Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] be [verb] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been falling since nineteen |
| 2 | The rucksack and the rifle I had been carrying since yesterday evening seemed like a ton weight . |
| 3 | One of his earliest discoveries in this field was how to make Tyrian purple — an indigo derivative — from certain shellfish , a secret which had been lost since Roman times . |
| 4 | There were widely held concerns over the funding of the mission , the dispatch of which had been delayed since November 1991 when the leaders of three of the four factions returned to Phnom Penh , the capital . |
| 5 | An ECU 500 million ( about US$625 million line of credit for food and agricultural products guaranteed by the European Communities ( EC ) to the former Soviet Union , which had been delayed since November , was finally granted to Russia alone , it was announced on March 4 by Deutsche Bank , whose Luxembourg subsidiary was the lead bank of the consortium providing the credit . |
| 6 | Her visit , which had been repeated since 1935 , was , I learnt later , not an unmixed pleasure for him . |
| 7 | An agricultural relief committee was established in 1983 by a handful of young agricultural engineers , some of whom had already been working with ‘ the voluntary work committees ’ , a network of skilled and unskilled workers which had been operating since the mid-1970s . |
| 8 | This was a major departure for NATO , which had been based since its foundation in 1949 on the principles of taking joint action in defence of member states only and of restricting operations to a clearly designated area covering the member states ' territories . |
| 9 | Mr Holland was due to meet AMP 's chairman , David Anderson , today in a meeting which had been planned since June . |
| 10 | The influence of the cinema on children and young people provided a sharp focus for these anxieties , which had been aired since the arrival of the first silent movies . |
| 11 | Particularly divisive at a parochial level was the stress placed by the bishops on the need for a greater reverence in the communion rite , and their determination that the portable communion tables , which had been used since Elizabethan times , should be replaced by altars permanently positioned at the east end of the chancel and separated from the body of the church by altar rails . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Such a strategy underpinned the demonstration project which had been running since 1977 in Eindhoven and Rijswijk . |
| 14 | EC Education Ministers agreed on Dec. 14 , 1989 , at a meeting in Brussels to extend the Erasmus programme of inter-university exchanges , which had been running since 1988 , for a further five years from 1990 to 1994 . |
| 15 | He pursued the antimicrobial properties of soil organisms , particularly actinomycetes , which had been known since the 1920s to produce inhibitory substances . |
| 16 | A close alignment with Egypt was established , confirming a relationship which had been improving since 1989 . |
| 17 | Several senior government appointees were retired from the armed forces on Sept. 5 , in the context of a major restructuring of the military which had been anticipated since the April coup attempt , and in line with the policy of transition from military to civilian rule . |
| 18 | It was anticipated , therefore , that the Premiers ' talks — three sessions of which had been held since September 1990 — would be resumed in April or May . |
| 19 | Jagmohan , the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir , on Feb. 19 dissolved the State Assembly , which had been suspended since Jan. 19 when the state was placed under Governor 's rule [ see pp. 37183-84 ] . |
| 20 | The council of the 41-member International Cocoa Organization ( ICCO ) on March 30 voted almost unanimously to extend the 1986 International Cocoa Agreement between producers and consumers [ see p. 35294 ] for a two-year period from Oct. 1 , but without its provisions to regulate world supplies and prices , which had been suspended since 1988 . |
| 21 | On Oct. 17 sources in Saudi Arabia said that it had been decided to renew economic relations with Jordan which had been suspended since the Gulf War . |
| 22 | Once finalized , the new accord was expected to open the way to resumption of debt reduction talks with Western commercial banks which had been suspended since June 1991 . |
| 23 | They thus salvaged the process of European integration which had been stalled since the Danish " no " vote in a referendum in June 1992 on ratification of the Maastricht Treaty on European Union [ see pp. 38942-43 ] . |
| 24 | It was decided in 1985 that the maypole , which had been standing since 1953 , was no longer safe and should be replaced . |
| 25 | For English fans , though , there was pleasure that their team had begun to show heart and direction and purpose , all of which had been missing since the Ashes tour of 1986–7 ; while West Indian fans were just happy that their heroes had shown that , after all , W.B. Yeats had got it wrong and the centre could hold . |
| 26 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had decided to use some of the proceeds from its sale of the Harrison-Towns field to build squash-courts , and the Parents ' Association was about to launch an Appeal to raise money for a swimming pool , the lack of which had been bemoaned since the move to Buxton Road . |
| 27 | He says about three years ago Lord Rothschild asked us to restore the rock garden at Waddeson which had been overgrown since the 1920s . |
| 28 | Iraq accused Iran on Oct. 9 , 1989 , of " violating the diplomatic sanctity " of the Iraqi embassy residence in Tehran ( which had been closed since December 1987 , diplomatic relations having formally been severed in October — see p. 35601 ) . |
| 29 | The European Parliament voted by a large majority in January 1990 to freeze scientific co-operation between EC countries and Israel until universities on the West Bank , which had been closed since the beginning of the uprising , were reopened . |
| 30 | Vietnam and China officially re-opened on April 1 the Friendship Pass border crossing between China 's Guangxi and Vietnam 's Lang Son provinces , which had been closed since the border war in 1979 . |