Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adj] [noun] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was almost a physical pain and for a moment he felt shocked because it had been many years since the agony of losing Gerda . |
| 2 | He knew the most trusted adviser of the late Tsar Peter had been a Scotsman , but there had been four Tsars since then , and there was a Tsarina , Elizabeth , on the throne , or so he had been told in Vilna . |
| 3 | ‘ She and Phillip had been good friends since the 40s . |
| 4 | Poati-Souchalaty , who had been Prime Minister since August 1989 , also resigned from the ruling Parti congolais du travail ( PCT ) . |
| 5 | Lini , 48 , had been Prime Minister since independence in 1980 . |
| 6 | The most politically significant event in the year to mid-1991 was the replacement in November 1990 of Margaret Thatcher , who had been Prime Minister since 1979 and leader of the Conservative Party since 1975 by John Major [ see pp. 37839-40 ] . |
| 7 | Zubi , who had been Prime Minister since 1987 [ see pp. 36178-79 ] , was reported to have selected his new Cabinet after consultations with the leaderships of the five parties ( including the Ba'ath Party ) which were components of the National Progressive Front . |
| 8 | Azzedine Laraki , who had been Prime Minister since 1986 , was replaced by Karim Lamrani , 72 , an economist with a background in business who had previously been Prime Minister in 1971 and 1983 . |
| 9 | But there had been strange times since then , and they 'd put Gentle in an apter mood for this study . |
| 10 | Two appointments were made : Molly Sheavyn , who became Further Education and Youth Officer " , and Mark Frame , by then the Rev Mark Frame , who had been Honorary Secretary since 1951 . |
| 11 | Lothar was happy ; but what what was to become of Bernard , Louis the Pious 's 19-year-old nephew , who had been ruling Italy since his father 's death in 810 ? |
| 12 | Jordan : led by Kamel Abu Jaber , who had been Foreign Minister since October . |
| 13 | Indeed little of what had been unchallengeable orthodoxy since the 1920s remained untouched . |