Example sentences of "has be [adj] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ecstasy , which has been illegal since 1977 , is used by many on the rave scene . |
| 2 | The sale of cigarettes to children has been illegal since 1904 . |
| 3 | ISOSCELES , the debt-burdened Gateway supermarket group , has appointed Bob Nellist as finance director , a post which has been vacant since the departure of Elizabeth Hignell last September . |
| 4 | ‘ Secondly , the post of organiser at the Whyte House , is ACE-funded and has been vacant since December 1992 and all attempts to fill it have proved unsuccessful . |
| 5 | Although the test has been available since 1985 , the question most of us still face is when is the right time to get tested . |
| 6 | It has been available since September 1987 , with the first examinations in summer 1989 . |
| 7 | The 25-year-old Welshman , who had been favourite to take the Olympic title , has been unbeaten since the Games . |
| 8 | This dilemma has been present since the beginnings of institutionalized literary study . |
| 9 | The balance of trade has been negative since 1982 , and in 1989 hit a record £24 billion |
| 10 | He knows she has been married since graduating but does n't know her present surname or whereabouts . |
| 11 | The leadership election has been uncontested since 1975 . |
| 12 | The expression has been extinct since the second world war . |
| 13 | In Chester-le-Street , which has been Labour since Genesis , the Liberal Democrat wins a school mock election ahead of the very pretty Conservative , with Labour last . |
| 14 | The spa at Evian has been famous since the 18th century as the place to go for the treatment of kidney stones and urinary infections . |
| 15 | Greenland has been autonomous since May 1 , 1979 , and has a parliament ( Landsting ) and government ( Landsstyre ) with full executive authority , but it remains an integral part of the Kingdom of Denmark . |
| 16 | Butcher thought his career was over when he left Coventry last season , but he has been outstanding since joining the Wearsiders . |
| 17 | The registration of births , marriages and deaths has been compulsory since the middle of last century and is used to supplement census figures in intervening years . |
| 18 | Will my right hon. Friend note that , in comparison with the Labour party , which has changed its mind many times , the Conservative party has been consistent since the 1960s — a policy that has led to greater union among the peoples of Europe ? |
| 19 | ( In the metalworking industry no national wage agreement for manual workers has been possible since 1974 . ) |
| 20 | Gloucester was ideally placed to satisfy this need — something which has been underemphasized since Kendall 's romantic portrait of him as an isolated northern figure . |
| 21 | Gloucester was ideally placed to satisfy this need — something which has been underemphasized since Kendall 's romantic portrait of him as an isolated northern figure . |
| 22 | The Stroudwater Canal , built more than 200 years ago , has been derelict since the 1940's . |
| 23 | Huston-Miyamoto developed a CAI package which has been operational since 1979 for users of the Library Computer System ( LCS ) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . |
| 24 | The full network of 82 training and enterprise councils has been operational since last October . |
| 25 | It achieved funding for a full-time advice worker in 1983 , although funding has been precarious since the abolition of the GLC . |
| 26 | Trading in these securities has been sparse since the crash in October 1987 , and the recent withdrawals of marketmakers such as Warburg Securities , UBS Phillips & Drew and County NatWest from dealing in the securities of many smaller companies has left them without the mandatory two marketmakers for inclusion in the SEAQ system of continuously updated two-way prices . |
| 27 | ‘ I think I could take a barrister 's brief for arguing that up to , say , 1985 the squeeze was a necessary remedy for the rather free expansion which had taken place in the 1960s , and early 1970s , ’ says Sir Eric , ‘ but I do n't believe I could even theoretically argue that it has been justifiable since then . |
| 28 | This has been obvious since the seventeenth century . |
| 29 | Although the Bury to Heywood line has been disused since 1980 , the majority of track remains in place thanks to the persuasive powers that Rochdale Council exerted on British Rail at the time . |
| 30 | The River Arun , from Littlehampton on the English Channel to Pulborough in West Sussex , has been navigable since the seventeenth century . |