Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] since the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 All this has , of course , been made possible both by technological revolutions in transport and communication and by the lengthy period of free movements of the factors of production over a vast area of the globe which has developed since the second world war .
2 Before I do so I must say something about the way in which the U K economy has developed since the latter half of the nineteenth century .
3 In this respect , at least , little has altered since the nineteenth century .
4 Indeed the amount of oil spilt worldwide has fallen since the 1970s while the volume shipped has grown .
5 Some have argued that the rise of the Happy Days mob shows how far Hollywood has fallen since the Seventies , the era of the Movie Brats .
6 It is one of the world 's fastest-growing industries which has burgeoned since the Second World War , and especially since the 1960s .
7 However , it should also be noted that the interval between marriage and the birth of the first child has lengthened since the early seventies .
8 Trade with the Soviet Union has collapsed since the new year , when hard currency replaced the rouble as the main medium of transaction .
9 Jimmy and Gwenda Cornell 's ARC team has grown since the first event in 1986 .
10 With the spread of home ownership , a process that began in earnest during the inter-war years and has accelerated since the 1960s , the passing on of the family home will become an increasingly important aspect of defining who owns what , and confirming the advantages enjoyed by some groups of the population .
11 The parietal assemblages have the essential characteristics of a message : they respond to the needs and means that man has had since the Upper Palaeolithic to produce oral symbols in a material form by using his hands .
12 The decline has occurred since the 1950s , but little of the mistletoe on sale came from British sources .
13 Some are looking to sell their practices or merge their way out of problems that have been brought on by the severest recession the UK has experienced since the 1930s .
14 In a long briefing on the country 's military situation , General Ulomi said the Afghan army has proved since the Soviet withdrawal it is too powerful to be defeated and that the military option pursued by Pakistan and the US will fail .
15 The PLCND group has campaigned since the early 1980s for the unconditional removal of all British and American nuclear weapons from UK territory .
16 The restoration of the warehouse and the adjoining 457m ( 500yd ) length of canal is viewed with enthusiasm by the Wey and Arun Canal Trust , a society which has worked since the early 1970s for the complete restoration of the Arun Navigation and the Wey and Arun Junction Canal between Pallingham and the River Wey , and which has restored the opportunity for navigation to several stretches of these waterways .
17 Nevertheless , within the variations and local conditions , if we are thinking in terms of a specifically televisual addition to the forms which the novelistic has taken since the Greek romance , the organization of narrative around the expectation of interruption seems to me to be central .
18 I mean , two of them seem as if they are referring back to something which has happened since the first two . ’
19 Correspondingly , if , as is t e case , we know only what has happened since the big bang , we could not determine what happened beforehand .
20 A DECADE has passed since the first report of a second messenger function for inositol(1,4,5)-trisphosphate ( InsP 3 ) .
21 If the files are on computer then the printout should indicate the time that has elapsed since the last time entry on the file .
22 There is general , though not unanimous , agreement that profitability in British industry has declined since the early 1950s .
23 There are no plans to end the maximum part-time option , which has existed since the early days of the NHS .
24 The stockpile of raw and processed food , and emergency field cooking equipment has existed since the Second World War .
25 This arrangement has existed since the mid 1970s .
26 Even while the various rugby groups in South Africa are heading for unification , the New Zealand Rugby Football Union still can not quite make up its mind how quickly it should bridge the gap which has existed since the tumultuous Springbok tour of New Zealand in 1981 .
27 Hermitage has existed since the thirteenth century , standing within older earthworks .
28 The Scottish arrangements were well established by the end of the nineteenth century ; in Wales the pattern has evolved since the 1950s .
29 This may reflect the fact that society has changed since the early days of sociology , and religion and its associated values , emotions and beliefs is no longer as important as it used to be .
30 The second point I want to make is in relation to something that has changed since the approved strategy and that is the inter-relationship between North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire .
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