Example sentences of "be [verb] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people grow up frightened of what may come after this life because their minds have been filled since childhood with ideas of hell and damnation , judgment and punishment . |
| 2 | Though many more polar homeotherms have been examined since then , evidence to the contrary has been slight . |
| 3 | The lawsuit has been delayed since September , when the three states vowed to reach an out-of-court compromise . |
| 4 | The implementation of Part V of the FSA ( covering Offers of Unlisted Securities ) has been delayed since 1986 and since that time the EC directive on prospectuses has been adopted . |
| 5 | There were widely held concerns over the funding of the mission , the dispatch of which had been delayed since November 1991 when the leaders of three of the four factions returned to Phnom Penh , the capital . |
| 6 | An ECU 500 million ( about US$625 million line of credit for food and agricultural products guaranteed by the European Communities ( EC ) to the former Soviet Union , which had been delayed since November , was finally granted to Russia alone , it was announced on March 4 by Deutsche Bank , whose Luxembourg subsidiary was the lead bank of the consortium providing the credit . |
| 7 | After over 300 days in space the cosmonaut Sergei Krikalyov returned safely to earth from the Mir space station on March 25 , his return having been delayed since December . |
| 8 | All over Spain , rebel officers put into action the plan they had been elaborating since December of the previous year . |
| 9 | Ill-feeling between the government and opposition was so serious that the National Assembly had been paralysed since convening in June , following the March 1992 general election . |
| 10 | They had been queueing since early morning in front of the larger shops and the department stores in Sauchiehall Street , Renfield Street and Argyle Street to buy blackout cloth . |
| 11 | Viral hepatitis has been recognized since the Second World War as being divisible into two distinct types . |
| 12 | The importance of the AER in stimulating limb outgrowth has been recognized since the 1940s . |
| 13 | The problems which derive from the decline in the industrial structure which gave rise to the North East as an industrial region have been recognized since the 1930s , and until the coming to power of the present government the same core strategy informed attempts to resolve them . |
| 14 | The importance of work and employment to those with mental disorder has , however , been recognized since Victorian times . |
| 15 | Lord Taylor said the Court of Appeal had heard evidence from two new witnesses , Samantha Wilson and Sara Dennis , who had been traced since the trial . |
| 16 | There is an habitual inability to see the logical wood for the emotional trees , as the less discerning will have been proving since the final whistle sounded at Celtic Park . |
| 17 | The situation has been publicised since last year by the relief agencies and others , but the UN was slow to get involved . |
| 18 | The mystique of the rapid has been building since day one , and now , at cocktail hour , Crystal assumes demonic proportions . |
| 19 | A considerable amount of research on energy-based and energy-budget climatology had been undertaken since 1956 when Budyko ( translated 1958 ) attempted a heat balance of the earth 's surface and proceeded from equations of where |
| 20 | Although the archive has been used from time to time by researchers in pursuit of specific information , no general survey of the contents has been undertaken since the death of Lord Beveridge in 1963 . |
| 21 | Great care has been taken in the compilation of this guide , but we would advise you to check that particulars have not been altered since the guide 's publication . |
| 22 | In appearance everything had been altered since then , and — so far as looks went — much for the better , but nearly everything he cared about most was enshrined in these earliest recollections . |
| 23 | ‘ This is typical of the way we have been treated since the days of mass vesting of land , much of which was surplus to requirements . ’ |
| 24 | Rachel , Herbert Varley 's wife , had been helping since the very beginning . |
| 25 | ( By contrast on Nov. 2 the Bank of France had lowered the intervention rate , the traditional bench-mark rate for French lending which had not been adjusted since Oct. 17 , 1991 , by 0.25 percentage points to 9.35 per cent . |
| 26 | Gasoline had been rationed since 1978 , when oil output was reported so low that domestic needs could not be met . |
| 27 | Innovations in the curriculum included vocal music and Natural Science ( though lectures on Geology , Chemistry , and Zoology had been arranged since as early as 1871 ) . |
| 28 | In Nigeria , for example , alley-cropping has been developed since the 1970s . |
| 29 | A related , though significantly different , approach has been developed since the 1960s in the community education movement . |
| 30 | Many other psychoanalytic theories have been developed since Freud . |