Example sentences of "since it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For the moment at least , it puts an end to the most serious political crisis in Russia since it became a sovereign state . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This was critical , since it took the new tax from being a hybrid to being a loosely-disguised property tax . |
| 5 | Broderick has faced more of a problem , since it seemed a few years back that he had stopped ageing . |
| 6 | As a result , one of the DCs was submitted for assessment to this person ; the other DC was agreed immediately since it affected no other package . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Since it involved a fresh assessment of wealth it encountered some hostility . |
| 13 | However this body was experiencing some role ambiguity and since it possessed no formal power to ensure that its professional judgement was heeded , it tended to define its function as advisory rather than inspectorial . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |