Example sentences of "as it have [be] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unionists of the time would scarcely have recognized the terms of the debate , for in 1922 the party was still embroiled with Ireland and the House of Lords , held a smaller share of the popular vote than ever before , and was still split as it had been since 1902 ; few Unionists would have seen the war as a turning-point for the better in the party fortunes . |
| 2 | The VP , however , remained the dominant force in Vanuatu politics as it had been since independence , and won all five by-elections in December 1989 caused by the resignations of the Sope faction after the leadership struggle . |
| 3 | In Ivory Coast the transfer of ownership has been essentially from the foreign private investor to the local private investor : government remains the owner of 50 per cent of corporate capital ( as it has been since the 1960s ) and the foreign investors ' share has been reduced to 30 per cent , with the local private sector taking the remainder . |
| 4 | A pink winter cherry Prunus subhirtella autumnalis rosea , which was a birthday present years ago , is still flowering , as it has been since November . |
| 5 | And a lot of psychological research is devoted , as it has been since the 1950s , to disproving unfounded suppositions of black subjects ' inferiority in these areas . |
| 6 | However , with all these reservations and qualifications noted there is a city called Tyneside and in 1989 North Shields is part of it as it always has been and Cramlington is as it has been since the early 1970s . |