Example sentences of "since their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since their overwhelming vote for independence in a 1991 referendum , the Ukrainians have been trying to choose the West . |
| 2 | Nguyen Manh Cam was the highest-ranking Vietnamese official to visit China since their 1979 border war , which followed Vietnam 's invasion of Cambodia in 1978 . |
| 3 | Corticosteroids would not usually be prescribed for people with Aids , since their immune response is already suppressed , but recent reports suggest they can reduce the inflammatory process associated with PCP . |
| 4 | Since their political independence most LDCs have tried to develop local manufacturing industries and diversify their exports in order to achieve some degree of economic independence from former colonial powers . |
| 5 | 25TH OF May are enough to make the most rabid Trot of a pop fan feel like an enemy of the people worthy of a vicious kneecapping , since their political stance is laudable to the n th degree in such grim times as these . |
| 6 | Since their lavish £200,000 wedding 14 months ago , they have rarely been out of the headlines — but for all the wrong reasons . |
| 7 | The snail genes are not happy to pay that cost , since their long-term future depends upon the snail reproducing . |
| 8 | Just over a year since their financial crisis following cut-backs at Brent Council , the Oxford Kilburn club 's target of increased financial aid of £18,000 has been ‘ handsomely exceeded ’ during the year . |
| 9 | but since their small ad |
| 10 | A shame since their combined votes would have toppled the eventual winner , Conservative Simon Watson . |
| 11 | Since their receptive fields are scattered all over the visual field the rabbit 's brain is kept well-informed about movements all around it . |
| 12 | Secondly , they were treating babies as not yet formed adults since their nervous system did not yet contain all the adult structures which they imagined , without any evidence , would be necessary before one could have an unpleasant emotional experience . |
| 13 | Because they retain their leg-like character and since their positional value is changed from proximal to distal , toes form . |
| 14 | Many , perhaps most , of these objects are seen now as ‘ works of art ’ , in one sense justly , because of their fine workmanship , but in another sense misleadingly , since their primary function , especially in this area of reproduction and deliberate circulation , was evidently religious or ideological . |
| 15 | On the one hand , the supporters need to learn how not to collude with any counterproductive dynamics of the institution they are trying to serve ( such as the expectation of direct advice , collusion with which would further heighten the expert image of the ‘ deskilling ’ specialist come to deliver solutions ) ; on the other hand , since their primary task is augmenting the teachers ' own skills , they must be able to cope with attributed evasion of responsibility , with not knowing their job , with letting people down . |
| 16 | The latter are considered in the section on Freshwater Habitats , since their ornithological interest does not arise primarily from their geographical proximity to the coast . |
| 17 | It could be asked if Mary Leapor , Henry Jones , James Eyre Weeks , Joseph Lewis , and George Smith Green do not constitute a third wave since their first works appeared around 1750 . |
| 18 | Diana had been in love with Prince Charles for several years , since their first meeting when she was a sixteen-year-old home from school for half-term and he was her elder sister 's boyfriend . |
| 19 | How the girl had changed since their first meeting on the ship ! |
| 20 | She had been too aware of him since their first meeting and he knew it . |
| 21 | The flame that had been burning inside her since their first kiss burst suddenly into flame . |
| 22 | Mrs Banham and her husband Andy , a roof tiler , considered going private , but that would cost more than £1,250 , and since their other son , one-year-old Ross , needs the same operation they really can not afford it . |
| 23 | In the early days of the ‘ curriculum revolution ’ , when our enthusiasm was matched only by our arrogance , many curriculum workers in Europe , America and Africa seemed to take for granted that , since their new ideas were such very good ones , they would be widely and rapidly accepted by schools . |
| 24 | A further 11 are listed as serving soldiers or seamen ( some of the other bridegrooms were in the services at the time of marriage , but since their civilian occupations were also recorded they have been classified differently ) . |
| 25 | Since their prime purpose was to stable horses , and perhaps to accommodate their grooms ( though this could have been done in hay lofts at first-floor level ) , it is instructive to consider the space needs . |
| 26 | BRITAIN 'S most bitter boxing rivals bawled it out during a chance encounter in London yesterday when Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank came face-to-face for the first time in 25 months since their epic world title fight . |
| 27 | WOKING hero Mark Biggins has been dumped on the bread-line by the recession since their epic FA Cup run two years ago , but at Brighton todaySAT , non-League football 's most flamboyant midfielder will be back in the giant-killing business . |
| 28 | Since their traditional migration routes lay in areas which came under Russian influence fairly early ( Tornsk , Kuznetsk and Tara districts ) , they established economic , political and cultural contacts with them in the seventeenth century . |
| 29 | The Life of Johnson makes plain how Boswell had been staking out the ground since their early acquaintance , making notes immediately after each meeting of what he himself was eventually to ‘ consider the peculiar value ’ of the Life , ‘ that is , the quantity it contains of Johnson 's conversation ’ . |
| 30 | This technique was originated by the Gestalt school , and since their early work experimental psychologists have amassed a great deal of information about which parameters influence the occurrence of apparent motion . |