Example sentences of "since [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well again since the war and er probably since about the sixties , the garden centres have taken over a lot on that . |
| 2 | SHe 's been ready for this so-called ‘ work ’ since about the fourth day . |
| 3 | I had always admired him , ever since as a small boy I had seen him in his State robes in India . |
| 4 | If schools were obliged to take in this maximum number , they might opt out , since as a grant-maintained school their numbers would be fixed not by the 1979 limit , but by the article of government of that particular school . |
| 5 | However a rough estimate of optimum switching angle can be obtained if the three torque/speed characteristics are approximated by constant torques , effective up to the maximum speed for each angle : The time taken and number of steps executed during acceleration to the maximum speed may be calculated , since for a constant torque , For constant accelerating torque the instantaneous velocity is proportional to time and therefore the distance travelled during acceleration is simply : so for each switching angle the acceleration time and distance can be found : The time taken to travel a total distance of 60 steps can be calculated for each switching angle , e.g. if the switching angle is 6 degrees the system executes the first 25 steps in 94.3 ms and the remaining steps at a constant speed of 540 steps per second : The time taken to decelerate has been neglected in this calculation because the retarding torque ( motor braking torque + load torque ) is , in all three cases , much larger than the accelerating torque ( motor accelerating torque - load torque ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So , since for the present Neil preferred to lie low and find out just what Ewen was up to , I could not tell Mrs McDougall of Ewen 's night-time visit . |
| 13 | And since for the successful confection and storage of many , although not all , potted meats and fish , clarified butter is a necessary adjunct , it seems only fair to warn readers that the process does involve a little bother , although a trifling one compared to the services rendered by a supply of this highly satisfactory sealing , mixing , and incidentally , frying ingredient . |
| 14 | The British still tend to treat him with a faintly hostile embarrassment : as well they might , since for the past four years , his principal message has been condemnation of their duplicity in , as he sees it , backing away from promises to introduce democratic government by 1997 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Such widespread ignorance is not difficult to explain , since during the middle decades of the sixteenth century there was an acute shortage of ministers to undertake the uphill task of disseminating the new and intellectually demanding beliefs . |
| 17 | J. R. Lowerson has shown that Brackley was an exception in the area , since of the seventeen surrounding parishes , one had been enclosed in 1634 , and the rest between 1734 and 1808 . |
| 18 | But the recognition since of the tremendous value of historic buildings of all types , the successful conversion of buildings for new uses and a public determination that history will not repeat itself in terms of the demolition and desecration that was then taking place , have inspired us — and many local amenity societies , preservation trusts , action groups and individuals — to carry on campaigning . |
| 19 | This was by no means an accident , since throughout the 1970s a powerful body of media , political , and academic opinion had been constructed around the theme of how Britain was drifting into a ‘ violent society ’ , and how the basis of consent was being shifted by the pressures of immigration and the growth of multi-racial inner city areas . |
| 20 | Constant hum , people started from the first day and they 've been flowing through ever since with a high point at the weekend when they 've had more time to come up to London to have a look at things look at things . |
| 21 | Yet , she is running the slimmest Cabinet machine since before the Second World War . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | There has been a tradition of networking in Japan since before the Second World War . |
| 24 | One of the accused , 67 year-old Jabulelwe Majolo , has lived in the Durban area since before the Second World War . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The abiding influence , it appeared , was that of the venerable Austrian anti-statist , Friedrich von Hayek , a critic of encroaching government since before the 1945 election . |
| 30 | There were , of course , the inevitable forms to fill in and letters of condolence to answer , but I realized that I had not for a moment , since before the previous Christmas , given a thought to the prospect of life for one . |