Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] [adv] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the term ‘ untrainable ’ may still be found in official classifications of mental handicap to describe the profoundly handicapped , it has been recognised officially since 1971 that no child is ineducable . |
| 2 | This has been recognised periodically since the 17th century . |
| 3 | As Marx ( 1989 ) has discussed , the science of genetic engineering has been developed only since the 1940s and especially since the 1970s , but its origins really began with the efforts of Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel who , in the mid-nineteenth century , established the principles of heredity . |
| 4 | Some of the most significant work of industrial archaeology has been done here since 1959 , and the industrial buildings and relics of the district are in the hands of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum ( q.v . ) . |
| 5 | The direct tram service between Fleetwood and Blackpool has been maintained continuously since 1898 , with the single exception of winter 1963/4 when buses ran between Blackpool and Cleveleys . |
| 6 | It is , therefore , a site of some strategic significance in any military context , a fact which has been recognized continuously since Roman times , when , at least under Agricola if not before , a fort was established here . |
| 7 | It is easy to see how fertility has been kept low since the middle of the twentieth century , and how the control over its timing given by contraception could permit a new pattern of fertility fluctuation . |
| 8 | Slate has been quarried here since the fourteenth century , and continuously since at least Tudor times ; in those days there were many separate quarries extracting the valuable material for use as roofing , flooring , field walls and so on . |
| 9 | Disabled 17-year-old Vicky Hoey who also suffers from epilepsy has been devastated ever since Penny , a four-year-old Tibetan spaniel , escaped from the family home in Morecambe Street , Tuebrook , Liverpool , on Saturday . |
| 10 | The authorities in Bosnia-Hercegovina ( whose independence , proclaimed in March — see p. 38832 — had been recognized widely since early April — -see pp. 38848-49 ) repeatedly requested foreign military aid and there were warnings that a flood of refugees , both Moslems and ethnic Croats , could pose a serious problem for neighbouring countries . |
| 11 | Modern publications were consulted by readers much more frequently than older material : 85% of all issues were twentieth-century publications , and 42% had been published only since 1970 . |
| 12 | At his trial the magistrates urged that the Book of Common Prayer had been used ever since the time of the Apostles . |
| 13 | There were two projects on his mind : one was the little prose book which had been " clogging his system " , to employ another of his own phrases , since the mid-Forties , and the other was the new play which had been postponed effectively since 1939 . |
| 14 | Rallies had been held repeatedly since March 26 in Dushanbe , the capital , organized by the opposition parties calling for the resignation of the Supreme Soviet Chair , Sarafali Kenjayev . |
| 15 | The territory belonged to the King of Holland who was quite willing to part with it , and although the transfer would have meant the removal of a Prussian garrison which had been installed there since 1815 , Bismarck at first seemed indifferent to the transaction . |
| 16 | Others have vanished , like the rich abbey of St Jean d'Angely where the head of St John the Baptist had been venerated ever since its miraculous discovery in the mid-eleventh century . |
| 17 | Pressures on household and corporate borrowers have been eased significantly since last October by a series of interest rate reductions , which have reduced base rates by a cumulative four and a half percentage points to date . |
| 18 | Three Westinghouse designed PWRs have been built there since 1974 and a fourth will be running by 1985 . |
| 19 | Courses have been run continually since 1812 in this part of the Academy , and with its impressive frontage , parade square and greensward leading down to the lake , it dominates the grounds . |
| 20 | These have been kept only since 1822 . |
| 21 | These have been kept only since 1822 . |
| 22 | Deaths due to HIV infection have been recorded prospectively since 1988 . |
| 23 | Ospreys have been recorded annually since 1947 , except in 1948 , but since 1961 numbers have almost doubled . |
| 24 | The prizes , worth £1,500 each , have been awarded annually since 1919 on the recommendation of the Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh . |
| 25 | This publication stems from one of the five seminars that have been held regularly since early 1979 in Edinburgh , convened by Dr Anthony Jackson . |
| 26 | Some half dozen new submarine cables have been laid annually since 1945 , the longest of which runs for 15,032km . |
| 27 | As you will know , the original proposals for National Testing of P4 and P7 pupils have been changed somewhat since last year . |
| 28 | Legal aid fees have been improved substantially since then . |
| 29 | Secondly , it is possible that the beach gravels have been eroded away since their formation . |