Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] since [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gilbey , who has been her greatest emotional support since the collapse of her marriage to Prince Charles , broke the news himself in a telephone call to Kensington Palace . |
| 2 | On the other hand it is difficult to argue that the Revolution resolved the major issues that had been sources of political tension since the Restoration , and it certainly did not restore the political consensus that had eluded the nation in 1660 . |
| 3 | The UK challenged the validity of the Directive in the European Court , but the Court ruled that majority voting was acceptable in this case since the Treaty gives precedence to provisions of a specific nature ( in this case , articles on the Common Agricultural Policy ) over general provisions relating to establishment of the Common Market ( Article 100 ) . |
| 4 | Perhaps the most important commercial change since the invention of incorporation itself has been the rise of groups of companies with interlinking control and ownership . |
| 5 | In all areas the sustained prosperity of British agriculture since the war has encouraged farmers to expand their output by taking marginal areas of land into cultivation . |
| 6 | Prosecutors rarely adopt this course since the addition of the extra charge gives the defendant the choice of jury trial . |
| 7 | The structure of English Conservatism since the Restoration has the outward appearance of a ‘ central text ’ for an undergraduate special subject in British Conservatism , in that the book is split into six conceptual and period sections , each of which contains an interpretative essay followed by extracts from contemporary sources . |
| 8 | Secretion of bile is not usually considered to be of much importance in this response since the gall bladder procides a mechanism for rapid delivery of bile into the duodenum at mealtime . |
| 9 | A large segment of British industry since the war has been publicly owned . |
| 10 | So Taylor 's announcement that he 's to put his tactical paperwork in the office shredder and hand over the complete accounts ledger to Gascoigne is the most encouraging statement for English football since the surgeon passed Gazza 's knee A1 . |
| 11 | Roughly a bus-width , judging by their arrival at the Queen 's Medical Centre , Nottingham , for their first joint public engagement since the furore over their future . |
| 12 | The caste system is an extreme example of social closure since the exclusion of outsiders from the status group is so complete . |
| 13 | From the presence of enlarged joints and marine gastropods on these shelves , he was prepared to attribute them to marine action since the sea has stood at its present level . |
| 14 | It represents the first extinction of a British mammal since the wolf was hunted out in the mid-18th century . |
| 15 | Fieldwork is a major element of this degree since the material for study is gained by survey and excavation . |
| 16 | A lot might seem to hang upon this question since the term is highly emotive — suffering is an unpleasant experience , to be avoided at all costs . |
| 17 | One building beneath the Cathedral apparently contained an apse with a floor of opus signinum , suggesting perhaps the site of a bath-house hypocaust since the floor was covered by a thick deposit of ash . |
| 18 | The Duchess of York weeps at her first public appearance since the publication of the topless photographs . |
| 19 | It is better than tripods for a really wet crop since the crop may be put up the day it is cut even in rainy weather . |
| 20 | These suspicions have some basis since the network of security relationships that were developing under ASEAN auspices increasingly amounted to a low-profile military association in effect , if not in name . |
| 21 | Marlin had been as solicitous as an erring husband since the attack , calling her from his office every hour or so , and several times suggesting that she might want to talk with an analyst , or at very least with one of his many friends who 'd been assaulted or mugged on the streets of Manhattan . |
| 22 | It is difficult to imagine that vertical sea cliffs 60 m ( 200 ft ) high , such as those at Hartland Point in Devon , have been cut entirely in the short Post-glacial period since the sea rose to its present level . |
| 23 | The point is of some importance since a number of rules of procedure are growing to be applicable to Cabinet Committees and we ought to know where there is a real , useful distinction or whether it is merely the pragmatical difference that some are serviced by the Cabinet Office and some are not . |
| 24 | No major Western head of government had had such direct contact with an Iraqi leader since the crisis began on Aug. 2 . |
| 25 | Gerry said : ‘ Victory over Tipperary was an outstanding reward for everyone involved with this team since the season began . |
| 26 | Gerry said : ‘ Victory over Tipperary was an outstanding reward for everyone involved with this team since the season began . |
| 27 | This challenge needs to be noted at this juncture since the difference of emphasis between Zhdanov , Radek and Stetsky on the one hand , and Bukharin on the other , reflects a fundamental tension in Nizan 's own literary theory and practice . |
| 28 | It 's been hailed as the biggest change in social welfare since the birth of the National Health Service . |
| 29 | And when it comes to content , the key public commission since the war must be the eight New Testament inscriptions in Basil Spence 's Coventry Cathedral . |
| 30 | Gwrych Castle was offered rent-free by Lord Dundonald — who also made a grant towards rates and taxes and paid half the cost of repairs — a necessarily generous offer since the castle had been uninhabited for over fifteen years . |