Example sentences of "since it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LH-S bought media for Cussons ' Imperial Leather and Pearl soap brands since it absorbed Allen Brady & Marsh , Cussons ' agency of 20 years , last March . |
| 2 | The Nation ( Bangkok ) reported on Jan. 30 that " two leading Western narcotics experts based in Thailand " had commented that these claims seemed exaggerated and that the military government had been doing little to try to reduce opium production since it seized power in 1988 . |
| 3 | Since it enabled employers to replace the two-shift with a three-shift system in the mines , it produced little real improvement in miners ' living standards . |
| 4 | Such desensitisation is inhibited at 20°C , and this temperature was preferred for most experiments since it enabled effects of activation of protein kinase C to be assessed against a relatively stable control value . |
| 5 | Because of this characteristic , the design of the Panopticon was , as Foucault ( 1979 p 201 ) suggested , " a machinery that assures dissymmetry , disequilibrium , difference " since it enabled surveillance that could not be reciprocated . |
| 6 | STEVEN has followed the rise of the drug in the North East since it became part of the club scene in 1989 he says its popularity has soared since 1991 . |
| 7 | The result was a considerable achievement since it took place against a background of strong competition in mature markets and overcapacity in the European agricultural sector . |
| 8 | In fact , ERPS has lived in a small corner of the works property since it took delivery of ex-Southern Railway 30828 4-6-0 the Maunsell development of the Urie S15 Class from Barry in March 1981 . |
| 9 | Peaceful demonstrations by students and intellectuals during January constituted the first significant challenge to the ruling Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) since it took power in 1924 . |
| 10 | Since it acquired Tace Plc and Goring Kerr Plc in 1991 , it has focussed less and less on its former core defence activities due to the near collapse of the defence industry . |
| 11 | For this scene , Rob Bottin used the following : a false floor ; a three-section fibreglass model of his hand , able to be blown apart by compressed air , for safety ; a polyfoam right arm attached with velcro ; a full torso and head puppet , minus the right arm , but with an explosive charge , since it replaced Weller in shot , and with a mechanism for making it sit up . |
| 12 | The resulting document , the Bourdillon Report , proved at the time to be one of the most useful that had appeared about the bookstocks of British public libraries , since it contained studies of existing provision and a series of recommendations on acceptable standards for provision in the future . |
| 13 | This is why its share price has nearly quadrupled since it went public in March 1989 . |
| 14 | The chaotic transport situation did not harm it , since it had access to local raw materials and fuel . |
| 15 | The only place they did not appear to have penetrated was Wimbledon — which was perhaps as well , since it left Mr Malik as the sole source of information on the Malik family history . |
| 16 | Held , refusing the declarations , that a basic valuation prepared by an employee of a building society was an ‘ action taken by the society in relation to ’ the grant of a further advance within section 83(1) of the Act and since it constituted part of the society 's process of administration , such a valuation , if negligently prepared , could amount to maladministration within paragraph 1 ( d ) of Part III to Schedule 12 to the Act ; that , on the documentation used by the plaintiff societies , a house buyers ' valuation prepared by an employee created a contract between the society and the borrower , which if negligently prepared could amount to a breach of the society 's contractual obligation within paragraph 1 ( a ) of Part III to Schedule 12 ; that although the alleged want of due skill and care might relate to matters not affecting the society 's assessment of the adequacy of the security , the valuation was in reality a single process amounting to an action within section 83(1) ; and that , accordingly , the ombudsman had jurisdiction under the scheme set up under the Act to investigate and determine complaints arising out of basic valuations , house buyers ' valuations , and , since there was no relevant distinction in the nature of the contractual relationship , structural surveys by a society 's employee in the same circumstances ( post , pp. 145A–H , 150B — 151A , H — 152A ) . |
| 17 | The Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 , would have included in the present s14(2) of SGA 1979 and its equivalent provisions under SOGIT 1973 ( as substituted by Sched 4 to CCA 1974 ) and the SGSA 1982 , the following provision which is worth setting out in full since it received Government approval and is likely to be re-introduced in the near future : ( 2A ) For the purposes of this Act , goods are of satisfactory quality if they meet the standard that a reasonable person would regard as satisfactory , taking account of any description of the goods , the price ( if relevant ) and all the other relevant circumstances . |
| 18 | McLeish found himself receiving this with reluctance and wondered why , since it made sense . |
| 19 | The Social Attitudes Survey can shine some light on this relationship , since it collected information on respondents ' experience of unemployment in the past five years , as well as the respondent 's current economic status . |
| 20 | Additionally the seizure had a psychological importance , since it offered opportunities for gain to many of Edward 's subjects who subsequently acquired a vested interest in the estates and therefore in prolonging the war or , at least , concluding it in triumph . |
| 21 | National insurance was , as Lloyd George recognized , a most convenient device for a government short of revenue since it drew finance from workers and employers without the politically unpopular necessity to increase income tax . |
| 22 | Commercialism clearly created major tensions in industrial relations in the public enterprises , since it involved cost cutting , the search for greater efficiency and productivity and in some instances an attack on the very idea of public enterprise . |
| 23 | With his law of primitive socialist accumulation Preobrazhensky saw it essentially as being conditions which were imposed upon the Soviet economy ; either the state sector will grow or it will succumb to the private sector , but the ‘ law ’ itself is only manifested by a series of conditions which were conscious acts upon the part of the Soviet state , since it involved plans and planning . |
| 24 | The Lower Exchequer , also called the Exchequer of Receipt — misleadingly so , since it paid money out as well — took in revenue from royal collectors and handed over receipts in the form of tallies , which could then be presented in the Upper Exchequer at the audit . |
| 25 | This political sea change coincided with the most dramatic incident to have occurred on the Hinkley Point site since it started operation . |
| 26 | In fact , any attempt by the press to act as a free oppositional/ adversarial press was itself likely to generate some form of criticism since it confronted governments with powerful adversaries , a situation which governments ( and Parliaments ) did not , and still do not , appear willing to tolerate . |
| 27 | Meeting in the southern Peruvian port of Ilo , President Jaime Paz Zamora signed an agreement with his Peruvian counterpart , Alberto Fujimori , on Jan. 24 , which would grant Bolivia , landlocked since it lost territory to Chile in the 1879 War of the Pacific , access to the Pacific Ocean . |
| 28 | Yet it makes the right more united , on paper , than at any time since it lost office three years ago . |
| 29 | Kuwait had been wary of Iraqi territorial ambitions ever since it gained independence from the UK in 1961 . |
| 30 | Sterling Software Inc has been very quiet since it bought Informatics , but yesterday the Dallas firm agreed to buy Net/Master owner Systems Center Inc , formerly VM Software , Reston , Virginia for $185m in shares . |