Example sentences of "has [be] [v-ing] [adv] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a topic which the E E F has been promoting hard since last October . |
| 2 | She has been living there since leaving Keith in the family home a mile away . |
| 3 | In the sandy soils under General Ripper 's airbase , as in aquifers throughout the agricultural Europe , the ‘ time bomb ’ of nitrate pollution has been ticking away since the 1950s . |
| 4 | The case of the proposed sale by London University 's Royal Holloway College of a good Turner , Constable and Gainsborough ( in that order ) from the collection given to it by its founder Thomas Holloway has been rumbling on since 1988 , arousing increasing indignation in some academic and most heritage circles . |
| 5 | Neil Kinnock said last night that the rise in interest rates was ‘ a shattering blow both to households right across Britain and also to industries , and it 's even worse because it 's a blow that has been gathering ever since the first day that this Government decided its one and only economic policy would be a reliance on interest rates ’ . |
| 6 | The room has some striking windows bearing the stained glass coats of arms of the Swiss cantons , and can be visited when the district court , which has been meeting there since 1876 , is not in session . |
| 7 | The company has been operating independently since January 1 , and is not yet being treated as a discontinued operation by Tandy , although that should happen next time the company reports . |
| 8 | Although the TEC has been operating only since 1 April this year , Roy Knott and his team have shown that they are dedicated to the employment training future for Shropshire . |
| 9 | The spread of AIDS may have signalled the end of the gigantic sex trip that has been going on since the sixties . |
| 10 | All that has been going on since the dawn of civilisation is that man has , in effect , been doing just that . |
| 11 | There are a number of problems caused by a protracted campaign — and arguably , this election has been going on since last autumn when everyone started wondering whether Major could pull it off . |
| 12 | ICL 's parallel engine will effectively productise work that has been going on since 1989 under the auspices of a European Community Esprit II project known as the European Declarative System , EDS . |
| 13 | Work has been going on since October to convert a church basement into a sophisticated club for people aged between 14 and 18 . |
| 14 | The banks approved the first outline of the proposals in October , but detailed work on the final draft has been going on since then . |
| 15 | or whether there is really a situation there , which probably has been going on since time in memorial , that we 've only just started to hear about it . |
| 16 | Equally , we must have realistic expectations of TECs and realise that those that have not been in existence for very long — as is the case with our own TEC , which has been going only since April — will take time to work themselves up to their most effective point . |
| 17 | He is part of a multidisciplinary team which has been working together since 1984 . |
| 18 | The Pavlova leather works in Abingdon has been working solidly since 1917 . |
| 19 | Around July time Sequent will release , for its Symmetry servers , the version of Unix SVR4 ES/MP that it worked on for Unix System Labs and has been sitting on since completion last March . |
| 20 | The last ten days gradually it has been coming back since the really trough period in late January with the war and the snow , etc. , and in fact this week erm we 're expecting this week to probably do double the level of bookings that we did last week , and that 's on overseas holidays for summer and winter . |
| 21 | In the rural areas of Wales and Scotland the tradition of non-partisan elections continues in some areas , but even so the role of the parties has been growing consistently since local government reorganisation ( Gyford and James 1983:2 ; Keating and Midwinter 1983 ; 107 — 13 ) . |
| 22 | The dome of Santiaguito in Guatemala has been growing ever since 1922 , and was still growing at the time of writing . |
| 23 | Literature about informal carers and the experience of caring has been growing ever since the pioneering work of Abrams ( e.g. 1980 ) . |
| 24 | The average size of the sentenced prison population has been increasing steadily since the Second World War . |
| 25 | ‘ Demand has been increasing steadily since November and we 're now dealing with twice the number of applications compared to the same time last year . |
| 26 | However , it is not commonly recognised that the Anglican liturgy has been evolving continuously since the sixteenth century . |