Example sentences of "[vb pp] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December a number of PFLP detainees were released [ see p. 37136 ] , and on Jan. 20 , 1990 , Badran issued a circular to all government departments allowing for the re-employment of any civil servant who had been discharged since the April 1989 riots on the strength of the country 's martial law regulations . |
| 2 | Local Education Authorities were jealous of the autonomy that they had enjoyed since 1902 , and which had been consolidated in 1944 : they would not take kindly to being told precisely what to do , and even a persuasive circular about the organization of secondary education was too much for some of them . |
| 3 | Mr Wright has been responsibly critical , having served his apprenticeship under John Woodcock , his predecessor , who in his six years ( 1980–86 ) brought to the editorship an authority it had not enjoyed since the great Sidney Pardon . |
| 4 | The international pre-eminence the country had enjoyed since defeating Napoleon in 1812 was brought to an abrupt end by the Crimean War ( 1853–56 ) . |
| 5 | The Elector of Hanover was known to hold little sympathy for the Tories , whom he felt had betrayed the Allies at the Peace of Utrecht , and few doubted that when George I became King the Tories would lose the political ascendancy they had enjoyed since 1710 . |
| 6 | This will more than insure that she can continue to live in the style she 's enjoyed since her marriage . |
| 7 | During those talks , Mr Shevardnadze said all military aid to Nicaragua has been frozen since the beginning of the year , but that weapons may still be reaching Nicaragua from Cuba . |
| 8 | It is believed that the National Gallery has committed its entire purchase grant for the next three years towards the cost of the Holbein and , given the fact that purchase grants for national museums have been frozen since 1985 , other museums are similarly powerless both to acquire when the works come onto the market , and to match their export price when their licences are suspended . |
| 9 | Continuing anti-US feeling in Iran and the associated strength of the radical Islamic political forces resulted from the US refusal to make a more comprehensive effort to compensate Iran for the shooting down of an Iranian airbus in the Gulf by the USS Vincennes warship in July 1988 [ see pp. 36169-70 ] , and from the fact that it continued to hold , according to official Iranian estimates , some $12,000 million in assets frozen since the 1979 Iranian revolution [ for agreement in November 1989 to release assets see p. 37053 ] . |
| 10 | The government had announced earlier in the month that it would resume repayments on its external debts to multilateral institutions ( frozen since 1986 ) from Oct. 15 . |
| 11 | The failure of the 41-nation International Cocoa Organization ( ICCO ) to revive the international cocoa agreement , ( frozen since February 1989 ) , in September caused the average daily price to fall to 51.75 cents , some 60 per cent in real terms below 1975-76 . |
| 12 | Although he was alleged to have made huge profits from drug trafficking , Noriega 's bank accounts had been frozen since the time of his arrest . |
| 13 | The UN Security Council on Oct. 2 voted by 14 votes to nil with one abstention ( China ) to adopt Resolution 778 impounding oil-related Iraqi assets worth an estimated US$500-800,000,000 , frozen since August 1990 [ see p. 37639 ] , to pay for humanitarian relief , compensate victims of the Gulf war and finance the destruction of Iraqi weapons . |
| 14 | But the machines have been overwhelmed since the 1960s , not least by the impact of mass media and by demographic upheaval : New York 's non-Hispanic white population dropped from 77% of the total to 43% between 1960 and 1990 . |
| 15 | Cormorants no longer breed , and the Raven has not nested since 1895 , apart from a pair , one bird at least of which was an escaped pet , which nested between 1938 and 1945 . |
| 16 | Similarly , it would be erroneous to equate contemporary French fiction exclusively with the nouveau roman , despite the hegemonic position it has clearly occupied since the 1950s : the work of writers as diverse ( and as removed from the nouveau roman and Tel Quel ) as Georges Perec and Michel Tournier also demands the attention of those seeking to map the postmodern . |
| 17 | When portions of present-day Indian pueblos occupied since that time are uncovered , their walls prove to be laid up of long pours of puddled mud . |
| 18 | The space available to Central Office was increased by the acquisition of St Stephen 's House as well as St Stephen 's Chambers , which had been occupied since 1874 ; the new office cost $3,000 a year in rent alone . |
| 19 | Among the conditions for the achievement of a comprehensive solution were : Israel 's withdrawal from " Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 , including Jerusalem , and from the other occupied Arab territories " ; the dismantling of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories ; and the guaranteeing of the security of all states in the region , including those named in Resolution 181 … within secure and recognized boundaries " . |
| 20 | Over 1,000 secondary schools had been occupied since mid-December by pupils protesting at new measures to improve discipline , at the lack of funds and resources , and at the generally poor state of many schools . |
| 21 | The resolution reaffirmed the de jure applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention to all territories occupied since 1967 , including Jerusalem . |
| 22 | New Age travellers are being escorted by police from a farm they 've occupied since the weekend . |
| 23 | Merchandise exports had stagnated since 1988 , as Greece lost some of its share of foreign markets in manufactured goods . |
| 24 | While UK per capita alcohol consumption has hardly varied since the late 1970s , sales of spirits have been falling . |
| 25 | Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co Ltd has resumed its international phone service to Iraq , discontinued since the Gulf War : the company has also added calling line identification facilities to its international ISDN links with British Telecommunications Plc and has begun offering its Auto-credit service in Holland and Sweden , which enables its subscribers to make calls to Japan and charge them to their credit cards . |
| 26 | Two ETA members arrested in Anglet ( France ) in January 1990 [ following the discovery of an arsenal there — see p. 37588 ] , Carmelo García Merchán and Manuel Murua Alberdi , were on Sept. 8 flown to Spain by the French authorities to face a number of charges , including six assassinations committed since 1982 . |
| 27 | She wondered again how many offences she had committed since failing to go to the police in Paris . |
| 28 | That person may sue for any trespass committed since the accrual of the right of entry . |
| 29 | Already over 400 people have been shed since the beginning of the year , and the Prime Computer Inc that is going public on revised terms and will change its name to Computervision Corp , will end up with 5,900 people , and annual sales of some $1,200m , mainly computer-aided design software and maintenance . |
| 30 | According to the International Herald Tribune ( Keller , 1988 ) there are reports from Moscow that five planned Soviet nuclear power stations have been cancelled since the 1986 disaster in the Ukraine . |