Example sentences of "have been [verb] since [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Logging in the region has been halted since 1990 by court actions to protect the habitat of the northern spotted owl , leading to thousands of job losses [ see EDs 70 ; passim ] . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The race mauretanicus , on the other hand , may now be appearing less frequently , and only one has been recorded since 1971 . |
| 4 | The situation has been publicised since last year by the relief agencies and others , but the UN was slow to get involved . |
| 5 | ‘ County Durham 's constabulary has been increased since 1979 and the Home Office is still looking at the possibility of reallocating some of the 1,000 extra posts to the county , ’ he said . |
| 6 | At the heart of System 10 will be a new version of the Sybase SQL Server , the core database server that the company has been shipping since 1987 , which is now out at around some 6,500 sites worldwide . |
| 7 | At the heart of System 10 sits the Sybase SQL Server 10 product , basically the core database server which the company has been shipping since 1987 , and now out at around 5,000 sites worldwide . |
| 8 | At the heart of System 10 will be a new version of the Sybase SQL Server , the core database server which the company has been shipping since 1987 , and now out at around some 6,500 sites worldwide . |
| 9 | My tank has been matured since last December and I have lost a Fireball Angel , a Swallow Tail Angel and a Cream Angel . |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman might like to know that last year saw record levels of exports from this country and that our share of manufactured exports in world trade has been rising since 1984 . |
| 11 | Mr Roland ’ Tiny ’ Rowland , head of Lonrho , has been trying since 1977 to acquire House of Fraser , owner of Harrods in Knightsbridge , London , and of various other department stores throughout the land . |
| 12 | The implementation of Part V of the FSA ( covering Offers of Unlisted Securities ) has been delayed since 1986 and since that time the EC directive on prospectuses has been adopted . |
| 13 | As a way of encouraging them to return , food aid to the refugee camps has been withheld since last summer . |
| 14 | Uncontrolled fusion has been achieved since 1952 with the detonation of thermonuclear weapons . |
| 15 | Most of this is obtained from the lakes of the Lake District ( see page 134 ) but the largest reservoir in Britain , Kielder Water , has been formed since 1980 by flooding low value farmland in the northern Pennines . |
| 16 | A number of major reports were produced in this way ( see Chapter 3 ) , but no CACE has been constituted since 1967 , and later government reports have been issued by committees set up to consider particular issues . |
| 17 | Some 60 per cent of the Lacandona — North America 's largest rainforest — has been destroyed since 1970 , partly due to the previous Mexican policy of populating the Guatemalan border area at a time of tension between the two states . |
| 18 | The problem is also significant in China where there are c. 170 000 km 2 of desertified land , approximately 30 per cent of which has been created since 1920 ( Zhu Zhenda 1982 , quoted in Kebin and Kaiguo 1989 ) . |
| 19 | The C & p approach has been developing since 1988 . |
| 20 | It is hoped to achieve the 15% reduction in staffing by the employment of temporary staff as vacancies occur and this policy has been operating since 1 April 1992 . |
| 21 | The Service has been operating since 1987 , and began distance radio training straight away , followed in 1989 by print journalism . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Funding Silotank has been operating since last year , but was officially opened yesterday at a reception attended by representatives of the organisations which have supplied funding for the venture . |
| 24 | The formula for Chipie — the mane means something akin to ‘ cheeky ’ — has been refined since 1967 , when founder Jean-Michel Signoles began the company in Carcassonne , close to the foot of the Pyrenees , marrying a naive French country feel with the nostalgic influences of American jeanswear . |
| 25 | The Wye Raft Race has been run since 1977 and it raises around £100,000 a year for charity . |
| 26 | No party of more than three Black-necked Grebes has been noted since 1960 , and most reports are now of single birds ; these occur inland about as often as do Slavonian Grebes . |
| 27 | ‘ Stand-to ’ , and a steady drizzle has been falling since 3 a.m . |
| 28 | The scheme has been running since 1986 and won a similar CIMA award in 1988 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The campaign has been running since 1963 and the object has been to encourage private or business premises to install some form of floral display . |