Example sentences of "have [be] a [adj] [noun] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been a managing director since 1986 and Deputy Chairman since 1990 . |
| 2 | As Table 9 shows , most of this expansion occurred in the private sector , where there has been a threefold increase since 1980 . |
| 3 | He was Isaac Woolfson Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Oxford from 1966 to 1992. was part-time chairman of AEA from 1982 to 1984 and has been a part-time member since then . |
| 4 | Insider dealing has been a criminal offence since 1980 under the Companies Act 1980 . |
| 5 | As lack of resources has been a perennial problem since the beginning the boost given to the financial status of the BDA by the patronage of The Princess of Wales has been of incalculable value . |
| 6 | The centre has been a great success since opening its doors a year ago and looks forward to celebrating many more birthdays . |
| 7 | Mr Chan , now the government 's Secretary for Trade and Industry , has been a civil servant since 1964 — almost all his working life , with the exception of a two-year excursion as executive director and general manager of a local finance company in 1978-80 . |
| 8 | While extensive tracts of virgin forest remain from which sawnwood and plywood are derived , there has been a growing trend since the Second World War towards fibre-based products from plantations and second- and third-growth forests . |
| 9 | In Italy , also , although industry agreements are still important , there has been a marked growth since the 1960s of decentralised bargaining at plant and company level , in contrast to the previously highly centralised system . |
| 10 | ( Giulio Andreotti has been a senior minister since the 1960s ) . |
| 11 | There has been a social centre since 1964 , used regularly by various groups , young and old . |
| 12 | I do not want to say that there has been a huge leap in the past year or so , because that would not true , but there has been a big leap since 1980 . |
| 13 | My master has been a broken man since that day . |
| 14 | The Hereford constituency has been a Conservative seat since 1931 . |
| 15 | WELSH wizard Jonathan Davies has been a prolific scorer since quitting rugby union to turn professional with Widnes in January 1989 . |
| 16 | It has been a common practice since ancient times to date official documents by the year of the rulers issuing them , or from within whose jurisdiction they emanated . |
| 17 | The People 's Republic of Mongolia has been a multiparty democracy since July 1990 . |
| 18 | Calheta ( 59km ) , which has been an administrative centre since 1501 , has a modified sixteenth-century parish church . |
| 19 | The Tibetan Plateau has been an unstable area since at least the Late Palaeozoic . |
| 20 | He has been an Honorary Officer since holding the position of Honorary Treasurer for a year in 1984/85 and since then he has been Northern Ireland Special Representative . |
| 21 | Norman has been an unknown quantity since injuring his right shoulder prior to last year 's Masters , then reinjuring it at the US Open in Minneapolis . |
| 22 | The Scottish wildcat is still being hunted despite having been a protected species since 1988 , according to a report from the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland . |
| 23 | It has a long tradition of settlement , the hill having been a fortified place since the mid-tenth century . |
| 24 | The Islamic Republic of Pakistan was proclaimed in March 1956 , having been a British dominion since the partition of the Indian Empire in August 1947 . |
| 25 | The Islamic Republic of Pakistan was proclaimed in March 1956 , having been a British dominion since the partition of the Indian Empire in August 1947 . |
| 26 | Sources in Banjul suggested that he was accused of mishandling the allocation of land for tourism development ; he had been a controversial figure since the end of 1988 when he was alleged to have sold donated drugs to the government . |
| 27 | He had been a non-executive director since September 1986 and was appointed to the LVMH Board of Directors in January 1989 . |
| 28 | Pilkington , the brother of Gloucester 's retainer John , had been a royal servant since the early 1460s and had been rewarded with land in the north midlands , bringing him within the duchy connection . |
| 29 | Pilkington , the brother of Gloucester 's retainer John , had been a royal servant since the early 1460s and had been rewarded with land in the north midlands , bringing him within the duchy connection . |
| 30 | Two years later Harris and his wife Mary became residents of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution for Aged Freemasons in Croydon ; he had been an active Freemason since 1818 , and in 1849 had published a set of designs for lodge tracing boards , which became standard for many years . |