Example sentences of "had [vb pp] since [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large crowd had gathered since early morning . |
| 2 | The Single European Act disappointed many federalists because it tended to codify practices which had developed since 1958 , rather than to reform the EC in any radical way . |
| 3 | All these rulers , however , with the exception of the King of Bavaria , confined their greetings to the minimum demanded by courtesy , indicating how far anti-French attitudes had developed since 1860 . |
| 4 | One of the leading dissidents reflected the wider view , when Winston Churchill thanked Mr Heseltine for the ‘ considerable distance ’ he had travelled since last year . |
| 5 | It opened the way for the transformation of the European system which Germany had dominated since 1871 . |
| 6 | The Elector of Hanover was known to hold little sympathy for the Tories , whom he felt had betrayed the Allies at the Peace of Utrecht , and few doubted that when George I became King the Tories would lose the political ascendancy they had enjoyed since 1710 . |
| 7 | Local Education Authorities were jealous of the autonomy that they had enjoyed since 1902 , and which had been consolidated in 1944 : they would not take kindly to being told precisely what to do , and even a persuasive circular about the organization of secondary education was too much for some of them . |
| 8 | Merchandise exports had stagnated since 1988 , as Greece lost some of its share of foreign markets in manufactured goods . |
| 9 | On the few occasions on which she and Hugh had met since that time , neither of them had ever said a word about that holiday . |
| 10 | The agreement came at the conclusion of a two-day meeting in Paris of the World Bank 's Egypt consultative group — the first time it had met since 1981 . |
| 11 | However , he said , even a cursory look at the figures showed that what really happened was not so much that Scotland had gained but the rest of the country was now becoming stuck in the kind of economic mess that Scotland had endured since 1979 . |
| 12 | It was achieved in a mood of almost stunned boredom amongst English opinion , confident that the dismantling of the United Kingdom as it had endured since 1707 or 1536 would not in fact take place . |
| 13 | By creating labour shortages on the land wartime conditions again led to an increase in wages and a strengthening of the wages board ( a decentralized system had operated since 1924 ) . |
| 14 | To avoid political embarrassment Queen Victoria had discouraged her cousin from settling in England but , as a prince of Great Britain , he was buried at St George 's chapel , Windsor , where his Garter banner had hung since 1835 . |
| 15 | In West Germany the socialist students ' organization , the SDS , had grown into the most successful and radical challenge to the status quo that the state had seen since 1945 . |
| 16 | The author set the context for his story with a lengthy but fairly conventional genealogy of the kings of France , tracing their origins back to the Trojans as Frankish historians had done since Merovingian times . |
| 17 | Miloš feared that this would fail and that the reprisals which the Turks might take would result in the loss of all the gains which the Serbs had made since 1815 . |
| 18 | ( The number had grown since 1832 because of increased wealth and population . ) |
| 19 | Many had to borrow money , a need that had grown since last year 's replacement of social security single grants for urgent needs or repairs by social fund loans . |
| 20 | Concern had grown since 1776 , when a newly independent United States had forged an alliance with France . |
| 21 | Manual workers ' expectations of family size had fallen , managerial workers ' expectations had risen since 1945 . |
| 22 | Armand Roy , were to be deployed in 10 observation posts on both sides of the " walls of sand " which Morocco had built since 1981 to enclose the two-thirds of the Western Sahara which was under its control . |
| 23 | That this had always been in the interest of Great Britain did not alter the fact that such interventions had tended since 1815 to favour liberal and nationalist causes . |
| 24 | Twenty minutes later the Tucker , Higgs and Kelly Cessna glided off the runway at Grand Bahama Island and tip-tilted one hundred and six miles north to the Abacos , cays where Sutherlands had dwelt since 1789 . |
| 25 | Finally , the rateable values were out of date as no revaluation had occurred since 1973 . |
| 26 | The first factor , the newspaper explained , was not important as no cases had occurred since 1972 , while ‘ the claim that high levels of nitrate cause cancer has yet to be proved . ’ |
| 27 | The comfortable feeling of friendship she had had since that night in August , when she had so firmly suppressed her teenage-flavoured infatuation , was what had allowed love to grow . |
| 28 | A peace commission to help bring an end to the separatist violence in Casamance , which had intensified since mid-1990 , was established on Jan. 2 ; the commission , made up of representatives from the government and from the separatist Mouvement des forces démocratiques de la Casamance ( MFDC ) , was placed under the mediation of the government of Guinea-Bissau . |
| 29 | The latifundia had persisted since Roman times : the descendant of the Roman villicus , the bailiff of the absentee landlord , still exploited the instrumentum vocale — the day labourer . |
| 30 | Presenting on July 26 , 1990 , the budget for the year staring July 1 , Finance Minister Chidzero stated that economic performance and living standards had deteriorated since 1982 . |