Example sentences of "[vb past] be since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leslie was happier than he had been since joining the army . |
| 2 | He was their paying guest and had been since that afternoon seven years ago when he had tracked Rachel Gebler down to her home in this seaside suburb close to the famous swimming beaches . |
| 3 | It was substantially enlarged from £30 million per annum to about £125 million per annum , and was transferred from the Home Office ( where it had been since 1968 ) to the Department of the Environment . |
| 4 | The necessity of constructing popular consent among the electorate was an important component of Conservative thought , and had been since extension of the franchise to sections of the urban working classes in 1867 . |
| 5 | He was rude to officials and contemptuous of backbenchers less successful in their careers than he had been since becoming MP for Putney in 1979 . |
| 6 | For Nestor , it was a courageous near-miss , an almost-historic encore that placed Canada closer to the final eight than it had been since 1913 ( when Canada made the Challenge round final — with only nine countries competing ) . |
| 7 | At first appraisal , Great Britain was , in 1914 , undisputed mistress of the seas , as she had been since 1805 when Admiral Lord Nelson destroyed the combined Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar . |
| 8 | Between 1950 and 1975 the female proportion of the working population rose from 33 per cent ( which it had been since the 1890s ) to over 40 per cent ( Hunt , 1975 ) . |
| 9 | On 2 March 1939 Pacelli was elected pope in succession to Pius XI in the shortest conclave there had been since 1623 . |
| 10 | Unionists of the time would scarcely have recognized the terms of the debate , for in 1922 the party was still embroiled with Ireland and the House of Lords , held a smaller share of the popular vote than ever before , and was still split as it had been since 1902 ; few Unionists would have seen the war as a turning-point for the better in the party fortunes . |
| 11 | So the Dimbleby company turned to TBF ( Printers ) Ltd , which was itself a company closely associated with ( same shareholdings , same management ) T. Bailey Forman Ltd , with whom the NUJ was engaged in a trade dispute and had been since 1979 . |
| 12 | When Scarlet attempted to disagree , albeit feebly , Constance cited the scandals in the City and pointed out that the gap between the highest- and the lowest-paid was greater now than it had been since the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | The car heater kept him warmer than he had been since leaving Celia 's flat . |
| 14 | That stopped Jessamy saying anything for quite some time , because it was a frighteningly accurate description of how her life had been since their break-up . |
| 15 | Yet blind instinct told her that Rohan was her man , and had been since time began . |
| 16 | Her mousy hair had been bleached by the sun to a more nearly-blonde than it had been since her childhood , and her skin was very brown . |
| 17 | It was dark , and had been since mid-afternoon . |
| 18 | The VP , however , remained the dominant force in Vanuatu politics as it had been since independence , and won all five by-elections in December 1989 caused by the resignations of the Sope faction after the leadership struggle . |
| 19 | Legislative power in the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) , a name adopted in April 1989 by what had been since 1979 the People 's Republic of Kampuchea [ for previous names see p. 37289 ] , is vested in the National Assembly . |
| 20 | The warm feeling induced by the spirit made her aware of how cold she had been since hearing the news . |
| 21 | Holding Management Inc. in the USA where he had been since 1983 . |