Example sentences of "be [vb pp] since [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The implementation of Part V of the FSA ( covering Offers of Unlisted Securities ) has been delayed since 1986 and since that time the EC directive on prospectuses has been adopted . |
2 | The importance of work and employment to those with mental disorder has , however , been recognized since Victorian times . |
3 | The situation has been publicised since last year by the relief agencies and others , but the UN was slow to get involved . |
4 | A considerable amount of research on energy-based and energy-budget climatology had been undertaken since 1956 when Budyko ( translated 1958 ) attempted a heat balance of the earth 's surface and proceeded from equations of where |
5 | Gasoline had been rationed since 1978 , when oil output was reported so low that domestic needs could not be met . |
6 | Logging in the region has been halted since 1990 by court actions to protect the habitat of the northern spotted owl , leading to thousands of job losses [ see EDs 70 ; passim ] . |
7 | My tank has been matured since last December and I have lost a Fireball Angel , a Swallow Tail Angel and a Cream Angel . |
8 | AONBs have been designated since 1956 , the most recent in 1983 . |
9 | Most of this is obtained from the lakes of the Lake District ( see page 134 ) but the largest reservoir in Britain , Kielder Water , has been formed since 1980 by flooding low value farmland in the northern Pennines . |
10 | Reliable reports have been received since 1969 that the ghostly train runs along the old Louth-Bardney line , all accounts bearing witness to this remarkable phenomenon . |
11 | Thus 266 of 961 Housing Association houses have been completed since that date , 141 of 1201 local authority dwellings and 737 of 4395 private dwellings . |
12 | That kind of art has been forbidden since 1932 . |
13 | It is believed that the National Gallery has committed its entire purchase grant for the next three years towards the cost of the Holbein and , given the fact that purchase grants for national museums have been frozen since 1985 , other museums are similarly powerless both to acquire when the works come onto the market , and to match their export price when their licences are suspended . |
14 | The space available to Central Office was increased by the acquisition of St Stephen 's House as well as St Stephen 's Chambers , which had been occupied since 1874 ; the new office cost $3,000 a year in rent alone . |
15 | With minor exceptions , landlords have been permitted since 5th November 1973 to collect only the rent applicable before 6th November 1972 , plus half the difference between that rent and any higher rent agreed between the parties at normal rent reviews , or settled by arbitration , or otherwise determined . |
16 | As for the human rights record of Saudi Arabia , Amnesty reports the detention of political prisoners for long periods without trial — eleven have been incarcerated since 1979 . |
17 | As for the human rights record of Saudi Arabia , Amnesty reports the detention of political prisoners for long periods without trial — eleven have been incarcerated since 1979 . |
18 | The Government acknowledges that a total of 5000 ‘ disappeared ’ persons had been reported since 1981 . |
19 | On the other hand , there is no doubt that the USM 's distinct identity has been eroded since 1990 by convergence in the regulation and cost of joining the Official List and the USM . |
20 | It should be , however , noted that none of the complex anti-avoidance provisions that protect that boundary have been repealed : others have , in fact , been added since 1988 . |
21 | The NUM 's predecessor ( like the NUM itself ) was a federation of local miners ’ unions — The Miners ' Federation of Great Britain ( MFGB ) — with which the Nottinghamshire Miners ' Association ( NMA ) had been federated since 1888 . |
22 | Although long-lasting and generally reliable , their musical shortcomings were obvious and none have been manufactured since 1980 , although they are still in use in a few churches . |
23 | These hams are from Chippenham in Wiltshire , where they have been prepared since 1781 . |
24 | Surveys of radon in UK homes have been done since 1976 about 24000 homes will have been tested . |
25 | By 1939 one third of all the houses in England and Wales had been built since 1918 ; and extensive urban land absorption was in evidence particularly in the 1930s . |
26 | It has its roots in northern Europe , particularly Denmark , where more than 120 co-housing projects have been built since 1972 . |
27 | Although 24 large conference complexes have been built since 1975 and 22 new centres are expected within the next five years , hotels are still well placed to cater for conference business , as shown by the following table : |
28 | In 1721 she had 124 ships of the line and 105 smaller vessels , of which roughly a quarter had been built since 1714 . |
29 | on the the light of the commitments of which a substantial amount are act actually planning permission , and some four thousand odd will actually have been built since ninety one . |
30 | The little tern 's numbers have been threatened since Victorian times when it was hunted for its snow-white plumage . |