Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] since the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basic logic of her programme since 1979 had been to reverse the main lines of her country 's history as it had developed since the Second World War . |
| 2 | His solution to the problem of scholarship is to call for a closer alliance between literary criticism and the historical study of language , to be achieved through the kind of emphasis on literary language which he himself had favoured since the 1930s . |
| 3 | Parliament on March 20 passed legislation allowing the establishment of independent radio and television stations and news agencies , thus ending the state broadcasting monopoly which had applied since the early 1950s . |
| 4 | Further shocks were to come : the reason behind Diana 's sometimes gaunt appearance was her battle with the binge-and-vomit eating disorder bulimia , from which she had suffered since the first year of her marriage . |
| 5 | It brought the worst economic turmoil that this country had seen since the industrial revolution . |
| 6 | It was the worst violence Moscow had seen since the failed coup of August 1991 . |
| 7 | The air and water temperature had risen since the early morning frost ; the water level and colour remained the same . |
| 8 | No aggression had occurred since the previous session a week earlier . |
| 9 | Technology had advanced since the appalling slaughter of the Great War . |
| 10 | Policy was conducted with ‘ a light touch ’ : save for the period of the Great War , when censorship and other controls operated , the Third Republic ( 1870–1940 ) was the most liberal regime France had experienced since the early phase ( 1789–92 ) of the Great Revolution . |
| 11 | Barcelona became once more a great Mediterranean port — its trade , which had been the pride of medieval Catalonia , had quintupled since the early years of the century — and it now started its career as an industrial city . |
| 12 | The owner wished to reconstruct the wharf structure which had disappeared since the active days of the waterway , but no drawings or photographs of this feature could be found . |
| 13 | Above all , he established a rapport between himself and the leading noblemen , his companions in arms , which formed the basis of the longest period of political stability the country had known since the early years of Edward I. These achievements , however , had their price . |
| 14 | By 1970 , with the passing of the old empire , these were all over , and only the totally unexpected war with Argentina over the Falklands in 1982 interrupted what was one of the longest periods of unbroken peace that Britain had known since the later middle ages . |
| 15 | As a military exercise , however , many gaps in British naval and air provision had been shown up ; but it was a spectacular triumph , the first that Britain had known since the 1950s . |
| 16 | His mother Eleanor was , in her own right , Duchess of Aquitaine , the duchy which her forefathers had ruled since the tenth century . |
| 17 | I had to stand on tiptoe to reach the brass knocker , which had appeared since the previous day . |
| 18 | I mean , neither of us had eaten since the early hours , and drinking on an empty stomach is dodgy . |
| 19 | What was worse , wearing it had obliged him to fasten the top button of his shirt , an exercise which had drawn his attention to an extra half inch of fat his neck had gained since the last such occasion . |
| 20 | In 1969 NATO had agreed that progress in Germany should lead to a conference on European security which Moscow had wanted since the 1950s . |
| 21 | And this , in spite of some effort on my part to prevent it , led to the subject of science fiction , and where it had gone since the original efforts of Swift and Verne and H. G. Wells . |
| 22 | The French crown , it is rightly argued , had a definite policy with relation to the sea which it had followed since the early thirteenth century . |
| 23 | At the same time , however strong the desire to cut defence costs and to give priority to home affairs , too much had happened since the mid-1930s for the United States to return to its prewar foreign and defence policies . |
| 24 | The following spring the same duo , neither of whom had climbed since the previous autumn , was optimistically toying with the idea of opening the season with Dream of White Horses on Gogarth . |
| 25 | Yet a consciousness of Anglo-French differences was already apparent — it was based upon irrational prejudices and linguistic dissimilarities , and had existed since the mid to late twelfth century . |
| 26 | Patients could be retreated if more than 4 weeks had elapsed since the initial treatment . |
| 27 | The forced retreat of Selim III indicated the extent to which the authority of the Sublime Porte had declined since the glorious days of Suleiman in the sixteenth century . |
| 28 | That Navarro Rubio should stand up to Franco in this way was indicative of how power relations within the regime had changed since the Civil War . |
| 29 | Things had changed since the 1920s when Lionel Hedges , a Tonbridge and Kent cricketer and Oxford blue , had dismissed ‘ a seedy looking middle-aged gentleman [ who ] called on him on the morning of a match . |
| 30 | In fact we were , rather condescendingly , informed that teaching methods had changed since the 1960s and we could not expect our child to be educated in the same manner as we ourselves had been . |