Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] since [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the problem of radiation embrittlement has been recognised since the outset of the civil Magnox programme in the early 1960s , the inspectorate called for more evidence of the safety of Magnox plants in 1990 after it found the rate of embrittlement may have been faster than predicted . |
| 2 | In Madeira the plantain ( Musa paradisiaca ) which is very good in cooking has been grown since the island was first settled . |
| 3 | Gough has been slow to respond to a groin injury which has plagued him since September and has been sidelined since the win over Celtic on November 7 . |
| 4 | In response to your application you 'll receive , on the back of the form you " ve sent to the Registry , an official certificate of search that will reveal whether any entry or pending entry has been made since the date from which you searched . |
| 5 | This official search serves two vital purposes for a buyer : ( a ) it gives an assurance that no adverse entry has been made since the date searched from ; and ( b ) it gives the buyer priority for the registration of transfer ( or mortgage , when a prospective mortgagee is searching ) provided the buyer 's own transfer or mortgage is lodged in the Registry before 11 am on the thirtieth working day from the date of the certificate . |
| 6 | This has been achieved since the collaboration originally initiated and sustained by means of this series of ESRC/CNRS grants is still continuing.S . |
| 7 | Examines what has been achieved since the start of the movement 100 years ago . |
| 8 | The Trustees can take justifiable pride in what has been achieved since the Library 's foundation and particularly in the dramatic expansion of its services in the last few years . |
| 9 | Captain Jonathan Shelborne has been grounded since the tragedy on March 14 in which ten oil workers , including Andrew Smailes , 31 , from Middlesbrough , and his co-pilot died . |
| 10 | The ferry service has been discontinued since the construction of a temporary military bridge connecting Halling and Wouldham which is used in preference to the ferry to such an extent that the ferry service was discontinued by the proprietors . |
| 11 | If you take all of the money that has been spent since the policy was established in nineteen eighty eight , it still does not amount to twenty pence per child which as I said in a previous erm question , answer to a previous question , is bare would barely buy a pencil for each child . |
| 12 | " Not one of them has been stolen since the seed was sown . |
| 13 | It has been known since the turn of the century that the primary visual cortex must be retinotopically mapped . |
| 14 | In short , although the ‘ standard working week ’ has been reduced since the war , in reality the working week for the manual worker is much the same . |
| 15 | Having been overshadowed since the war by Sartrean Marxism , in the crises of the 1960s it emerged as the more influential of the two . |
| 16 | Richard Crossman , for one , in 1965 lamented , ‘ How much more humane and imaginative our post-war reconstruction would have proved if government departments had been invigorated by an influx of experts with special knowledge , new ideas and a sympathy for the Government 's domestic and foreign policies ’ .3– George Brown 's National Plan of 1965 represented a belated attempt to recapture the ground perceived to have been lost since the war ended . |
| 17 | The court was then given the results of research that had been conducted since the suit was filed in 1987 . |
| 18 | The notes of guidance accompanying the Secretary of State 's announcement on the polytechnics in 1967 were considered by the Council to be ‘ considerably more liberal than the original draft which had been amended since the Chairman of the Council had made representations about the matter to the Secretary of State ’ . |
| 19 | The election of a mayor had been delayed since the resignation of a candidate originally elected on Feb. 9 ( an independent supported by the HDUR ) . |
| 20 | It had been repainted since the war , but , as far as she knew , it had never given forth music . |
| 21 | The two weeks of training on the Soltau-Luneberg Training Area had given the Royal Scots the opportunity to test to the full those operating procedures and ideas that had been developed since the conversion to Warrior had started in the new year . |
| 22 | By July 18th 1807 , 515 in-patients and 189 out-patients had been treated since the infirmary had been opened . |
| 23 | The farm at Hackballs Cross had been neglected since the sun came out . |
| 24 | On June 20 , the Bosnian Presidency [ for membership see below ] declared a state of war , and a general mobilization in Bosnia-Hercegovina , where , it said , 7,200 people had been killed since the start of fighting , more than 30,000 were missing presumed dead , and there were 1,303,469 refugees . |
| 25 | In Surrey , Staffordshire , Sussex , Leicestershire , Rutland , Nottinghamshire , Lancashire and Dorset the jurors declared that all the forests there had been established since the accession of Henry II , and that only those lands and woods held by him in demesne — the ‘ ancient demesnes of the Crown , — could , according to the Charter of the Forest , remain in the Forest . |
| 26 | According to Vietnamese officials , 217 foreign investment projects worth a total of US$1,400 million had been approved since the passage in late 1987 of liberal foreign investment legislation [ see pp. 35900-01 ] . |
| 27 | The " Pass " had been closed since the deterioration in Sino-Vietnamese relations in the late 1970s , except for the infrequent exchange of prisoners of war . |
| 28 | The name change , which will officially happen in January 1992 , had been expected since the association took delivery of a weighty industry assessment from Saatchi & Saatchi last summer . |
| 29 | On Aug. 10 it was reported that over 47,000 commercial licences had been issued since the relegalization of small-scale private enterprise in February [ see p. 37252 ] . |
| 30 | The returns from 55 courses have been used in analysis , but more have been received since the survey was temporarily closed to allow for the preparation of this report for the Science and Engineering Research Council . |