Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [adv] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authorities in Bosnia-Hercegovina ( whose independence , proclaimed in March — see p. 38832 — had been recognized widely since early April — -see pp. 38848-49 ) repeatedly requested foreign military aid and there were warnings that a flood of refugees , both Moslems and ethnic Croats , could pose a serious problem for neighbouring countries . |
| 2 | Modern publications were consulted by readers much more frequently than older material : 85% of all issues were twentieth-century publications , and 42% had been published only since 1970 . |
| 3 | At his trial the magistrates urged that the Book of Common Prayer had been used ever since the time of the Apostles . |
| 4 | There were two projects on his mind : one was the little prose book which had been " clogging his system " , to employ another of his own phrases , since the mid-Forties , and the other was the new play which had been postponed effectively since 1939 . |
| 5 | Rallies had been held repeatedly since March 26 in Dushanbe , the capital , organized by the opposition parties calling for the resignation of the Supreme Soviet Chair , Sarafali Kenjayev . |
| 6 | The territory belonged to the King of Holland who was quite willing to part with it , and although the transfer would have meant the removal of a Prussian garrison which had been installed there since 1815 , Bismarck at first seemed indifferent to the transaction . |
| 7 | Others have vanished , like the rich abbey of St Jean d'Angely where the head of St John the Baptist had been venerated ever since its miraculous discovery in the mid-eleventh century . |