Example sentences of "have [adv] since been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The palm court , both vegetation and orchestra , has long since been repossessed . |
| 2 | It has long since been turned into a pond and moat . |
| 3 | The manor has long since been broken up and sold off and Andrew now only holds small pieces of land , though these include some of the grass and trees where the proclamation is made . |
| 4 | He arrived in the West Country after a long train journey from his Cleveland home to admit that the Fedora , ever-present symbol of Crystal Palace 's 1976 FA Cup run , has long since been auctioned off for £1,500 to charity . |
| 5 | The village of Claythorpe , once quite large and with a railway passing through , has disappeared from the face of some modern-day maps and the railway has long since been dismantled . |
| 6 | The airborne branch has long since been covered in its own thorough MAA 139 , so it is welcome to see this new and interesting study of the LFDs — in much greater and more specific depth , and well illustrated . |
| 7 | ( The old argument , fashionable in the 1960s , whether molecular biology is a separate discipline ir , instead , an ingredient of every other has long since been settled in favour of pervasiveness . ) |
| 8 | This model has long since been embellished , however , by the Anglo-American followers of I. A. Richards . |
| 9 | The myth that community care is cheaper than institutional care has long since been dispensed with , but this may not necessarily deter the government from seeing the impending changes as an opportunity to cut costs . |
| 10 | But this idea has long since been rejected . |
| 11 | Today the garden is still there , although it has long since been absorbed into the sprawling outskirts of the town . |
| 12 | The old chestnut of rating a disk drive by its Data Access Time , or Average Seek Time has long since been overtaken by modern drive technology . |
| 13 | ‘ As a trade issue , the beef ban has long since been wiped out , ’ The Scotsman was told . |
| 14 | At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed for seven years to John Braithwaite [ q.v. ] , an eminent locomotive and railway engineer , and while in his service he invented in 1837 the detonating railway fog-signal which was first tried on the Croydon line and has ever since been in universal use as a very valuable safety measure . |
| 15 | But it has never since been debated as solemnly , as urgently or as hysterically as it was in the 1950s . |
| 16 | It was partly the proximity to the fens , for though they 'd long since been drained and farmed , all the fields were bound by ditches and dykes and he felt as if the land was oozing bog water , or sinking imperceptibly into some primeval slime . |
| 17 | The crucial moment when children realise that their parents are younger than they are had long since been passed by Martha . |
| 18 | Six months later , Delaney had lit tie doubt that the tragic explosion of an oil tanker in mid ocean would have long since been forgotten , and Connors , or whoever , would be in the New Year 's Honours List . |
| 19 | If Robson Rhodes had not decided to make fundamental changes in its operating style five years ago , the chances are that it would have long since been swallowed up by one of its rivals . |
| 20 | That the classical wooden-bodied Pullman cars of earlier days had long since been split up and sold or scrapped was no deterrent . |
| 21 | Her red hair was a beacon in the night — a flame in which he had long since been charred . |
| 22 | The more fertile areas of farmland along the coast had long since been taken over by German farmers . |
| 23 | There the Kaszubians occupied smallholdings ; all the better farmland towards the coast had long since been taken over by the Germans . |
| 24 | The special edition of the journal had long since been published by the time I got the material out of Iraq . ) |
| 25 | If hunting had once been in the red bitch 's blood it had long since been bred out and forgotten . |
| 26 | They had turned her pillow so that it was fresh , and the tawdry finery had long since been replaced by a smooth , pale quilt that reached to her breast . |
| 27 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 28 | It was a painful sacrifice for the Harvey Lane Church to relinquish their beloved pastor but they recognised that ‘ his heart had long since been set ’ upon work overseas . |
| 29 | He reached up to his skull as if to seize the beads which had once adorned his scalp , though those had long since been shorn off along with his excess of black greasy hair ; as if to tug those and release an inner pressure . |
| 30 | It served , however only to churn up the sodden land , whose drainage system had long since been destroyed by years of artillery fire , into a vast morass of craters filled with water , through which the British were expected to advance . |