Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [vb pp] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your progress has been properly monitored since your highly improper return to the field . ’ |
| 2 | The Z-Score techniques originated in the US more than 20 years ago with a US professor , Ed Altman , at New York University , and has been continuously refined since then . |
| 3 | Aspiration of a foreign body during use of an inhaler has been infrequently reported since the first report in 1981 . |
| 4 | Legislation has been steadily extended since the Monopoly and Restrictive Practices Act of 1946 . |
| 5 | It was opened in 1976 on land owned by Darlington Borough Council but has been privately managed since 1978 . |
| 6 | The mercury content in fish from this area has been extensively monitored since 1970 by the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food [ MAFF ] , ICI and North West Water — and more recently the National Rivers Authority . |
| 7 | That view has been little heard since the 1960s , when London reasserted a traditional suzerainty over theatre and literary publishing , and that so silently , and so naturally , that the reversion passed almost unnoticed . |
| 8 | It is the public sector alternative to the price mechanism of ‘ the market ’ for allocating limited resources — an alternative that has been hotly debated since the origin of the Poor Law . |
| 9 | The protection of customers has been successfully achieved since privatisation and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State produced several examples . |
| 10 | The UN force in Croatia has been nearly paralysed since 22 January when Croatia 's army began to bombard Serb-dominated areas under UN protection , blowing apart a year old ceasefire . |
| 11 | DVI has been progressively enhanced since then , however , and is now based on an evolved form of a technique called Discrete Cosine Transform ( DCT ) . |
| 12 | Central authority has been progressively weakened since the outbreak of civil war in 1975 , and real political power in Lebanon now effectively rests with the leading figures of the rival militias which are organized along religious lines . |
| 13 | Gloucester city centre has been virtually closed since midday , but the police are anxious to stress that with recent bombings in other cities public safety must come first . |
| 14 | My attitude to doctors has been severely changed since then by having a kidney stone diagnosed as psychosomatic and ulcerative colitis as a stomach upset , so that I am far from reverential and have occasionally flirted with contempt unfairly . |
| 15 | It is a two-storey mill ( now open to the public ) which he built in 1752 , though it has been much altered since that time . |
| 16 | Space-age French designer Andre Courreges came up with a classic in 1964 that has been much copied since — the mid-calf , soft kid , white boot for women . |
| 17 | Which has been better governed since the war , Britain or , say , the Federal Republic of Germany ? |
| 18 | The Chinese may have been cavalierly treated since then . |
| 19 | Gómez is one of countless civilians believed to have been extrajudicially executed since 1980 by the military or ‘ death squads ’ linked to them . |
| 20 | It was also admitted that the city of Basra had been heavily bombed since the beginning of the war . |
| 21 | It is usually considered , though , that Ptolemy made a mistake with his co-ordinates , since the distance from London to his second Salinae also coincides conveniently with the distance to Droitwich , where inland salt production had been well established since prehistoric times . |
| 22 | The mayorazgos had been bitterly criticized since the sixteenth century for encouraging laziness as well as being an injustice to younger children . |
| 23 | Supplies of crude oil from Russia had been sharply reduced since Aug. 30 , so that reliance on the Ignalia nuclear power station near Vilnius ( whose reactor design was similar to that at Chernobyl ) increased , despite safety fears . |
| 24 | This had been substantially rewritten since publication of the first draft in February [ see pp. 37234-35 ] , some of the revisions reflecting conservative criticism of the party leadership , but as delivered by Gorbachev it still came across as a spirited defence of his perestroika reform policies . |
| 25 | Most had been forced to sell their private woodlands , which had been reverently preserved since the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | You are re-shaping your beliefs and re-examining your values that have been closely held since childhood . |
| 27 | Restrictive practices , which we discuss shortly , have been separately examined since the establishment of the Restrictive Practices Court in 1956 . |
| 28 | Since our article appeared , a group of experts convened by the EC has concluded that ‘ Although clay minerals have been widely used since the Chernobyl accident , the Prussian Blue compounds have been found to be more effective and easier to administer ’ . |
| 29 | The only herds of the animals which now inhabit the area are derived from animals that have been successfully reintroduced since the late 1930s . |
| 30 | Integration/segregation issues have been well aired since teacher s study of the early EMI homes ( 1972 ) , but much of the literature presents opposing views . |