Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] since the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it should also be noted that the interval between marriage and the birth of the first child has lengthened since the early seventies . |
| 2 | Trade with the Soviet Union has collapsed since the new year , when hard currency replaced the rouble as the main medium of transaction . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The PLCND group has campaigned since the early 1980s for the unconditional removal of all British and American nuclear weapons from UK territory . |
| 6 | The restoration of the warehouse and the adjoining 457m ( 500yd ) length of canal is viewed with enthusiasm by the Wey and Arun Canal Trust , a society which has worked since the early 1970s for the complete restoration of the Arun Navigation and the Wey and Arun Junction Canal between Pallingham and the River Wey , and which has restored the opportunity for navigation to several stretches of these waterways . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , within the variations and local conditions , if we are thinking in terms of a specifically televisual addition to the forms which the novelistic has taken since the Greek romance , the organization of narrative around the expectation of interruption seems to me to be central . |
| 8 | Correspondingly , if , as is t e case , we know only what has happened since the big bang , we could not determine what happened beforehand . |
| 9 | There is general , though not unanimous , agreement that profitability in British industry has declined since the early 1950s . |
| 10 | There are no plans to end the maximum part-time option , which has existed since the early days of the NHS . |
| 11 | This arrangement has existed since the mid 1970s . |
| 12 | Even while the various rugby groups in South Africa are heading for unification , the New Zealand Rugby Football Union still can not quite make up its mind how quickly it should bridge the gap which has existed since the tumultuous Springbok tour of New Zealand in 1981 . |
| 13 | This may reflect the fact that society has changed since the early days of sociology , and religion and its associated values , emotions and beliefs is no longer as important as it used to be . |
| 14 | The second point I want to make is in relation to something that has changed since the approved strategy and that is the inter-relationship between North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire . |
| 15 | For the first 11 of those paddling years he never heard of the BCU and it was only through his activities with the Air Training Corps and their involvement with the Devizes to Westminster Race that he got drawn into the position of race Publicity Officer which he has held since the late 70s . |
| 16 | Parliament on March 20 passed legislation allowing the establishment of independent radio and television stations and news agencies , thus ending the state broadcasting monopoly which had applied since the early 1950s . |
| 17 | It brought the worst economic turmoil that this country had seen since the industrial revolution . |
| 18 | It was the worst violence Moscow had seen since the failed coup of August 1991 . |
| 19 | The air and water temperature had risen since the early morning frost ; the water level and colour remained the same . |
| 20 | No aggression had occurred since the previous session a week earlier . |
| 21 | Technology had advanced since the appalling slaughter of the Great War . |
| 22 | Policy was conducted with ‘ a light touch ’ : save for the period of the Great War , when censorship and other controls operated , the Third Republic ( 1870–1940 ) was the most liberal regime France had experienced since the early phase ( 1789–92 ) of the Great Revolution . |
| 23 | Barcelona became once more a great Mediterranean port — its trade , which had been the pride of medieval Catalonia , had quintupled since the early years of the century — and it now started its career as an industrial city . |
| 24 | The owner wished to reconstruct the wharf structure which had disappeared since the active days of the waterway , but no drawings or photographs of this feature could be found . |
| 25 | Above all , he established a rapport between himself and the leading noblemen , his companions in arms , which formed the basis of the longest period of political stability the country had known since the early years of Edward I. These achievements , however , had their price . |
| 26 | I had to stand on tiptoe to reach the brass knocker , which had appeared since the previous day . |
| 27 | I mean , neither of us had eaten since the early hours , and drinking on an empty stomach is dodgy . |
| 28 | And this , in spite of some effort on my part to prevent it , led to the subject of science fiction , and where it had gone since the original efforts of Swift and Verne and H. G. Wells . |
| 29 | The French crown , it is rightly argued , had a definite policy with relation to the sea which it had followed since the early thirteenth century . |
| 30 | The following spring the same duo , neither of whom had climbed since the previous autumn , was optimistically toying with the idea of opening the season with Dream of White Horses on Gogarth . |