Example sentences of "has be since " in BNC.

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1 In Ivory Coast the transfer of ownership has been essentially from the foreign private investor to the local private investor : government remains the owner of 50 per cent of corporate capital ( as it has been since the 1960s ) and the foreign investors ' share has been reduced to 30 per cent , with the local private sector taking the remainder .
2 A pink winter cherry Prunus subhirtella autumnalis rosea , which was a birthday present years ago , is still flowering , as it has been since November .
3 ‘ Yes , New Zealand is now a dominion too , and has been since September .
4 And if any of his fans still needed convincing , they had only to look into the happy , laughing face of his adoring wife Jean , at his side as she has been since his horrific car accident nearly three months ago .
5 And a lot of psychological research is devoted , as it has been since the 1950s , to disproving unfounded suppositions of black subjects ' inferiority in these areas .
6 Today this is grazing land for sheep , as most of the surrounding area has been since the founding of the abbey .
7 However , with all these reservations and qualifications noted there is a city called Tyneside and in 1989 North Shields is part of it as it always has been and Cramlington is as it has been since the early 1970s .
8 Such population growth as there has been since then comes from a natural internally generated increase and there has been significant out-migration .
9 Romero is a provincial film-maker by choice and has been since the 1960s , long before this was common — if indeed it is even now , despite the growth of independent film-making and its important contribution to the artistically enfeebled Hollywood mainstream .
10 The Welsh Office Education Department is responsible ( and has been since 1970 ) for schools and further and higher education in Wales , but not universities or the qualifications , probation , pay , superannuation or misconduct of teachers , which remain the responsibility of the DES .
11 To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the cumulative total of all taxes from North sea oil has been since 1979 in 1991-92 prices .
12 Tennyson then goes onto portray a wonderful quality of desolation and despair in a wasteland where no one has been since the beginning of the world .
13 For the present , then , the vital need is to do everything possible to secure a safe retirement of XH558 , where she will be cared for as well as she has been since becoming the VDF display aircraft .
14 In a few moments I 'd like to tell you briefly about the trading background to the figures and to give you an indication of how business has been since the period ended and particularly since our important sale started on Boxing Day .
15 It 's not clear where the Lagonda has been since Tony last owned it .
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