Example sentences of "have be [prep] [noun] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of a move into Europe has been under consideration since at least 1989 , the year when Darty was first approached by Kingfisher . |
| 2 | In today 's attack one of the shot workmen was hit as he tried to make a run for it at Gortree Park where a major housing renovation scheme has been under way since before Christmas . |
| 3 | Similarly , because the IfS considers the number of weeks a person has been without work since their previous job , those who have never had a job are also excluded . |
| 4 | That is what has been at issue since the Single European Act — I was not here before that — and today with the treaty of union . |
| 5 | Mick Banks has been in institutions since he was 12 . |
| 6 | The manipulation of such traits is not new because a form of genetic engineering has been in operation since humans , c. 10 kyr BP ( section 3.3.1 ) , first began to select plants and animals for agricultural purposes . |
| 7 | The junk bond market has been in trouble since Canadian developer Robert Campeau ran into trouble meeting payments on his debt in Allied and Federated stores last month . |
| 8 | Keith Pringle , 22 , of Thirlmere Road , Darlington , has been in hospital since the siege ended on April 21 . |
| 9 | " This whole town has been in aspic since before the war . |
| 10 | ABOVE : Lodgemore Mill has been in use since at least the 12th century and is still in use for cloth manufacture . |
| 11 | He 'd been in custody since early February accused of attempted robbery . |
| 12 | Plainly national security can not have been at stake since that had already been damaged . |
| 13 | The Captain , having been at work since the call from the hospital at six , had not had time to read the morning paper . |
| 14 | Neither of Jo 's parents had been to Europe since her father returned from the war . |
| 15 | The full effects of the theological liberalism which had been at work since the nineteenth century came into their own in the English-speaking world after the publication of Honest to God ( Robinson 1963 ) . |
| 16 | He had been with Sandford since he was a boy and spoke adequate English . |
| 17 | Even as the company got bigger , the familial atmosphere on which Virgin had been built in the early Seventies stayed strong , a flame that was kept alight by those who had been with Virgin since the earliest days , until it became a myth , self-perpetuating and strong enough to touch any newcomer to the organisation , strong enough to have even Richard Branson in its grip . |
| 18 | " I had been off school since before my mum found out as I had been sick with gastric " flu . |
| 19 | The Judaization of Jerusalem had been under way since the Israelis occupied the whole city in 1967 , but this was the first occasion on which Jews had moved into the Christian Quarter . |
| 20 | Ostensibly , efforts at drafting the constitution had been under way since the mid-1970s , but real progress had only become evident in mid-1990 when a first draft was published for discussion . |
| 21 | David Smith had been under suspension since the complaint was made . |
| 22 | Areas around Ramallah and el-Bireh had been under curfew since the killing of a settler at the beginning of the intifada [ see pp. 35856-61 ] . |
| 23 | That is to say , Tolkien 's stories could be said to be an embodiment of that Northernness with which Lewis and Greeves had been in love since early adolescence . |
| 24 | Massive , grizzled and elderly , he had been in ships since he was a boy , and he wanted no other life . |
| 25 | Abdulla Khalid al-Attiya , general manager of the Qatar National Bank , was appointed governor of the Qatar Monetary Agency ( QMA — central bank ) on Jan. 14 , 1990 , replacing Majid Muhammad al-Majid al-Saad , who had been in office since the QMA was founded in 1973 . |
| 26 | These restrictions had been in force since armed conflict with former leader Gamsakhurdia erupted in October 1991 [ see p. 38538 ] . |
| 27 | People would still be living here who had been in residence since before the war and were holding on to controlled tenancies until dislodged by offers of cash or other accommodation , but they would not be there much longer . |
| 28 | Twenty one year old Wayne O'Hora , also from Ecton Brook had been in custody since the killing , but Northampton magistrates granted him conditional bail until next month . |
| 29 | I 've been at boarding-school since I was eight because my parents live abroad . |
| 30 | They 've been under scrutiny since they met — a considerable strain for any relationship , and doubly so for one as close as theirs . |