Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [noun sg] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alternative ( and now much more common ) free format mode requires separators such as a space or a comma to appear between items of data ; this slows down data entry for a skilled keypuncher but is probably preferable for the non-expert since problems of field misalignment can not occur . |
| 2 | The effects of rabies are little known in Britain , that 's because we 've been virtually free of the disease since quarantine regulations were introduced in nineteen twenty two . |
| 3 | Emotions have been running high in the community since James 's body was found on a railway embankment . |
| 4 | On the face of it this is unlikely to be acceptable to the vendor since in effect it gives an option to purchase , though it may be more acceptable if the period allowed for preparing the report is short . |
| 5 | Of course , if the person making the observation is unaware of the illegitimate status of the person to whom he is addressing his remarks , he would not be guilty of the offence since he would lack mens rea . |
| 6 | In practice the ideas of state and government tended to be determined by political criteria typical of the period since the era of great 18th-century revolutions , but the idea of ‘ people ’ and ‘ nation ’ largely by pre-political criteria which were helpful in the creation of the imagined and imaginary community . |
| 7 | Publicly-controlled since 1943 , and a loss-maker for much of the period since , it came as little surprise when , Chris Patten , a junior Northern Ireland minister , announced plans for privatisation in 1988 . |
| 8 | 1 For much of the period since the Second World War , mainstream political science praised parties and interest groups as enhancing of democracy in Britain and talked in terms of responsible party government and pluralist democratic theory . |
| 9 | For much of the period since the Second World War the responsible party model was at one with the informed consensus and " common-sense " as to the working of our system . |
| 10 | Mandru had been away on business for much of the time since Lucien had arrived , so performances had been few . |
| 11 | She kept wanting to cry , as she had with Stephen , as she had for so much of the time since Timothy Gedge had come into their lives . |
| 12 | However , Jolitz was apparently crucial to the project since none of BSDI 's principals , alias CSRG 's staffers , knew much about 386 Berkeley and could n't maintain it . |
| 13 | By contrast , many hardened black marketeers were likely to be untouched by the decree since they tended to move their rouble profits into property , gold or dollars . |
| 14 | He had been unpopular in the city since an inquiry in 1321 which led to the curbing of the city 's liberties ; the citizens had probably helped Mortimer to escape from the Tower , and Froissart , who was a Hainaulter himself and may have written on good authority , said that even before Isabella landed she had received secret assurances of support from them . |
| 15 | In late March reports described fighting in the Pietermaritzburg ( Natal ) townships as some of the worst in the region since clashes began three years previously [ see pp. 36069-70 ; 36911 ] between pro-ANC militants and supporters of the ( mainly Zulu ) Inkatha movement led by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've felt a lot more comfortable on the course since I started seeing him . |
| 17 | He regards Microsoft NT as good for the market since it will focus the market more on ‘ rightsizing ’ and permit competition at a technological level , where Novell is confident of its capabilities . |
| 18 | It took Robins 's total to 11 for the season since goal-shy United sold him for just £800,000 in the summer , and Robins said : ‘ I suppose I felt I had something to prove . |
| 19 | This speech was published in Pravda on 24 January under the title of ‘ Lenin 's Political Testament ’ , which must have rung some warning bells for many within the Party since Lenin 's actual political testament had not been published at that time . |
| 20 | It is slightly closer to the thylacine since both are marsupials , but the two have evolved their big carnivore design independently on different continents ; independently of each other and of the placental carnivores , the true cats and dogs of the Old World . |
| 21 | That these identifications are circular ( equality in Z being identified with the set of all pairs , ( a , b ) for which a and b are equal ! ) is unimportant at the moment since we are still informally trying to feel our way . |
| 22 | The only problem is that the Dutch have not really been very good at the game since Dr Euwe retired . |
| 23 | The resulting group territoriality is possible in the chimpanzee since the locomotory costs in maintaining it are sufficiently low . |
| 24 | Left : In the grounds of Shrewsbury School , the house has changed very little from the outside since it was built in the 1950s |
| 25 | Swings of up to 30% to Labour in the year since the county council contests were recorded in several local government by-elections , with the party registering a number of victories in the hitherto barren ground of rural South and East . |
| 26 | Though she had never admitted it to anyone , she disliked being alone in the office since Arabella had fallen to her death from the fire escape : and the feeling was always worse in the evening . |
| 27 | The rules of the referendum gave a vote to anyone who had been permanently resident in the republic since before Nov. 3 , 1989 . |
| 28 | Members of parliament are not , therefore , individually responsible to the electorate since they are members of a party team that is collectively and directly responsible to the electorate as a whole . |
| 29 | Now you 'll be familiar with the fact since we went through it in April that there has been a sharp jump in our known assets brought about by the sale of Elsivir and the fact that it had a very substantially written down value in our books , seventy five million pounds . |
| 30 | Rowntree 's estimated minimum income of 20s. 6d. for a family of two adults and three children was derived from urban prices and , Rowntree pointed out , food prices tended to be higher in the countryside since the towns were the centres of food distribution . |