Example sentences of "for the [adj] [noun] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Importing authorities , on the other hand , have complained that the cross-boundary flow adjustment does not fully compensate for the actual workload since , by using average costs , it does not fully cover the costs of treating high-cost cases . |
| 2 | My own preference has always been for the rough-coated variety since these can withstand weather and rough going very much better . |
| 3 | GERMANY 'S ruling and opposition parties , reeling from the largest electoral success for the far Right since the Second World War , called yesterday for urgent joint talks to prevent further haemorrhaging of their support . |
| 4 | The eternal flame went out yesterday for the second time since it was lit on July 26 last year . |
| 5 | And for the second time since she 'd first met him , he turned on his heel and left her , his blistering words still seeming to echo in the very air around her . |
| 6 | The absorption of trace metals from mg or µg oral doses is often used as a proxy for the physiological situation since only low levels of these elements are usually found in the diet . |
| 7 | Since then , for the thirteen years since Kapuscinski 's departure , things have gone badly for the Angolans , and they are still suffering terribly . |
| 8 | Thus during a visit to Moscow by the Malaysian Prime Minister , Datuk Hussein Onn , in September 1979 Kosygin expressed support for the ZOPFAN resolution since its implementation ‘ would establish a precondition for the widening of the process of détente over all the Asian continent ’ . |
| 9 | Presumably the working class were voting for the Labour Party since they saw it as their party and did not need to incentive of a party machine . |
| 10 | The indium-111 leukocyte technique is particularly suitable for the present study since it utilises the homing properties of neutrophils in response to specific chemoattractants . |
| 11 | In fact to judge the book as a whole in determining if it was obscene had generally been the practice in law for the hundred years since the Hicklin case . |
| 12 | However , the whole matter was another aspect of one of the storms in a set of teacups that accompanied the whole unhappy Profumo matter and has continued to do so for the many years since it was first raised . |
| 13 | For the first time since he became leader , he is in the position to set the political agenda . |
| 14 | As well as campaigning against embryo research , it plans to introduce an abortion amendment to the Bill , thereby forcing a free vote for the first time since abortion was legalised in 1967 . |
| 15 | MOTHERWELL climbed to the top of the Scottish Premier Division for the first time since League reconstruction 14 years ago with a 1-0 win over Rangers at Fir Park last night . |
| 16 | The new policy will drop , for the first time since its introduction in the early Eighties , a presumption in favour of house-building at the expense of other conservation considerations . |
| 17 | Now , for the first time since the early Seventies the left has no power to tether the leadership on anything significant . |
| 18 | For the first time since they began the surveys , Dun and Bradstreet report a negative outlook for the profits of retailers , which indicates a gloomy outlook for consumer spending in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 19 | 3 STEVE BULL scored twice as England finished their European Championship Under-21 qualifying campaign with a flourish in Jastrzebie Zdruj , but they are still likely to miss out on a quarter-final place for the first time since the competition began 13 years ago . |
| 20 | More immediately delightful , she saw Nelson Mandela , an intimate friend of her youth , for the first time since he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 . |
| 21 | For the first time since he was a professor at Cambridge , he began to hope , though with modesty , that he might be chosen for the work . |
| 22 | Bernie was speechless , for the first time since I 'd known him . |
| 23 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
| 24 | In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London . |
| 25 | Returning to Moscow at the age of 52 , for the first time since he left to live in London 26 years ago , Ashkenazy said : ‘ In my modest way , I thought I could endorse what 's happening in my country . ’ |
| 26 | Tens of thousands of East Berliners streamed to the West , unhindered for the first time since the Wall was put up 28 years ago . |
| 27 | For the first time since the survey was started six years ago , retailers , wholesalers and companies in the motor trade expect to cut investment in the coming year . |
| 28 | For the first time since the survey was started six years ago , retailers , wholesalers and companies in the motor trade expect to cut investment in the coming year . |
| 29 | The most tangible signs of this tendency to borrow more are highlighted in the Central Statistical Office 's Social Trends 1989 , which showed that household expenditure exceeded income in 1986 and 1987 for the first time since compilation of the information began . |
| 30 | The most tangible signs of this tendency to borrow more are highlighted in the Central Statistical Office 's Social Trends 1989 , which showed that household expenditure exceeded income in 1986 and 1987 for the first time since compilation of the information began . |