Example sentences of "since it [vb past] a [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 | Broderick has faced more of a problem , since it seemed a few years back that he had stopped ageing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Since it involved a fresh assessment of wealth it encountered some hostility . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |