Example sentences of "which have be [verb] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This statement defined the procedure which has been followed since October 1987 , and which has been applied in the case of all four appellants . |
| 4 | We do not accept that the provisions in Schedule 5 will operate harshly or unfairly on property held on discretionary trust which has been settled since 26th March 1974 . |
| 5 | It culminated in the sabbatarian excesses of English and Scottish Puritanism and the Sunday legislation , much of which has been relaxed since the First World War . |
| 6 | Whalers face the threat of government reprisals should they start a commercial hunt which has been banned since 1985 . |
| 7 | THE Belfast-based Sunday News , which has been published since 1965 , is to close . |
| 8 | CEPALC is a non-profit-making organisation which has been working since 1978 to serve the communication needs of grassroots groups in the towns and rural areas of Colombia . |
| 9 | One of his earliest discoveries in this field was how to make Tyrian purple — an indigo derivative — from certain shellfish , a secret which had been lost since Roman times . |
| 10 | There were widely held concerns over the funding of the mission , the dispatch of which had been delayed since November 1991 when the leaders of three of the four factions returned to Phnom Penh , the capital . |
| 11 | An ECU 500 million ( about US$625 million line of credit for food and agricultural products guaranteed by the European Communities ( EC ) to the former Soviet Union , which had been delayed since November , was finally granted to Russia alone , it was announced on March 4 by Deutsche Bank , whose Luxembourg subsidiary was the lead bank of the consortium providing the credit . |
| 12 | Her visit , which had been repeated since 1935 , was , I learnt later , not an unmixed pleasure for him . |
| 13 | An agricultural relief committee was established in 1983 by a handful of young agricultural engineers , some of whom had already been working with ‘ the voluntary work committees ’ , a network of skilled and unskilled workers which had been operating since the mid-1970s . |
| 14 | This was a major departure for NATO , which had been based since its foundation in 1949 on the principles of taking joint action in defence of member states only and of restricting operations to a clearly designated area covering the member states ' territories . |
| 15 | Mr Holland was due to meet AMP 's chairman , David Anderson , today in a meeting which had been planned since June . |
| 16 | The influence of the cinema on children and young people provided a sharp focus for these anxieties , which had been aired since the arrival of the first silent movies . |
| 17 | Particularly divisive at a parochial level was the stress placed by the bishops on the need for a greater reverence in the communion rite , and their determination that the portable communion tables , which had been used since Elizabethan times , should be replaced by altars permanently positioned at the east end of the chancel and separated from the body of the church by altar rails . |
| 18 | The space available to Central Office was increased by the acquisition of St Stephen 's House as well as St Stephen 's Chambers , which had been occupied since 1874 ; the new office cost $3,000 a year in rent alone . |
| 19 | Such a strategy underpinned the demonstration project which had been running since 1977 in Eindhoven and Rijswijk . |
| 20 | EC Education Ministers agreed on Dec. 14 , 1989 , at a meeting in Brussels to extend the Erasmus programme of inter-university exchanges , which had been running since 1988 , for a further five years from 1990 to 1994 . |
| 21 | He pursued the antimicrobial properties of soil organisms , particularly actinomycetes , which had been known since the 1920s to produce inhibitory substances . |
| 22 | A close alignment with Egypt was established , confirming a relationship which had been improving since 1989 . |
| 23 | Several senior government appointees were retired from the armed forces on Sept. 5 , in the context of a major restructuring of the military which had been anticipated since the April coup attempt , and in line with the policy of transition from military to civilian rule . |
| 24 | It was anticipated , therefore , that the Premiers ' talks — three sessions of which had been held since September 1990 — would be resumed in April or May . |
| 25 | Jagmohan , the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir , on Feb. 19 dissolved the State Assembly , which had been suspended since Jan. 19 when the state was placed under Governor 's rule [ see pp. 37183-84 ] . |
| 26 | The council of the 41-member International Cocoa Organization ( ICCO ) on March 30 voted almost unanimously to extend the 1986 International Cocoa Agreement between producers and consumers [ see p. 35294 ] for a two-year period from Oct. 1 , but without its provisions to regulate world supplies and prices , which had been suspended since 1988 . |
| 27 | On Oct. 17 sources in Saudi Arabia said that it had been decided to renew economic relations with Jordan which had been suspended since the Gulf War . |
| 28 | Once finalized , the new accord was expected to open the way to resumption of debt reduction talks with Western commercial banks which had been suspended since June 1991 . |
| 29 | They thus salvaged the process of European integration which had been stalled since the Danish " no " vote in a referendum in June 1992 on ratification of the Maastricht Treaty on European Union [ see pp. 38942-43 ] . |
| 30 | It was decided in 1985 that the maypole , which had been standing since 1953 , was no longer safe and should be replaced . |