Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] [v-ing] since [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been falling since nineteen |
| 2 | The CIA 's code of conduct , which has been operating since last April , is now an integral part of the association 's Responsible Care programme , to which all CIA member companies have now signed up . |
| 3 | CEPALC is a non-profit-making organisation which has been working since 1978 to serve the communication needs of grassroots groups in the towns and rural areas of Colombia . |
| 4 | Such a strategy underpinned the demonstration project which had been running since 1977 in Eindhoven and Rijswijk . |
| 5 | EC Education Ministers agreed on Dec. 14 , 1989 , at a meeting in Brussels to extend the Erasmus programme of inter-university exchanges , which had been running since 1988 , for a further five years from 1990 to 1994 . |
| 6 | A close alignment with Egypt was established , confirming a relationship which had been improving since 1989 . |
| 7 | It was decided in 1985 that the maypole , which had been standing since 1953 , was no longer safe and should be replaced . |
| 8 | She had been working since seven in the morning . |
| 9 | They were identified as those of Ruth Fuerst , an Austrian nurse , who had been missing since 1943 ; Muriel Eady , who had been one of Christie 's colleagues at work in 1944 ; Christie 's wife ; and three prostitutes . |
| 10 | We 'd been bickering since New Year and she 'd flounced out of my city flat in early May , darkly muttering , Nevermore ! |
| 11 | If I can clarify that , our policies we 've been going since nineteen eighty three , and all our policies are in full print , which are readable . |
| 12 | Margot Farnham : I 'm involved in the Trouble and Strife collective which is a radical feminist British journal , it 's our fifth birthday issue , we 've been going since 1983 and I 've been on the collective for two years . |
| 13 | It really is er a new model Secretary of State although the fact of the matter is Mr Deputy Speaker , that er his reality of course is quite different from his and the reality is that this is a poor settlement for local government in Wales and it 's been roundly condemned , not least by the county councils , who is the largest employers in Wales will have to face the considerable burden imposed on them by the government 's acceptance of the public sector er review body recommendations but without the additional cash to meet those awards and what this settlement er does represent Mr Deputy Speaker is a further step along the road that we 've been travelling since nineteen seventy nine . |
| 14 | They 'd been queuing since 5 a.m. in the morning and as the wait continued , so did the length of the queue . |
| 15 | ‘ Not on a degree course but at the Cultural Centre for Foreigners where they 've been going since last September . ’ |
| 16 | Is actually to terrify the p poor and to drive them in into a s an under and this is part of their philosophy that they 've been following since nineteen seventy nine under Mrs Thatcher . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-Patiño should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 . |
| 19 | There has also been criticism of the Government 's shifting from a pilot scheme it has been running since 1989 , in which secondary teachers have been linking with primary staff in 76 schools to provide their specialist input . |
| 20 | Resolutions 242 and 338 are the agreed basis for peace talks and speak of Israel giving up territory it has been occupying since 1967 in return for peace . |
| 21 | In the second half of 1966 and throughout 1967 , rhetorical attacks on American policy in Vietnam , which he had been making since 1963 , intensified . |
| 22 | De Gaulle recognized that the crisis that he had been anticipating since 1946 had finally arrived . |
| 23 | It 's a long time it 's been going since that sort of thing . |