Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [be] [v-ing] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | That increase resulted in the rest of the world overtaking the European Community , whose investment had been falling since 1987 , reaching an all-time low in 1991 , with a share of just over 3 per cent . |
| 2 | Mohammed Siyad Barre fled to Kenya on April 29 after forces of the United Somali Congress ( USC ) captured the south-western town of Garbaharrey where the former President had been living since being ousted from Mogadishu in January 1991 [ see pp. 37946-47 ] . |
| 3 | This was a very different message from that which the British embassy in Washington had been delivering since August . |
| 4 | Certain British officers had been friendly with Saw , while Military Intelligence had been indicating since May that Saw was planning to seize power . |
| 5 | ( We can see how the new Aeschylean note that Nietzsche had been sounding since his lectures of 1870 was , like much else , in harmony with Wagner 's aspiration . ) |
| 6 | To offer a perhaps extreme example , the Gloucestershire clothiers who celebrated the completing in 1779 – 82 of the Stroudwater Canal had been trying since 1730 to intercept the coal supplies moving down the Severn from the pits of the Midlands . |
| 7 | In any case , there was more than enough to do in repairing the faults of the existing system and correcting the injustices which they and their predecessors had been denouncing since the 1920s . |
| 8 | ( Bronislaw Geremek of the Democratic Union , whom he had asked on Nov. 8 , had admitted failure on Nov. 13 , and Walesa had been seeking since then to find another alternative to Olszewski — see p. 38586 — reportedly preferring the reappointment of Bielecki . ) |
| 9 | But , if underfloor engines and transmissions were to be used , they had to be in a different league of reliability and performance from the DMUs which BR had been running since the 1950s . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , from his point of view , the celebrations turned into an open demonstration of the values which Russian intellectuals had been cultivating since the 1830s . |
| 11 | Palestinian and Jordanian pressure for a summit had been mounting since April , and in early May Iraq announced that it would host the meeting . |
| 12 | The Interior Ministry announced on May 22 that increasing unrest was the preliminary stage of a military coup which the banned Islamic fundamentalist Nahda movement had been preparing since 1988 . |
| 13 | The current phase of the debate had been developing since January 1992 when the country 's veteran leader , Deng Xiaoping , had used a tour of the special enterprise zones in southern China as an opportunity to praise the free market as a key mechanism of economic growth [ see p. 38722 ] . |
| 14 | The success of " East Coker " emphasized what the critics had been saying since the publication of the Collected Poems four years before : Eliot was the most substantial , if no longer the most startling , poet writing in English . |
| 15 | Underlying this change in public consciousness were fundamental changes in women 's lives : family size had been shrinking since early in the century ; and more women , especially married women , were in paid work . |
| 16 | They would instantly begin questioning the way the world had been running since their enforced absence , and they would not approve ; whereas those who lay softly beneath the blowing grasses , the quiet slate , had long since turned over in rest and when they woke would wake like children and smile at the sky . |
| 17 | They parried before she admitted her father 's list had been missing since the day before his death , and he had believed Mona Washbrooke had stolen it and was also guilty of going through his papers . |