Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] be [verb] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marjorie Thomas , 35 , who has been waiting since August 1989 for surgery on an eye condition , said the claims are no consolation . |
| 2 | This refreshing wine is made by Piat Père et Fils who has been established since 1849 and also produces outstanding Beaujolais and Burgundy wines . |
| 3 | The bodies have not yet been identified , but it 's thought they 're Linda Bohlen and Stefan Mohr who 've been missing since the end of September . |
| 4 | Lord Taylor said the Court of Appeal had heard evidence from two new witnesses , Samantha Wilson and Sara Dennis , who had been traced since the trial . |
| 5 | Fouts then began work with Lucy , at that time 5 years old , who had been raised since birth as one of the family of a psychotherapist , Maury Temerlin , and his wife . |
| 6 | Kuwait also protested about Iraq 's failure to release Kuwaitis and members of other nationalities who had been imprisoned since the Gulf crisis , or to allow Red Cross representatives to visit prisoners . |
| 7 | On coming to power in Tbilisi , the new military council expressed its readiness to search for a negotiated solution to the problems in South Ossetia and , as a gesture of goodwill , on Jan. 7 released the Ossetian leader Torez Kolumbegov who had been held since January 1991 [ see pp. 37971 ; 38014 ] . |
| 8 | In his autobiography , he tries to see how this happened to ‘ the whole man ’ — to the man who had been haunted since youth by a sense of joy ’ , to the man whose love of Autumn , of Northernness , even of his own mother , was always , as he came to feel , a longing for one without whom our hearts will find no rest . |
| 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 | A 69-YEAR-OLD patient at Belfast 's Musgrave Park Hospital , who had been missing since Sunday , was found safe and well today in nearby woodlands . |
| 11 | At the instance of the King , Parliament passed an Act decreeing that all ministers in Scotland who had been ordained since 1649 must have their appointments confirmed by the bishop of their diocese . |
| 12 | On the day on which the Secretary of State gave a pledge to his party conference that everyone would have equal access to free health care , I was contacted by a constituent , Mr. Ronnie Watson , who had been waiting since September 1990 for an appointment with a consultant to discuss a possible hip operation and had just been told that he would have to wait until some unspecified date in 1992 . |
| 13 | In December a number of PFLP detainees were released [ see p. 37136 ] , and on Jan. 20 , 1990 , Badran issued a circular to all government departments allowing for the re-employment of any civil servant who had been discharged since the April 1989 riots on the strength of the country 's martial law regulations . |