the most common needs for which the charity gives assistance — for example , it has recently helped a member whose career was terminated by multiple sclerosis to buy an electric wheelchair , and given a loan to a member 's widow reliant on state benefits to enable her to pay off the disputed partnership settlement debts accrued when her husband died .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 It has recently reopened to the public in newly-furnished galleries in the Walsall Museum and Art Gallery , while a new , illustrated catalogue has been produced .
28 In the USA it has recently slipped in rank to eighth position .
29 ( Euroniche ( 1989 ) alleges that it has recently been used on pigs in Utrecht . )
30 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 .
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