Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] [v-ing] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | The representative collection of 20th century art which Lancaster University has been amassing since the 1960s and 1970s by purchase , gifts and bequests , is to be housed in a worthy new purpose-built annex to the already existing and refurbished Peter Scott Gallery . |
| 2 | TI has been sampling since August and indicates a high degree of interest in Tsunami as an X-terminal centrepiece . |
| 3 | Computer buff Steven has been jobhunting since graduating from London 's Imperial College four years ago . |
| 4 | That increase resulted in the rest of the world overtaking the European Community , whose investment had been falling since 1987 , reaching an all-time low in 1991 , with a share of just over 3 per cent . |
| 5 | Mohammed Siyad Barre fled to Kenya on April 29 after forces of the United Somali Congress ( USC ) captured the south-western town of Garbaharrey where the former President had been living since being ousted from Mogadishu in January 1991 [ see pp. 37946-47 ] . |
| 6 | Woolwich says six-month arrears are back to the levels of February 1988 and the Abbey National says short-term arrears have been declining since the end of last summer and repossessions are stable or falling . |
| 7 | The campaign has been running since 1963 and the object has been to encourage private or business premises to install some form of floral display . |
| 8 | This was a very different message from that which the British embassy in Washington had been delivering since August . |
| 9 | Certain British officers had been friendly with Saw , while Military Intelligence had been indicating since May that Saw was planning to seize power . |
| 10 | ( We can see how the new Aeschylean note that Nietzsche had been sounding since his lectures of 1870 was , like much else , in harmony with Wagner 's aspiration . ) |
| 11 | And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again . |
| 12 | The rest of the work was finished by the end of January and the Vale of Rheidol permanent way team has been ballasting since then and putting in check rails etc . |
| 13 | The GHS has been running since 1972 and is a large-scale survey designed to meet the information needs of a variety of different government departments . |
| 14 | ‘ Stand-to ’ , and a steady drizzle has been falling since 3 a.m . |
| 15 | ‘ Kenny has been competing since the junior level and he has done so very successfully , ’ said Mr Sullivan . |
| 16 | Though a draft directive has been circulating since 1984 it passed its final stages rapidly . |
| 17 | To offer a perhaps extreme example , the Gloucestershire clothiers who celebrated the completing in 1779 – 82 of the Stroudwater Canal had been trying since 1730 to intercept the coal supplies moving down the Severn from the pits of the Midlands . |
| 18 | Excavations have been continuing since the eighteenth century , and in the early years much was lost in plundering and in destruction by lack of knowledge of the work . |
| 19 | The DKBS workshops have been running since 1985 and were operated under Alvey Directorate as part of the Alvey IKBS initiative . |
| 20 | The nervousness in Downing Street is evident in the extent to which Major and his officials have been stressing since Clinton 's election that the two have a potentially good relationship . |
| 21 | The Service has been operating since 1987 , and began distance radio training straight away , followed in 1989 by print journalism . |
| 22 | In any case , there was more than enough to do in repairing the faults of the existing system and correcting the injustices which they and their predecessors had been denouncing since the 1920s . |
| 23 | ( Bronislaw Geremek of the Democratic Union , whom he had asked on Nov. 8 , had admitted failure on Nov. 13 , and Walesa had been seeking since then to find another alternative to Olszewski — see p. 38586 — reportedly preferring the reappointment of Bielecki . ) |
| 24 | It is hoped to achieve the 15% reduction in staffing by the employment of temporary staff as vacancies occur and this policy has been operating since 1 April 1992 . |
| 25 | The Universal Component System application development environment has been shipping since March 1992 at $3,500 to $10,000 . |
| 26 | The Universal Component System application development environment has been shipping since March 1992 at $3,500 to $10,000 . |
| 27 | The hon. Gentleman might like to know that last year saw record levels of exports from this country and that our share of manufactured exports in world trade has been rising since 1984 . |
| 28 | Funding Silotank has been operating since last year , but was officially opened yesterday at a reception attended by representatives of the organisations which have supplied funding for the venture . |
| 29 | London , of course , and our Amsterdam exhibition has been trading since the beginning of the year and the price increase is generally coming at the beginning of the season , which is more or less now for the parks , earlier for the exhibitions . |
| 30 | But , if underfloor engines and transmissions were to be used , they had to be in a different league of reliability and performance from the DMUs which BR had been running since the 1950s . |