Example sentences of "since it [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the best measure of fitness , since it expresses the greatest rate at which an individual can exert himself . |
| 2 | One of a great flurry of plans being prepared in the Pentagon as the politicians on Capitol Hill sharpen their knives to carve the ‘ peace dividend ’ from the budget , the plan will arouse great controversy , since it invades the functional territory of the US Marine Corps . |
| 3 | In the progress of the Mirror the meditations ( which this text also calls contemplation ) on the Passion are one part of the process by which man sees God in himself since it activates the trinitarian structure of the soul and is the means by which the Incarnation is realised and man becomes holy . |
| 4 | This seems a useful technique for any situation where a straight piece of wood ends in a curve , since it maintains the visual integrity of the piece and is considerably easier than laminating a number of separate strips ( which I always find slide out of line while being clamped ) . |
| 5 | This was critical , since it took the new tax from being a hybrid to being a loosely-disguised property tax . |
| 6 | And yet it seems reasonable to suppose that , since it remains the same object viewed by the observer , the retinal images do not change . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Such a clause would not bring the dispute between holists and individualists any nearer to a solution , however , since it begs the very question at issue . |
| 9 | Brideshead , too , is an exercise in passionate nostalgia , and of a kind that has sometimes been held to be embarrassing , since it celebrates the dying life of a great country house , though such critical embarrassments may be more ritual than real . |
| 10 | Always Defect does well against Always Cooperate , since it gets the high ‘ Temptation ’ score every time . |
| 11 | This is essentially a social concept since it represents the social development of a person , that is of the concept of self in the eyes of others . |
| 12 | The use of reference selling in industrial marketing can be highly successful since it reduces the perceived risk for a potential buyer . |
| 13 | The only positive aspect is that since it attracts the seediest sort of tourist , it keeps them all in one place like a gigantic concrete fly-paper , and stops them wandering all over the unspoiled parts of the Highlands looking for go-cart tracks and timeshare chalets . |
| 14 | It was a vigorous gesture , but also a risky one , since it emphasized the yawning gulf between the traditional pattern of autonomous free institutions within a plural culture and the new centralizing regime . |
| 15 | The expression of individual choice and of multiple points of view is , in that sense , ‘ ideological ’ , since it disguises the true situation behind an appearance of reality . |
| 16 | He said that he was willing to modify parts of the Driglam Namzha programme and admitted that the current mode of representation in the Tsogdu was imperfect since it gave the Nepalese-dominated districts in the south only 16 seats out of a total of 151 . |
| 17 | The same is found with ‘ her ’ , as in compared with This is a difficult problem , since it weakens the general claim made earlier that each tone-unit contains only one tonic syllable . |
| 18 | On the settlement day the value of the forward contract could be negative since it equals the current price of the stock minus the prearranged forward price . |
| 19 | The secretary-managership of Leeds City had become vacant on the retirement of Scott Walford at the end of the club 's most disastrous season since it entered the Second Division eight years before , and the public looked with keen interest to see what effect the new man 's ‘ shrewd judgement and tactful management ’ ( Yorkshire Post ) would have . |
| 20 | This is a felicitous choice , since it serves the dual purpose of examining design at the same time as providing a basis for a definition of art , from which it is distinguished . |
| 21 | As Nina remarks , this is a condition which afflicts Gael 's novel as well , and since it has the same title as the novel we read , comparison is inevitable . |
| 22 | We are surprised that the guidance makes scant reference to the importance of strategic planning guidance , particularly since it stresses the close scrutiny which the Secretary of State will want to give to large scale or controversial proposals , which must be referred to him . |
| 23 | The last sentence is particularly to the point since it stresses the complicated role of rights talk in everyday human transactions . |
| 24 | She was said to mix well , a social attribute particularly esteemed in one of such high birth and breeding since it implied the correct unconsciousness of her status . |
| 25 | But the general implications of the table are also important since it demonstrates the relative concentration of supply . |
| 26 | Since it carries the sole generator ( and hydraulic pump ) the left engine is fired up first . |
| 27 | Procedurally speaking , this is not an aggravated assault , since it carries the same maximum penalty as common assault ( six months ' imprisonment ) and is also triable summarily only . |
| 28 | Thus William Kornhauser , in The Politics of Mass Society ( 1960 ) , contended that " Mass politics in democratic society is therefore anti-democratic , since it contravenes the constitutional order " . |
| 29 | This explanation is not entirely convincing , however , since it overlooks the important industry and workplace negotiations which also take place . |
| 30 | It was pointed out , in Chapter 1 , that such a defence will have conservative implications since it puts the moral patients at the mercy of those interests , whatever they might be , that prevail amongst moral agents in a society . |