Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [prep] [noun] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | THOUSANDS of people will take to the streets of Glasgow tomorrow in support of the Albion axle factory , which has been under threat since the financial collapse of its Dutch parent company last month . |
| 2 | The Institute of Directors has pointed out that ‘ the 5th Company Law Directive has been under discussion since 1972 , with no agreement yet in sight ’ . |
| 3 | There is no legislative assembly , although the formation of an advisory assembly has been under consideration since 1980 . |
| 4 | The combined numbers of these three are perhaps 100 or 200 at the most , although an urgent conservation programme has been under way since 1980 . |
| 5 | Work on the successors to the T9000 has been under way since 1991 , he explained , under Inmos 's Chameleon programme . |
| 6 | Work on the successors to the T9000 has been under way since 1991 under Inmos 's Chameleon programme . |
| 7 | A comparable scheme has been under way since 1978 in West Germany , where products judged environment-XXXX friendly have been awarded " Blue Angel " status . |
| 8 | The network has been under trial since July last year and although the switching equipment for the trial was supplied by Alcatel NV , the final order , worth £3m , went to GEC Plessey Telecommunications Ltd in conjunction with Siemens AG , against bids from AT&T Co , Alcatel and others . |
| 9 | A massive scheme for the Hong Shui River in Guanxi province has been under study since the 1950s . |
| 10 | He was made redundant in March 1991 and received payments until returning to full-time work in July 1991 , but suffered a prolapsed disc a month later and has been off work since then . |
| 11 | The Longhope boat , the David and Elizabeth King , E B , is a solent class self righting lifeboat and has been on station since nineteen seventy . |
| 12 | IN MID SEPTEMBER , 28XX class No.3822 returns to the Great Western Society from the West Somerset Railway where it has been on loan since March 19th this year . |
| 13 | Mr Heyes , who has been with Compass since 1972 , will be based in Glasgow but responsible for the North of England . |
| 14 | He has been with JM since September 1981 when he joined as Administrative Assistant in the Group Staff Department at the former Head Office in Southgate , North London . |
| 15 | Volvo , for example , has been with AMV since day one . |
| 16 | He has been with LASMO since 1989 , first as executive chairman of LASMO North Sea , then joining the board of directors and , more recently in June 1992 , being appointed chief operating officer responsible for the day-to-day running of the group 's worldwide operations . |
| 17 | Stützer , who has been at Kamekestrasse since 1980 and whose programme consists mainly of sculpture , is , until 6 June , showing neo-Constructivist works by the Yugoslav-born sculptor Wasa Marjanov . |
| 18 | The RAF has been at Abingdon since 1932 . |
| 19 | This process has been at work since the Industrial Revolution . |
| 20 | Hong Kong remains almost as uncompetitive as it has been at anytime since 1986 , and is far less competitive than a year ago . |
| 21 | Much may be blamed on the impermeable Alan Beith , who has been at Berwick since 1973 and thinks nothing to striding round five villages , after starting on Holy Island in the sort of rain that suggests God getting out the strap , and then darting up to Duns in what was Berwickshire , Scotland , to do a broadcast . |
| 22 | She has been at Orion since October , and has been responsible for , among other things , the marketing of Vikram Seth 's A Suitable Boy . |
| 23 | Those on the list are : Mr Sisulu , sentenced with Mr Mandela to life imprisonment in the ‘ Rivonia Trial ’ of 1964 ; four other Rivonia triallists - Raymond Mhlaba , Elias Motsoaledi , Andrew Mlangeni , Ahmed Kathrada , Wilton Mkwayi and the oldest of them all , 80-year-old Oscar Mpheta , a trade union leader who has been behind bars since 1980 , and whose whose sentence runs out next year . |
| 24 | Bolz , who has been in Cologne since 1986 , specialises in drawing and painting by young artists , among them Ernst Caramelle , V.A . |
| 25 | Pakistan has been in upheaval since May 26th , when the Supreme Court overturned President Ishaq 's dismissal of the government and gave Mr Sharif his job back . |
| 26 | The breed has been in Britain since the eleventh century , when by William of Orange reputedly owner the first . |
| 27 | This series , with accompanying maps , was started in 1950 ( and has been in revision since 1970 ) . |
| 28 | Down , Leonard has been in Newry since 1983 . |
| 29 | The Brigade has been in Normandy since the 6th June in constant contact with the enemy until we reached the Seine . |
| 30 | Of particular interest here is the work of the Financial Information Project which has been in existence since 1979 . |