Example sentences of "since it [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This weekend , senior opposition figures are beginning to admit , off the record , that in electing John Smith instead of , say , Gordon Brown or Ken Livingstone , Labour has possibly made its greatest error since it passed over Dennis Healey in favour of Michael Foot . |
| 2 | Water vapour is a key gas since it forms in clouds , and clouds are the most effective barrier to the escape of heat . |
| 3 | Fishing under licence was to continue within the original 150-mile zone , but no fishing was to be allowed in the new zone , to be regarded as an area of Anglo-Argentine co-operation , the eastern half of which was to be patrolled by the Falklands and the western half by Argentina since it overlapped with part of its 200-mile territorial waters . |
| 4 | He called for sensible and non-sectarian dialogue to solve a conflict between the government and judiciary , ostensibly over the constitutionality of a beer tax increase , which had plunged the country into its most serious constitutional crisis since it returned to democracy in 1982 . |
| 5 | Since it went on PROFs the response rate is up to 98% . |
| 6 | With exactly half the seats in the Congress the PSOE was without an absolute majority for the first time since it came to power in 1982 . |
| 7 | But the return to Devon of the engine after expiry of its ten-year boiler ticket is seen as a shot in the arm for the loco-starved South Devon Railway , reliant on externally hired motive power since it came into existence two years ago . |
| 8 | Bookings of the ten-year package , fixed at 8.99 per cent for those borrowing up to 90 per cent , have been steady since its launch and have picked up since it featured in Money Mail recently . |
| 9 | Unhappily , the section does not appear to authorise him to do so , since it refers in paragraph ( a ) to ‘ the constable , ’ a reference back to the constable who has issued the warning in the first place . |
| 10 | This sense was not merely one of self — confidence , since it arose in conjunction with a serene contempt for most of her neighbours and was not subjective , Scarlet reflected , and the glass reciprocated . |
| 11 | Bacon could be discussed here , since its input is numeric , or in the section on correlation and clustering since it searches for correlations . |
| 12 | But it has taken £69 million at the US box office since it opened at Christmas — all of which will delight Great Ormond Street Hospital , to which J M Barrie gave the rights of Peter Pan . |
| 13 | The Whetstone Lane advice centre whose aims include trying to reduce unplanned teenage pregnancies , has come under attack from anti-abortionists since it opened in January . |
| 14 | In theatres all over the rest of the country The Tart and the Vicar 's Wife packs them in , and has been ever since it opened in Preston in February 1986 . |
| 15 | Since it opened in May , however , criticism both of the space and its contents , have been rife . |
| 16 | Motivation research is one of the newer aspects of marketing research , and since it concentrates on motives and attitudes , it relies heavily on the expertise of psychologists for the design of and interpretation of its surveys . |
| 17 | The uninscribed tombstone from Murrell Hill is of some interest since it shows in relief a mother dressed in a tunic and seated in an upright chair , while holding an opened fan in her right hand . |
| 18 | It is a bold move , since it throws into reverse one of Clinton 's central election pledges . |
| 19 | Since it started in December nineteen ninety one , two hundred and sixty nine workplace counsellors have been trained to help employees with this problem . |
| 20 | 163 IBMers have joined Skillbase in Britain since it started in July 90 . |
| 21 | The Government is increasingly worried by the spread of Ecstasy since it arrived in Britain in the late Eighties . |
| 22 | Amid continuing tension in the capital , troops of the 500-strong Pakistani UN contingent guarding relief supplies at Mogadishu port and airport killed at least one Somali in a skirmish at the airport on Dec. 4 , the first blood shed by the force since it arrived in September [ see pp. 39085 ; 39132 ] . |
| 23 | This acrylic surface is the type that has been used at the US Open ever since it moved from Forest Hills to Flushing Meadows . |
| 24 | This makes an ideal classroom game , since it focuses on words , demands concentration , and children enjoy it . |
| 25 | The unresponsiveness of the V8 T-cell subset is frequent , since it occurred in 55% of the patients studied and longitudinal study of 10 patients indicated an effect lasting at least a year . |
| 26 | This proposal was advanced as an important measure towards disarmament and the creation of zones of limited arms , but it was not taken seriously by Western leaders since it required in effect wholly asymmetrical concessions by East and West . |
| 27 | But to pursue this point further at this stage would take us beyond our immediate concerns , since it impinges upon questions related to money , prices , rates of realised surplus-value , and to the problem of crises . |