Example sentences of "be [adj] since [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PC John Burden , coroner 's officer for Canterbury , Kent , said : ‘ He had a history of depression dating back to the early 1970s and he had been depressed since September this year . ’ |
| 2 | This week 's conference had been superfluous since Sunday 's vote to prevent amendments to the policy review documents , he said . |
| 3 | NATALIE HUNTER , 27 , has been unemployed since December after working as a graphic designer for four years . |
| 4 | Greenland has been autonomous since May 1 , 1979 , and has a parliament ( Landsting ) and government ( Landsstyre ) with full executive authority , but it remains an integral part of the Kingdom of Denmark . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've only been ill since Saturday evening and of course yesterday was Sunday and most people stay in bed anyway then . ’ |
| 6 | Gloucester was ideally placed to satisfy this need — something which has been underemphasized since Kendall 's romantic portrait of him as an isolated northern figure . |
| 7 | Gloucester was ideally placed to satisfy this need — something which has been underemphasized since Kendall 's romantic portrait of him as an isolated northern figure . |
| 8 | Meanwhile member countries sought to agree on measures to introduce a single internal market within the EC by Jan. 1 , 1993 , as agreed under the Single European Act which had been effective since July 1987 [ see pp. 35534 ; 34107-08 for terms ] . |
| 9 | McKimmie , who required surgery , could be necessary since Paul Mason , Lee Richardson and Gary Smith are all victims of flu . |
| 10 | And there are already a wide range of applications under way in the US where the system been available since October . |
| 11 | It has been available since September 1987 , with the first examinations in summer 1989 . |
| 12 | In their opinion the working of the " special relationship " had been faulty since Bevin 's illness and retirement early in 1951 . |
| 13 | ‘ But generally speaking , it has been difficult since September 1988 . |
| 14 | ‘ But generally speaking , it has been difficult since September 1988 . |
| 15 | Indica had been open since February , and that month , too , the Marquee in Wardour Street had featured the ‘ Spontaneous Underground ’ . |
| 16 | Bacon 's college which cost around a quarter , around eighteen million to build , has now been open , has only been open since September 1991 , and they 're just more details which I 've got ta add while I 'm writing it , that 's just the beginning write on the front page |
| 17 | On the morning after his return to Jesus College , Coleridge paused to look about the room from which he had been absent since June , and to record his state of mind in a letter to Southey : |
| 18 | The post had been vacant since February [ see p. 38777 ] . |
| 19 | ‘ Secondly , the post of organiser at the Whyte House , is ACE-funded and has been vacant since December 1992 and all attempts to fill it have proved unsuccessful . |
| 20 | The office had been vacant since December when Bush had appointed the incumbent Transportation Secretary , Samuel Skinner , as his Chief of Staff [ see p. 38667 ] . |
| 21 | The post had been vacant since August 1991 [ see pp. 38449 ; 38399 ] and Gronkiewicz-Waltz , who had been proposed by President Lech Walesa , had been rejected in an earlier vote in December . |
| 22 | The ash is a classic example of a tree which holds on to its fruits well into the next season even though they may have been ripe since October . |