Example sentences of "since [adj] [verb] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Aldana 's rapid rise within the PCC since 1986 had reflected the growing importance of a reformist trend in the party , and his demotion suggested the increasing concentration of power in the hands of President Fidel Castro Ruz , in response to the current deep economic crisis [ for July changes to Constitution see p. 39000 ] .
2 Although the station was non-operational for a few years following the disaster it was fully operational again by April 1979 and since 1985 has had a modern Tyne class lifeboat on station to cover the wide stretch of north-east facing coast around the port .
3 They strenuously advised business people and others to support the Conservative party , which since 1979 had promoted the new British spirit of enterprise and attracted £2bn worth of overseas investment to the region .
4 Indeed , the years since 1979 have witnessed a continuing struggle between local and national government .
5 Although a succession of Conservative governments since 1979 has expressed a firm belief in monetary methods of managing the economy , with the emphasis on controlling inflation , it is fair to say that the empirical justifica-tion for much of this policy has been thin .
6 To find out what books have been published on topics of interest one can use the British National Bibliography , which since 1950 has listed every new work published in Britain , accumulating from weekly to monthly and to annual publication .
7 Although the Commonwealth immigration acts since 1962 had slowed the inward flow from Commonwealth countries to a trickle , the problems of assimilating the black population now resident were as acute as ever , especially during the period of rapidly rising unemployment .
8 The years since 1981 have seen a steady transformation in the campesinos ' lives .
9 Initially the stated aim had been to promote economic and cultural co-operation , but the revolutionary developments in Eastern Europe since 1989 had added a new dimension , the grouping coming to be viewed as a vehicle for bringing emergent east European democracies into the Western fold .
10 The work is necessary because the increasing complexity of world affairs since 1945 has caused the academic literature on it to become increasingly fragmented .
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