Example sentences of "have been a [noun] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arson has been a problem since last August . |
| 2 | This attractive stone house dates from the 1750s , and has been a hotel since the 1930s . |
| 3 | There has been a herdbook since 1974 in Britain . |
| 4 | Inhabited since the Stone Age , this has been a resort since Roman times . |
| 5 | Efforts are being made to allow the National Trust for Scotland , with support from the National Heritage Memorial Fund , to buy the building , which has been a convent since 1958 . |
| 6 | Smith has been a revelation since his arrival in the summer . |
| 7 | In Germany population screening for prostate cancer has been a policy since 1978 , and in Belgium an insurance supported annual check up includes a rectal examination . |
| 8 | Any genuinely orthodox unionist would have been a member since late adolescence ! |
| 9 | The Republic of Namibia achieved independence in March 1990 [ see pp. 37296-97 ] , having been a colony since 1884 , first under German and , since 1915 , under South African rule . |
| 10 | The Hon. Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke , ‘ You can call me Mollie ’ , had been a widow since 1979 when her husband was lost in a blizzard . |
| 11 | Where was all the self-assurance , the sophisticated enlightenment of the classical world , of which Egypt had been a part since the time of Alexander ? |
| 12 | When negotiations with Honorius failed to bring rewards Athaulf showed both his anger and his desire to be associated with the Empire by marrying the emperor 's sister , Galla Placidia , who had been a captive since 410 . |
| 13 | There had been a bridge since Roman times , and some remains of a medieval one can still be seen . |
| 14 | He bequeathed his valuable genealogical collections to the Society of Antiquaries , of which he had been a fellow since 1901 . |
| 15 | The German Air Ministry building in the Leipzigstrasse , for example , which had been a target since September 1940 , remained unscathed until it suffered slight damage in a US daylight raid in 1944 ! |
| 16 | You can dance like Ginger Rogers You 've a figure like Marilyn Monroe You 've been a blonde since a week last Thursday So yir roots have n't started to show … |
| 17 | So thank you GH for proving your worth time and again — I 've been a reader since my marriage 25 years ago ! |