Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] since the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Attorney-General how many representations he has received since the beginning of December which have been critical of his reaction to Sunday opening of stores . |
| 2 | Before I do so I must say something about the way in which the U K economy has developed since the latter half of the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | All this has , of course , been made possible both by technological revolutions in transport and communication and by the lengthy period of free movements of the factors of production over a vast area of the globe which has developed since the second world war . |
| 4 | The fundamental novelty about social anthropology , as it has developed since the days of Malinowski , is that the fieldworking anthropologist tries to understand alien societies from the inside rather than from the outside . |
| 5 | Support for a new electoral system has developed since the mid-1970s , encompassing academics and politicians . |
| 6 | In this respect , at least , little has altered since the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Some have argued that the rise of the Happy Days mob shows how far Hollywood has fallen since the Seventies , the era of the Movie Brats . |
| 8 | That proportion has fallen since the mid-1960s . |
| 9 | Indeed the amount of oil spilt worldwide has fallen since the 1970s while the volume shipped has grown . |
| 10 | It is one of the world 's fastest-growing industries which has burgeoned since the Second World War , and especially since the 1960s . |
| 11 | However , it should also be noted that the interval between marriage and the birth of the first child has lengthened since the early seventies . |
| 12 | Trade with the Soviet Union has collapsed since the new year , when hard currency replaced the rouble as the main medium of transaction . |
| 13 | It is argued that the breadth and depth of the market in small company shares is suffering , particularly as the volume of trading in smaller company shares has dropped since the crash of October 1987 as investors have fled to blue chip shares , and the number of brokers cutting back on their small firms business has increased . |
| 14 | How far he has come since the days in Harry Fischer 's office above the tobacconist 's , with the cosy office jokes and the lunch time beers in the pub ! |
| 15 | They include , to give just a few examples , realizing that they have re-read the same page of a book three times without taking any of it in ; nearly getting knocked over crossing the road ; yelling ‘ Tie ! ’ at a pupil they do n't know ; noticing that they are both reading a magazine and watching the television while having their evening meal ; spotting the line of empty wine bottles that has accrued since the weekend . |
| 16 | Jimmy and Gwenda Cornell 's ARC team has grown since the first event in 1986 . |
| 17 | The second source of ‘ goodness ’ is from the centuries of human struggle which has endured since the dawn of civilisation . |
| 18 | As Marcus Binney and David Pearce put it : ‘ since its establishment in 1947 British Rail has acquired for itself an all too deserved reputation as the biggest corporate vandal and iconoclast Britain has seen since the Tudor dissolution of the monasteries ’ . |
| 19 | THE debate over the ordination of women has been the most heated the Church of England has seen since the Reformation . |
| 20 | With the spread of home ownership , a process that began in earnest during the inter-war years and has accelerated since the 1960s , the passing on of the family home will become an increasingly important aspect of defining who owns what , and confirming the advantages enjoyed by some groups of the population . |
| 21 | You watch the bronze figure of the man working the shadoof , which he has done since the time of the Pharaohs . |
| 22 | The parietal assemblages have the essential characteristics of a message : they respond to the needs and means that man has had since the Upper Palaeolithic to produce oral symbols in a material form by using his hands . |
| 23 | It has an appalling unemployment record , just as it has had since the war an appalling national health service waiting list record . |
| 24 | In a core from Morar , Dr H. J. V. Birks of Cambridge University found abundant remains of marine algae , providing good evidence that the sea has invaded since the ice age . |
| 25 | The decline has occurred since the 1950s , but little of the mistletoe on sale came from British sources . |
| 26 | The two economies distinctive and incompatible needs have been recognised in a development that has occurred since the committee met . |
| 27 | IRAN : Hundreds of prisoners , prisoners of conscience , continue to be executed each year in Iran , a pattern which has persisted since the proclamation of the Islamic Republic in 1979 . |
| 28 | Some are looking to sell their practices or merge their way out of problems that have been brought on by the severest recession the UK has experienced since the 1930s . |
| 29 | In a long briefing on the country 's military situation , General Ulomi said the Afghan army has proved since the Soviet withdrawal it is too powerful to be defeated and that the military option pursued by Pakistan and the US will fail . |
| 30 | The percentage of the older age groups who are female has increased since the beginning of this century . |