Example sentences of "had been [adv] [verb] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also admitted that the city of Basra had been heavily bombed since the beginning of the war . |
| 2 | It is usually considered , though , that Ptolemy made a mistake with his co-ordinates , since the distance from London to his second Salinae also coincides conveniently with the distance to Droitwich , where inland salt production had been well established since prehistoric times . |
| 3 | He imagined bone-wrenching exercises and an accelerated real-food diet , such as had been distinctly lacking since his father 's shaming . |
| 4 | The mayorazgos had been bitterly criticized since the sixteenth century for encouraging laziness as well as being an injustice to younger children . |
| 5 | That domination brought a unity to the north which had been notably lacking since the end of the previous century . |
| 6 | That domination brought a unity to the north which had been notably lacking since the end of the previous century . |
| 7 | Supplies of crude oil from Russia had been sharply reduced since Aug. 30 , so that reliance on the Ignalia nuclear power station near Vilnius ( whose reactor design was similar to that at Chernobyl ) increased , despite safety fears . |
| 8 | Deng Xiaoping , China 's " elder statesman " leader , had considerable success during March in his effort to reinforce the reformist line which he had been actively promoting since early January . |
| 9 | This had been substantially rewritten since publication of the first draft in February [ see pp. 37234-35 ] , some of the revisions reflecting conservative criticism of the party leadership , but as delivered by Gorbachev it still came across as a spirited defence of his perestroika reform policies . |
| 10 | Most had been forced to sell their private woodlands , which had been reverently preserved since the eighteenth century . |