Example sentences of "since [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHe 's been ready for this so-called ‘ work ’ since about the fourth day . |
| 2 | It was an historic statute since for the first time it provided a statutory power for the banning of marches and processions of protest and demonstration . |
| 3 | The discovery of deaf tutors in a sign language class causes a review of the concept of ‘ the deaf ’ as disabled , since for the first time the student may be in a learning situation where the person whom he feels he should be helping is actually shown to be more competent than he is . |
| 4 | He was deliberately adapting his dramatic experience for use in poetic composition , since for the first time in his " pure " poetry he was addressing an audience . |
| 5 | The elections were a major test for Mahathir 's government , since for the first time the UMNO-dominated coalition faced a cohesive , multiracial coalition of opposition parties . |
| 6 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |
| 7 | Both were the direct results of the application of steam to transport , since for the first time in history this made possible regular and safe journeys for large numbers of people and luggage over any kind of terrain and water . |
| 8 | Noel 's colleagues all wish him well and the very best of health in his retirement , which fortunately is only partial since for the next few years he remains with us as Research Professor in German . |
| 9 | Yet , she is running the slimmest Cabinet machine since before the Second World War . |
| 10 | A feature of most high density areas is that there has been a long-term decline in population and density since before the Second World War ( Craig 1986 ) . |
| 11 | There has been a tradition of networking in Japan since before the Second World War . |
| 12 | One of the accused , 67 year-old Jabulelwe Majolo , has lived in the Durban area since before the Second World War . |
| 13 | Local elections held on May 27 were Poland 's first completely free multiparty elections since before the Second World War ( in the parliamentary elections of June 1989 there had been an agreed distribution of seats in the Sejm ( the lower house of the National Assembly ) among the former ruling parties and opposition or independent candidates — see pp. 36722-24 , and some opposition groups had been denied registration to compete as parties ) . |
| 14 | The first round of the Serbian local , parliamentary and presidential elections was held on Nov. 10 and 12 , 1989 , the first direct secret ballot in Serbia since before the Second World War . |
| 15 | Mrs Belgrove , a 32-year-old agricultural graduate , started by hacking down trees and giant weeds , under which were plants such as sedum and aquilegia which had been hidden since before the First World War . |
| 16 | He says he 's never seen anything like it ; he reckons some of the stuff must have been here since before the First World War . |
| 17 | Since in the last decades of the twentieth century all valuations are in question , let us start by imagining a manner of life in which I do without them altogether . |
| 18 | But this autonomy for stage agencies is relative , since in the last instance the requirements of capitalism as an economic system will always prevail over any contradictory state policies , even supposing that these should reach the point of being explicitly formulated . |
| 19 | Since in the last resort everything has to be achieved by people , the first thing we have to consider is the sort of environment in which people can give of their best . |