Example sentences of "[conj] have be [verb] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Snodin provided an authority in central midfield that has been lacking since the departure of Peter Reid and Rideout said : ‘ Ian Snodin made the difference with a little bit of class . |
| 2 | To continue in 1991 with the same blatant colonialism and imperialism that has been conducted since the days when Christopher Columbus invaded the Americas , the imperialist powers have combined their increasingly sophisticated and deadly military machinery with slick psychological warfare . |
| 3 | Though the Boston Compact on which other Compacts have been based was only signed formally in 1982 , it represents the culmination of a relationship between Boston schools and local industry that has been developing since the early 1970s . |
| 4 | Normally , airlines and governments keep quiet about terrorist threats , a silence that has been criticised since the Lockerbie disaster a year ago , when secret service information on suspected sabotage was kept back . |
| 5 | One of his greatest achievements was to complete the theory of the so-called Diophantine linear equations , a subject that had been studied since antiquity ( Box A ) . |
| 6 | SALT I , the most important of these , placed limits on the further construction of intercontinental nuclear weapon systems by both sides ; it was intended to remain in force for five years or until superseded by a more comprehensive agreement , and it was the first real fruit of negotiations that had been proceeding since the late 1960s . |
| 7 | In the same year Felix Klein , in his famous inaugural address at the University of Erlangen , stated his aim of using group theory to bring a unity to the various classical geometries that had been found since the announcement of the first non-Euclidean one by Lobachevsky in 1829 . |
| 8 | They could , in fact , be described by a particular solution of Einstein 's equations that had been known since 1917 , found by Karl Schwarzschild shortly after the discovery of general relativity . |
| 9 | This seemed like a Falangist revival , for it was the first session that had been held since 1945 and Franco asserted that it was " necessary that the National Council should recover the role which corresponds to it in the political tasks , because it is hierarchically the highest body in the Movement , whose duty it is to ensure the purity of the organization and the continuity of the doctrine " .18 But many of those present , including the Vice-Secretary of FET , Diego Salas Pombo , detected behind the smokescreen of verbiage a lack of genuine commitment to Arrese 's plan for a Falange-dominated future . |
| 10 | European overlordship , however , was to prove incompatible with the notions of Arab nationalism that had been growing since the end of the nineteenth century ; and it was no surprise that this would become apparent first in the most advanced country in the region , Egypt . |
| 11 | Clouthier 's policies were frequently ill-defined but they nevertheless brought back into the political debate conservative ideas that had been scorned since the 1917 Mexican revolution . |
| 12 | This , to use a definition of the American , Stanley Ellin , one of the writers to have given us short stories to equal any that have been written since crime and the short story met ( read his The Speciality of the House ) is any story so long as it deals with " that streak of wickedness in human nature " . |
| 13 | I welcome the changes that have been made since then and the leadership which my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has given the country . |
| 14 | State of Fear : Censorship in Burma is one of the 28 ‘ Country Reports ’ that have been published since 1989 by ARTICLE 19 . |
| 15 | Milk and honey are just two kitchen cupboard stand-bys that have been used since ancient times in beauty routines , so give these recipes a go . |
| 16 | We do n't have a in our business as many other retailers do where for instance after Christmas may be and other such things to clear we do n't have that , so there is n't any merchandise that 's been sold since Christmas that has been sold because we do n't want it to be in the inventory post year end it 's it 's just generating trade by being discount price left so therefore to a certain amount your question would be has the post Christmas and it was pre Christmas no material difference we 're very satisfied with the gross margins since Christmas we have n't had to take any extraordinary measures to generate this erm this level of sales increase that 's being achieved at constant margin a flat margin |
| 17 | The family has occupied less and less of this house since the World Wars , every generation a little less — Christabel 's room was in the east wing that 's been closed since 1918 , except for use as some kind of a glory-hole . |
| 18 | The Islamic Republic of Mauritania , formerly part of French West Africa , gained full independence in 1960 and has been ruled since a military coup in 1978 by a Military Council of National Salvation ( Comité militaire de salut national — CMSN ) , headed by a chairman ( currently Col. Moaouia Ould Sidi Mohamed Taya ) who is President of the Republic and whose executive power derives from a Constitutional Charter published in 1978 . |
| 19 | Arafat , determined to rally Palestinians behind the deal , began the round of meetings on Thursday and has been struggling since then to overcome opposition of at least four of the 12 members attending , Palestinian sources said . |
| 20 | The Thomas Cook European Timetable has been published since 1873 with a break only during the Second World War ; Thomas Cook Overseas Timetable lists countries outside Europe and has been published since 1981 . |
| 21 | Many of the farmers were older ( 45–64 years of age ) and had been farming since school days , with attendance at training courses their only form of further education . |
| 22 | The seat had been Tory since 1970 and had been held since 1974 by Sir Charles , who retained it with a sizeable personal vote . |
| 23 | Drift-nets were first developed by the Japanese , and have been used since 1905 . |
| 24 | There remained uncertainty as to whether the warring militias , particularly the forces led by Gen. Mohammed Farah Aydid , would respect the presence of a UN force to oversee a major relief operation , as had been proposed since April ( but still not finally approved ) . |