Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] since [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can see no merit in repeating here the reasons he gave for that decision since he pronounced his findings in that case in public , pursuant to rule 11(2) of the Hearings before the Visitors Rules 1991 , and the reasons were complex . |
| 2 | The database concept is ideally suited to professional activities since it relies on an assumption that an ‘ architecture ’ of information storage and retrieval will follow predetermined ( albeit flexible ) routes . |
| 3 | Yet unemployment undoubtedly helped to speed up the Liberal decline and Labour rise since it highlighted the rigidity of the immediate post-war Liberal Party which was clearly unwilling to adapt its policies and ideas on free trade to the new demands of the age . |
| 4 | 1.15 In Gregory 's case the plaintiff , who was injured in a way that could have been avoided by wearing a seat belt , suffered a 40 per cent total reduction since he was also travelling as a passenger in a car knowing that it had defective brakes . |
| 5 | Marshall has made an almost mapped-out rise since he began playing the game at the age of eight at his father 's club at Kegworth . |
| 6 | In all of this , the Great Reform Act , 1832 stands as some kind of landmark development in the history of constitutional theory and political practice since it broke the essentials of the eighteenth-century constitution and also entrenched a new principle of governmental organisation . |
| 7 | For instance ‘ Turkish baths ’ properly should be described as Islamic baths since they have no special link with Turkey . |
| 8 | It was their greatest result since they beat England 2-1 here nine years ago . |
| 9 | These interact in a complex fashion : indeed certain features of the system , for example bifurcation , can not be neatly placed on one side or the other of the ( ultimately artificial ) material/ideological divide since they are both ideologies and material practices at the same time . |
| 10 | However , the vendors are likely to resist giving extensive warranties since it is the managers , not they , who have been involved in the day-to-day running of the company . |
| 11 | When , later , I joined the Civil Service , I found it hard to follow that rule since I was constantly required to lie . |
| 12 | Recitatives merely reinforce the prevailing tonality since they almost always begin and end in its tonic . |
| 13 | Compulsory retirement , PEP considered , would be a political impossibility since it would interfere with individual liberty , not to speak of raising the anomaly of those in occupations with no statutory upper age-limit , such as judges . |
| 14 | It had been eleven months since they had parted . |
| 15 | It had been eleven months since he 'd seen or spoken to Chester , but he was greeted as effusively as ever , and ushered in . |
| 16 | I have kept the books of this branch since I retired from banking , five years ago . ’ |
| 17 | Thirty-six hours since he had been roused . |
| 18 | It was only thirty-six hours since she 'd been washed up on the island like a piece of flotsam , she reminded herself ; early days to start bewailing her fate . |
| 19 | The two of them told me that no formalities were required , that I would simply be received in a small private room , and that there would even be the possibility that I would be given a glass of sherry — which presented some difficulty since I am teetotal . |
| 20 | The Centre d'art contemporain has led an itinerant existence since it was founded in 1974 by Adelina von Fürstenberg , now director of Le Magasin , Grenoble 's contemporary art centre . |
| 21 | There are no test results for this case since it is not easy to force its occurrence . |
| 22 | In doing so , he overlooks the enormous improvements in English cuisine since we forged closer ties with Europe . |
| 23 | Well I have made some notes since you j can I just walk down and get them I want this to happen I made some notes , here . |
| 24 | Clearly , the class reader so defined , claims a central role in much English teaching since it frequently provides a nucleus of activity through which the needs of pupils — both girls and boys — are addressed . |
| 25 | ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known . |
| 26 | I was unable to use the public toilets since I was told I was in the wrong one whichever I went to . |
| 27 | It was less than seventy-two hours since he had heard of the finding of Riddle 's clothes , but it seemed much longer . |
| 28 | That morning Wycliffe had heard of the Glynn family for the first time and in the few hours since he had learned something about them ; about Gerald , Gina and Barry , about Christine and Aunt Sara , and about the uncles , Alfred and Maurice . |
| 29 | In the few hours since she had brought the house down she had been interviewed by three tabloids , Sky Television and by Tony Howard for ‘ Newsnight ’ . |
| 30 | BELFAST jockey Pat McWilliams is beginning to settle down and ride a few winners since he returned from England before Christmas facing an uncertain future . |