Example sentences of "has be [v-ing] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arafat , determined to rally Palestinians behind the deal , began the round of meetings on Thursday and has been struggling since then to overcome opposition of at least four of the 12 members attending , Palestinian sources said . |
| 2 | With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-Patiño should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 . |
| 3 | Her novels have the same honest sensitivity as the photographs she has been taking since the 1930s — photographs of rural poverty in Mississippi , of back streets with laundry drying on a line , of proud school teachers , of plum-pickers with their tin buckets . |
| 4 | The representative collection of 20th century art which Lancaster University has been amassing since the 1960s and 1970s by purchase , gifts and bequests , is to be housed in a worthy new purpose-built annex to the already existing and refurbished Peter Scott Gallery . |
| 5 | He has been plotting since his arrival in Scotland . |
| 6 | The Universal Component System application development environment has been shipping since March 1992 at $3,500 to $10,000 . |
| 7 | The 150MHz version has been shipping since September . |
| 8 | At the heart of System 10 will be a new version of the Sybase SQL Server , the core database server that the company has been shipping since 1987 , which is now out at around some 6,500 sites worldwide . |
| 9 | The Universal Component System application development environment has been shipping since March 1992 at $3,500 to $10,000 . |
| 10 | At the heart of System 10 sits the Sybase SQL Server 10 product , basically the core database server which the company has been shipping since 1987 , and now out at around 5,000 sites worldwide . |
| 11 | The 150MHz has been shipping since September . |
| 12 | At the heart of System 10 will be a new version of the Sybase SQL Server , the core database server which the company has been shipping since 1987 , and now out at around some 6,500 sites worldwide . |
| 13 | But I 'm happy with my decision to rest him because he has been competing since January , and Ever is an improving horse . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Kenny has been competing since the junior level and he has done so very successfully , ’ said Mr Sullivan . |
| 15 | Snodin provided an authority in central midfield that has been lacking since the departure of Peter Reid and Rideout said : ‘ Ian Snodin made the difference with a little bit of class . |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman might like to know that last year saw record levels of exports from this country and that our share of manufactured exports in world trade has been rising since 1984 . |
| 17 | Mr Roland ’ Tiny ’ Rowland , head of Lonrho , has been trying since 1977 to acquire House of Fraser , owner of Harrods in Knightsbridge , London , and of various other department stores throughout the land . |
| 18 | The mystique of the rapid has been building since day one , and now , at cocktail hour , Crystal assumes demonic proportions . |
| 19 | Like many consumed by a powerful love , he has been searching since not so much for a replacement as an alternative . |
| 20 | The Uruguayan Juan Carlos Onetti has been writing since the Thirties and so prefigures the magic realists , but his books are only now becoming known to English readers . |
| 21 | Though the Boston Compact on which other Compacts have been based was only signed formally in 1982 , it represents the culmination of a relationship between Boston schools and local industry that has been developing since the early 1970s . |
| 22 | The C & p approach has been developing since 1988 . |
| 23 | The CIA 's code of conduct , which has been operating since last April , is now an integral part of the association 's Responsible Care programme , to which all CIA member companies have now signed up . |
| 24 | The Service has been operating since 1987 , and began distance radio training straight away , followed in 1989 by print journalism . |
| 25 | It is hoped to achieve the 15% reduction in staffing by the employment of temporary staff as vacancies occur and this policy has been operating since 1 April 1992 . |
| 26 | Funding Silotank has been operating since last year , but was officially opened yesterday at a reception attended by representatives of the organisations which have supplied funding for the venture . |
| 27 | Computer buff Steven has been jobhunting since graduating from London 's Imperial College four years ago . |
| 28 | ‘ Stand-to ’ , and a steady drizzle has been falling since 3 a.m . |
| 29 | The catalogue raisonné which the German collector Dieter Blume has been compiling since the late 1970s has now reached its ninth volume , and has a general index listing well over 2000 unique sculptures , from Caro 's schoolboy efforts under the tutelage of Charles Wheeler , through his heavily modelled ‘ geometry of fear ’ period when he was Moore 's assistant , to the more distinctive Caro of the welded steel constructions which began in the 1960s . |
| 30 | The GHS has been running since 1972 and is a large-scale survey designed to meet the information needs of a variety of different government departments . |