Example sentences of "has be [vb pp] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Logging in the region has been halted since 1990 by court actions to protect the habitat of the northern spotted owl , leading to thousands of job losses [ see EDs 70 ; passim ] . |
| 2 | In Nigeria , for example , alley-cropping has been developed since the 1970s . |
| 3 | A related , though significantly different , approach has been developed since the 1960s in the community education movement . |
| 4 | City 's defence , which has conceeded 40 goals this season , has been strengthened since his arrival a month ago from St James ' Park . |
| 5 | The race mauretanicus , on the other hand , may now be appearing less frequently , and only one has been recorded since 1971 . |
| 6 | The situation has been publicised since last year by the relief agencies and others , but the UN was slow to get involved . |
| 7 | ‘ County Durham 's constabulary has been increased since 1979 and the Home Office is still looking at the possibility of reallocating some of the 1,000 extra posts to the county , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Another distinctive type of patinated metalwork , known as bidri , has been made since the seventeenth century or earlier and is produced in India to this day ( fig. 5.17 ) . |
| 9 | Scientific reference to these protozoa has been made since the early 1930's . |
| 10 | Much progress has been made since the days of the Chicago School in terms of understanding the biological and instinctive bases of individual and social behaviour . |
| 11 | Whyte 's five-match international career has been stunted since his debut as a teenager . |
| 12 | The Magnox reactor has been shut since February . |
| 13 | No rent has been paid since July 1990 and the club has been shut since a serious fire last April . |
| 14 | My tank has been matured since last December and I have lost a Fireball Angel , a Swallow Tail Angel and a Cream Angel . |
| 15 | This statement defined the procedure which has been followed since October 1987 , and which has been applied in the case of all four appellants . |
| 16 | The lawsuit has been delayed since September , when the three states vowed to reach an out-of-court compromise . |
| 17 | The implementation of Part V of the FSA ( covering Offers of Unlisted Securities ) has been delayed since 1986 and since that time the EC directive on prospectuses has been adopted . |
| 18 | As a way of encouraging them to return , food aid to the refugee camps has been withheld since last summer . |
| 19 | Uncontrolled fusion has been achieved since 1952 with the detonation of thermonuclear weapons . |
| 20 | The Islamic Republic of Mauritania , formerly part of French West Africa , gained full independence in 1960 and has been ruled since a military coup in 1978 by a Military Council of National Salvation ( Comité militaire de salut national — CMSN ) , headed by a chairman ( currently Col. Moaouia Ould Sidi Mohamed Taya ) who is President of the Republic and whose executive power derives from a Constitutional Charter published in 1978 . |
| 21 | Although the archive has been used from time to time by researchers in pursuit of specific information , no general survey of the contents has been undertaken since the death of Lord Beveridge in 1963 . |
| 22 | She has been spoiled since birth . ’ |
| 23 | Most of this is obtained from the lakes of the Lake District ( see page 134 ) but the largest reservoir in Britain , Kielder Water , has been formed since 1980 by flooding low value farmland in the northern Pennines . |
| 24 | A number of major reports were produced in this way ( see Chapter 3 ) , but no CACE has been constituted since 1967 , and later government reports have been issued by committees set up to consider particular issues . |
| 25 | A further £495,000 has been converted since the year end . |
| 26 | And Darlington College of Technology has been involved since September 1990 . |
| 27 | Some 60 per cent of the Lacandona — North America 's largest rainforest — has been destroyed since 1970 , partly due to the previous Mexican policy of populating the Guatemalan border area at a time of tension between the two states . |
| 28 | Viral hepatitis has been recognized since the Second World War as being divisible into two distinct types . |
| 29 | The importance of the AER in stimulating limb outgrowth has been recognized since the 1940s . |
| 30 | The problem is also significant in China where there are c. 170 000 km 2 of desertified land , approximately 30 per cent of which has been created since 1920 ( Zhu Zhenda 1982 , quoted in Kebin and Kaiguo 1989 ) . |