Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [adj] [noun] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , British Telecom 's service has received heavy criticism since privatisation ; but how much of this failure to provide an ‘ adequate , service is due to post-privatisation behaviour as opposed to decisions ( perhaps inadequate investment ) made beforehand ? |
| 2 | A further potential thinning mechanism which has received considerable support since the late 1970s is the stretching of the lithosphere as a result of sustained tensional stress ( Fig. 4.12 ) . |
| 3 | It is the highly publicised rise in crime , and the Government 's exploitation of the fear that it produces , which has justified increased expenditure since 1979 on the police , at a time of cutbacks on other sections of the public sector , such as health , income maintenance schemes , education and housing . |
| 4 | President : Saddam Hussein has dominated Iraqi politics since the late 1970s with a small clique of relatives and supporters from his home town of Takrit in northern Iraq . |
| 5 | A United Kingdom colony , Bermuda , settled by the British since 1609 , has enjoyed internal self-government since 1968 . |
| 6 | The ‘ Antwerp Six ’ , a group of fashion designers who graduated from Antwerp 's Royal Academy of Fine Arts , has won international acclaim since the mid-1980s . |
| 7 | The 62-year-old actress , who plays Ivy Brennan in the top-rated Granada TV series , has undergone exhaustive tests since becoming ill . |
| 8 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 9 | A few days ago , we saw the appalling spectacle on television of Vietnamese asylum seekers being dragged forcibly on to a plane to be sent back to Vietnam , a very poor country that has suffered economic embargos since 1976 , which have caused great poverty there . |
| 10 | The Soviet Union has made great strides since the advent of socialism in 1917 and China has achieved a remarkable increase in prosperity in the years since the communists took over . |
| 11 | Lazaroni 's opposite number , Azeglio Vicini , can call on an almost full-strength squad for a game in which he hopes Italy will prove his assertion that the side has made significant progress since being defeated by the Soviet Union in last summer 's European Championship semi-final . |
| 12 | This type of simplistic explanation of primitive societies has dogged Marxist anthropology since Engels 's time . |
| 13 | Following his appointment to the voluntary post on February 1st , Mr. Brown , who has had rheumatoid arthritis since 1984 , already visits four people regularly . |
| 14 | Sports Photographer Tim Clayton has reached new heights since living in Australia . |
| 15 | The last in a distinguished line of top class British sports photographers , Tim Clayton has reached new heights since living in Australia , gaining international recognition by winning the portfolio section of the International Olympic Committee 's Best of Sport Photographic Contest , open to professional sports photographers world-wide . |
| 16 | This has always been a feature of political life , but has assumed new prominence since 1979 . |
| 17 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 18 | He has studied military uniform since 1926 , being a pupil of Pierre Benigni , and the collaborator with Cdt . |
| 19 | In 1984 Young married Lilian Lawson , another prelingually deaf person of Scottish birth , who has held administrative posts since 1981 and has been Head of Administration since 1988 . |