Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] since [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although an estimated 450 kg of cocaine and other drugs had been discovered since the US invasion , none could be linked directly with Noriega . ) |
| 2 | The court was then given the results of research that had been conducted since the suit was filed in 1987 . |
| 3 | The notes of guidance accompanying the Secretary of State 's announcement on the polytechnics in 1967 were considered by the Council to be ‘ considerably more liberal than the original draft which had been amended since the Chairman of the Council had made representations about the matter to the Secretary of State ’ . |
| 4 | The election of a mayor had been delayed since the resignation of a candidate originally elected on Feb. 9 ( an independent supported by the HDUR ) . |
| 5 | It had been repainted since the war , but , as far as she knew , it had never given forth music . |
| 6 | The two weeks of training on the Soltau-Luneberg Training Area had given the Royal Scots the opportunity to test to the full those operating procedures and ideas that had been developed since the conversion to Warrior had started in the new year . |
| 7 | In retrospect , the public recognition of child abuse as an extensive social phenomenon can be seen to have caused a break in the policy tradition under which child care services had been developed since the Second World War . |
| 8 | By July 18th 1807 , 515 in-patients and 189 out-patients had been treated since the infirmary had been opened . |
| 9 | The latter formation had been created since the March election under the leadership of former Prime Minister Maj.-Gen. |
| 10 | The farm at Hackballs Cross had been neglected since the sun came out . |
| 11 | On June 20 , the Bosnian Presidency [ for membership see below ] declared a state of war , and a general mobilization in Bosnia-Hercegovina , where , it said , 7,200 people had been killed since the start of fighting , more than 30,000 were missing presumed dead , and there were 1,303,469 refugees . |
| 12 | Only twenty-seven new members had been enrolled since the Leeds Congress , and the total membership still stood at less than one hundred . |
| 13 | The matron , wife of the master ( an arrangement which had been continued since the riots seventy years before ) , had no professional control of the nursing staff ; her position was that of overall housekeeper . |
| 14 | In Surrey , Staffordshire , Sussex , Leicestershire , Rutland , Nottinghamshire , Lancashire and Dorset the jurors declared that all the forests there had been established since the accession of Henry II , and that only those lands and woods held by him in demesne — the ‘ ancient demesnes of the Crown , — could , according to the Charter of the Forest , remain in the Forest . |
| 15 | According to Vietnamese officials , 217 foreign investment projects worth a total of US$1,400 million had been approved since the passage in late 1987 of liberal foreign investment legislation [ see pp. 35900-01 ] . |
| 16 | The mines had been worked since the Roman period , but extensive exploitation began in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , when the port of Amlwch was built to handle the copper . |
| 17 | The explosions followed an announcement by Col. Gregorio " Gringo " Honasan , a fugitive since leading a 1987 coup attempt [ see pp. 35709-12 ] , that his rebel forces would resume " tactical operations " which had been suspended since the Cabanatuan City earthquake in July . |
| 18 | The seat had been held since the 1990 general election by Miklós Németh , Hungary 's last Prime Minister under the transitional communist regime in 1988-90 , who had left for a new career as vice-president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development . |
| 19 | The " Pass " had been closed since the deterioration in Sino-Vietnamese relations in the late 1970s , except for the infrequent exchange of prisoners of war . |
| 20 | The establishment of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976 saw the final re-unification of a country that had been divided since the late 19th century , first by French colonialism , and subsequently by , inter alia , international politics . |
| 21 | The name change , which will officially happen in January 1992 , had been expected since the association took delivery of a weighty industry assessment from Saatchi & Saatchi last summer . |
| 22 | On Aug. 10 it was reported that over 47,000 commercial licences had been issued since the relegalization of small-scale private enterprise in February [ see p. 37252 ] . |
| 23 | If you measure the atmospheric rise in carbon dioxide due to fossil fuel burning , you 'll see that it 's only about one half of that predicted if all of the coal and oil that had been burnt since the industrial revolution had gone into the atmosphere , we would probably have er an increase in C O two double what we can actually measure . |