Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] [noun] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the names of statutes that have received the royal assent since the last supplement of Statutes in Force and Halsbury , consult the current numbers of Current Law . |
| 2 | I had been doing my best to mime the odd prayer since my dad died , but I had a feeling she saw through me . |
| 3 | But the scale of the tragedy exposed by Michael Buerk and his BBC camera crew , and the response it provoked in the no-bullshit , energetic , passionately caring rock musician Bob Geldof meant that old-world attitudes towards the plight of helpless peoples have been given the biggest jolt since the anti-slavery campaigns of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | It is difficult to compare the perceptions of Labour and Conservative identifiers who read the same paper since the numbers in our sample who read any one paper were low and tended to be drawn predominantly from one party or another . |
| 5 | They became the first club since the war to win the Cup and the League , and were the first to win the League on goal average . |
| 6 | The hostility which this aroused , as well as his role as royal guardian of London , resulted in his death at the hands of a furious mob and he thus became the first bishop since Becket to be murdered . |
| 7 | It was claimed that closure would affect the local atmosphere since the school acted as a focus of activity yet there was little mention of any economic loss and no fear of any demographic effects . |
| 8 | Cecil has not won the 2,000 Guineas since Wollow scored in 1976 , but Pursuit of Love is a genuine contender and it will take a convincing performance from either Forest Tiger or Dr Devious in today 's Craven Stakes to displace him at the head of Ladbrokes ' market — and other firms could well follow suit . |
| 9 | Dealers do not need the same protection since they know the importance of checking to see whether the seller is the owner of the car . |
| 10 | Howard is still a little jealous of his authority , has n't yet quite grasped the new set-up since my Ministry was established . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , her life 's achievements in floral anatomy are considered the greatest effort since the early pioneering work sixty years previously , and her papers continue to be heavily cited . |
| 12 | Moslem reports of a fierce Serb assault on Cerska have dominated the Bosnian war since the settlement was made the target of Monday 's maiden aid airdrops to eastern Bosnia by the United States . |
| 13 | The keen youngsters had not won a single game since the season started in September . |
| 14 | He told me this week : ‘ It 's the first time City of Derry have won a green pennant since the club was founded in 1912 . ’ |
| 15 | The Village Leagues posed a serious threat since they affected many West Bank villages . |
| 16 | Wintec and Thorowgood saddles have come a long way since early designs and Thorowgood also make wipe-clean bridles that look smart enough for most occasions . |
| 17 | Microwave ovens have come a long way since they first appeared in our kitchens about 20 years ago , but how do you know which type will suit your style of cooking ? |
| 18 | Mota had already come a long way since her schooldays when she ran away with the city , area and national cross-country championships . |
| 19 | But the industrial robot has come a long way since the early sixties when Joe Engelberger set up Unimation , the world 's first industrial robot making company . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've come a long way since the U.2 fiasco . ’ |
| 21 | Rufus had come a long way since the Goblander days and the car he got into to drive himself to the hospital he attended two mornings a week was a Mercedes , not yet a year old . |
| 22 | He has come a long way since he worked as a production runner with James Wong Howe and Martin Ritt in a coal-mining village in Pennsylvania . |
| 23 | Even if men 's fashion has come a long way since the Sixties , the overwhelming inspiration , Cerruti concedes , is still the archetypal English businessman 's suit . |
| 24 | We have certainly come a long way since Aristotle and Ptolemy , when we thought that the earth was the centre of the universe ! |
| 25 | Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One . |
| 26 | Well , we 've certainly come a long way since Pliny 's day . |
| 27 | Of course photographic techniques HAVE come a long way since Ponting 's day . |
| 28 | The industry has come a long way since the day 's of men selling cornets from the back of bicycles . |
| 29 | THE greeting cards , gift wrap and stationery people T&A Thompson Cards have come a long way since it all began for them in a garage about 15 years ago — they have just opened a superb new outlet in the Ravenhill Business Park . |
| 30 | We 've come a long way since a 1953 bride-to-be wrote a despairing plea to a weekly magazine for someone to offer a more varied menu than cold ham , salad and trifle for her wedding breakfast . |