Example sentences of "[verb] [be] a [adj] [noun sg] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | As 105 puts it : It is hard to miss the wit in such poems , or in the earlier profession of incompetence : It would be a dull-witted reader who interpreted such poems literally , or who took au pied de la lettre such conventional statements of bondage as this : Self-depreciation ( sometimes called ‘ the modesty topos ’ has been a rhetorical device since the beginnings of literature and continues in full flourish today . |
| 2 | In the SAS he undoubtedly learned rather more than that , including the survival skills which he has had to draw on so often in expeditions which have not always gone according to plan.He has been a full-time explorer since he was 25 and ‘ like everybody else , in every career , you do n't retire until you have to , ’ he says.His CV reads like a non-stop Boys Own adventure — shooting up the White Nile in a hovercraft , parachuting on to the Jostedalsbre Glacier and negotiating more than 4,000 miles of Canadian and Alaskan rivers.Between 1979 and 1982 , he circumnavigated the world on the Transglobe Expedition , becoming one of the first men ever to reach both the North and South Poles overland . |
| 3 | Ladbrokes spokesman Rob Hartnett said : ‘ It is the widest open Champion Hurdle in living memory , but Granville Again has been a warm order since Scu climbed aboard . ’ |
| 4 | It has been a long time since the women 's game has been so open ; hopefully it will continue . |
| 5 | This is a very beautiful music , serene , noble , discreet , poignant , composed , grief-stricken , understated , sublime — it has been a long time since I discovered anything quite so touching . |
| 6 | ‘ Then you 'll also know that Zimbala has been a one-party state since it was granted independence by the French forty-five years ago . ’ |
| 7 | Oxford City Council has been a high spender since Labour got control . |
| 8 | A blunt southerner by nature , LAURIE MAINS has been a changed man since he was made All Black coach . |
| 9 | It had been a long time since we last saw one of those , so we bought ice cream , sat in the sun and wrote postcards at the Reykjahlid shop . |
| 10 | It had been a long time since he had felt like that . |
| 11 | It was a dream , it had been a long time since Hari had seen her mother smile for the death of her husband had knocked all the spirit out of Win Morgan . |
| 12 | Because of the ancient feud with the Dwarfs , it had been a long time since any High Elf had set foot on the Old World . |
| 13 | It had been a long time since anyone had enjoyed rubbing cream into her back . |
| 14 | She reached for her silk dressing gown and pulled it on ; she felt good , it had been a long time since she had awoken feeling so alive . |
| 15 | It had been a long time since she had had to stop herself simply blowing away an enemy that she found herself unable to either maim or restrain . |
| 16 | It had been a long time since I — ’ He broke off . |
| 17 | It had been a long time since she had felt this way . |
| 18 | It had been a long time since she 'd laughed , joined in a joke , been silly just for the hell of it . |
| 19 | It had been a long time since she 'd met anyone even remotely interesting , and whatever this man was he certainly was n't remote ! |
| 20 | Ahead , on a right-hand bend , was the farm , but it had been a long time since a chicken had shat in that yard . |
| 21 | It had been a long time since the mental barrier between herself and the watching audience had been broken … |
| 22 | Although Fair Isle is officially part of Shetland , and I had been a keen birdwatcher since I was a boy , I had never had the opportunity to visit the island until I had started to work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 23 | IT 'S been a long time since Sister Jacques-Marie took her clothes off for public viewing . |
| 24 | It 's been a long time since a league game was played at Molyneux against Stoke . |
| 25 | But first of all I 'd like to congratulate the officers on the report er I 'm sure that those people who have been reading the reports and officers of the County Council for some years er will have probably er , er it 's been a long time since they 've read one that 's been expressed in such strong terms . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's been a long time since I 've been in the semis of a Grand Slam tournament . ’ |
| 27 | It 's been a long time since you left us , but you 're more than welcome though on your return and do n't be so long before you come again . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's been a new development since I received your telex yesterday . |