Example sentences of "since it [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was critical , since it took the new tax from being a hybrid to being a loosely-disguised property tax . |
| 2 | It was a vigorous gesture , but also a risky one , since it emphasized the yawning gulf between the traditional pattern of autonomous free institutions within a plural culture and the new centralizing regime . |
| 3 | He said that he was willing to modify parts of the Driglam Namzha programme and admitted that the current mode of representation in the Tsogdu was imperfect since it gave the Nepalese-dominated districts in the south only 16 seats out of a total of 151 . |
| 4 | The secretary-managership of Leeds City had become vacant on the retirement of Scott Walford at the end of the club 's most disastrous season since it entered the Second Division eight years before , and the public looked with keen interest to see what effect the new man 's ‘ shrewd judgement and tactful management ’ ( Yorkshire Post ) would have . |
| 5 | She was said to mix well , a social attribute particularly esteemed in one of such high birth and breeding since it implied the correct unconsciousness of her status . |
| 6 | The United States had taken the initiative in this development , since it appeared the only means by which the Americans could disengage gradually from Korea with some hope that the UN could produce a solution that would sustain south Korea for at least a limited period . |