Example sentences of "[adv] recently have " in BNC.

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1 He tried to spot any spy-flies lurking in this foyer , little spies which so recently had been his own to command , till they were stolen .
2 She thought that perhaps her manner was somewhat too bold for one who so recently had been only a governess , and now wanted to be even less .
3 It was odd , Hope thought , as he lay deeply sunk in the great feather mattress , how perfect and desirable such a dowry would so recently have been to John — for Mary was the only child and it was apparent that the landlord would give her everything .
4 She was studying at the Royal College of Music when she moved into Coleherne Court with Diana , and then went on to become an opera singer , pausing only recently to have a couple of children .
5 Yet only recently has he been affirming what he sees as the Bank 's main job : to attack outright poverty — measured , for instance , in crude terms of calorific intake .
6 Uranium mines are know to have an increased incidence of lung cancer owing to exposure to radon , but only recently has the importance of radon in the home been acknowledged .
7 Only recently has the importance of the timing of insulin injections in relation to meals become fully realised .
8 Only recently has British Telecom started modernising the equipment , introducing colour terminals for instance .
9 Only recently has the former begun to develop and the latter to redevelop .
10 Rather it is a historical fact that interpreters are provided in court ( see the Jean Campbell case , 1817 , referred to in chapter 3 ) and only recently has research to examine interpreting been undertaken .
11 That there is a conventional element in the distinction is shown by the fact that procedures expressed as programs can also be expressed by the hardware structure of machines : the principal programming language of AI is LISP , which has been in existence for about twenty years , but only recently has a ‘ hard-wired ’ LISP-machine been built , one in which the LISP programs are more straight forwardly isomorphic with the operations of the hardware .
12 Interestingly , though , the close ties with and influence of medicine have meant that only recently has an educational approach begun to emerge which is freed from the decision-making power of the medical profession , and from the diagnostic and treatment framework .
13 Only recently has El Salvador caught up with the " women and development " bandwagon and , in an attempt to modernize its image in the eyes of the rest of the world , on 7 March 1983 , opened its " Women 's Office " .
14 Only recently has it been discovered that they come to these special places to gather specific minerals such as kaolin which neutralise the poison they have absorbed from the seeds they eat at this season of the year .
15 Only recently has there been some serious debate within multiculturalism about the issues involved , although with very little guidance on how teachers are to approach and facilitate discussion around the inevitable questions which arise regarding the evaluation of different cultural representations , know ledges and practices .
16 However , these approaches tended to use geomorphological concepts of landform , and only recently has research examined how people actually see landforms , by using artists ' sketches ( Killeen and Buyhoff , 1983 ) and computer-generated models to produce artificial landscapes ( Guldmann , 1980 ) .
17 What must be appreciated , however , is that the system is still fairly new and still evolving and only recently has the full potential of the database approach in general , and the integrated payroll personnel system specifically , been realised to anything like its full extent .
18 True — but only recently has technology made it possible to destroy life faster than it can be replaced .
19 Is he aware that , in the case of telecoms , the price control formula started at retail prices index minus 3 and went on to RPI minus 4.5 and only recently has been increased to RPI minus 6.25 ?
20 Only recently has Louis been reappraised as an effective ruler in his own right .
21 Only recently has the opportunity to study politics as a distinct and legitimate subject been expanded within secondary schools .
22 Although some historians , often Marxists , have rejected this consensus , only recently have aspects of praxis , such as laboratory skills , been subjected to close and sustained study .
23 Although nineteenth century whalers discovered that many Of the strange calls at sea were the voices of whales , only recently have the songs Of cetaceans become familiar to the rest of the world .
24 Only recently have biologists , mainly at UCal and Oxford , begun to piece together what happens when selfish genes come into conflict with the common interest of all the genes in the creature they inhabit .
25 In terms of medical as well as architectural history , these buildings are of enormous interest , but only recently have they begun to be recognized as buildings of some value .
26 Only recently have we become aware that conventional English usage … obscures the actions , the contributions and sometimes even the very presence of women .
27 But only recently have I come to think of you as stupid .
28 Only recently have new roads made many of these self contained little hamlets accessible by land .
29 Manometry , electromyography , and scintiscanning have been used in adults in the investigation of colon motility but only recently have these been extended to the study of paediatric patients .
30 Much attention has been focussed on the failure of five different strikers to score goals , but only recently have others , and notably the outspoken Tony Cottee , started to appreciate the real problem at Goodison .
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