Example sentences of "since it [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being two yards long is not an immediately perceivable attribute of a rat 's tail since it requires a previous act of measuring in order to be known . |
| 2 | This is a case of proxy decision making , since it authorizes a named person to make treatment decisions on the patient 's behalf , once the patient is adjudged incompetent . |
| 3 | Last year the Group cut its dividend for the first time since it became a quoted company in 1970 , but this year analysts expect the dividend to be held at last year 's figure , with Pilkington digging into reserves in order to fend off the resulting loss of confidence . |
| 4 | For the moment at least , it puts an end to the most serious political crisis in Russia since it became a sovereign state . |
| 5 | Furthermore , ever since it became an independent department it has wanted to stop being merely a postman between the Treasury and the recipients of funds , and aspires instead to set the policy framework . |
| 6 | Since it takes a certain time to reach its working temperature and cool down again , it would not be able to follow the changes satisfactorily . |
| 7 | Broderick has faced more of a problem , since it seemed a few years back that he had stopped ageing . |
| 8 | Silverstone 's demise would be mourned by everyone in Formula One , since it offers a unique challenge as the fastest track in the world , with drivers lapping at over 150 miles per hour . |
| 9 | The ideological claim was that the Soviet Union was , by definition , more advanced since it had a deeper experience of socialism , but that of course is nonsense . |
| 10 | The Uruguayan agreement consisted of a barter arrangement ( Soviet oil for Uruguayan wool ) , which suited Montevideo since it had a large surplus of wool and a shortage of foreign exchange . |
| 11 | The publication of the China White Paper in August 1949 worried Rhee , since it connoted a virtual collapse of American support for Chiang Kai-shek and the possibility of the United States preparing to recognise Communist China . |
| 12 | It is this confidence that is provided by Directory Integrity Check , since it allows a complete comparison to be made between the files in a directory/directory structure and their corresponding LIFESPAN modules . |
| 13 | But it is also an inflated price since it represents a healthy premium for control of the last really big established national player in the US cellular market . |
| 14 | In the UK the AIB keep a very tight control over any CVR read-out since it represents a considerable intrusion on the privacy of the flight crew and , while they insist on using it whenever there is an accident , only the relevant extracts are made known to the public and the official reports contain transcriptions of only those sections which are necessary for a full understanding of the circumstances of the accident . |
| 15 | I have included this somewhat lengthy account of the inception of the AEP since it does a good deal to explain some of the subsequent strengths and weaknesses of these highly influential programmes . |
| 16 | But I would make clear to Mr if he looks at the minutes of the budget review sub-committee , that the suggestion of the director of property services wastes his time fully exploring all options for the disposal of all or any part of the County Farms estate , for which he probably asks for a large amount of money , since it involves an enormous amount of wasted time , is not been agreed , it 's a non-delegated item , it was a recommendation of this committee which has not been moved at this committee , and it was a most unfortunate and woolly form of words . |
| 17 | on balance credit is beneficial , since it makes a useful contribution to the living standards and the economic and social well-being of the majority of British people . |
| 18 | Since it involved a fresh assessment of wealth it encountered some hostility . |
| 19 | Terry Lovell 's Pictures of Reality was a seminal text in this respect , since it presented a scrupulous critique of the semiotic and psychoanalytical preoccupations of film theory even before they came into full swing in feminism . |
| 20 | It is a concession of importance , since it indicates a greater convergence between the male and female work pattern than is usually suggested . |
| 21 | How useful including this software is debatable since it has a limited range of file transfer protocols . |
| 22 | The suggested meeting place is Knighton at 10:11 , since it has a special day return fare , but members may wish to catch the train at their nearest station . |
| 23 | This chest also can not have the sides broken open , since it has a full iron inlay — the only way to force it is to crowbar the lid open . |
| 24 | Kelvin 's scale of temperature , the only true ratio scale of temperature since it has a non-arbitrary zero point , is not simply a mathematically more powerful scale or one that is invariably more useful , as far as the latter is concerned quite the contrary , but it is one that " incorporates a profound understanding of how a certain class of phenomenon works " . |
| 25 | The depth of these deposits varies from less than 10 m to more than 200 m and the major drainage system is that of the Huanghe River , which is also known as the Yellow River since it carries a huge volume of yellow silt from the Loess plateau into the Yellow Sea . |
| 26 | The point serves as a corrective to behaviourist tendencies in general , and therefore to Behaviouralism in International Relations , since it undermines a main reason for holding that science must stick to observable behaviour . |
| 27 | The English Association should also be mentioned here since it showed a considerable overlap of personnel and policies with many of these other initiatives ( formal and informal ) , having particularly close affinities with the National Home Reading Union , the Dictionary of National Biography , and the National Trust , and occupying an interesting position of relative autonomy from the state Board of Education . |
| 28 | In a Plinian eruption , it 's usually impossible to pin down the site of the vent exactly , since it stands a high chance of being obliterated or destroyed by the eruption itself . |