Example sentences of "since it [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vernal equinox was the greatest of all the Celtic seasonal festivals , since it signalled the rebirth of vegetation in the cycle of death and rebirth . |
| 2 | Since it took the decision to re-enter the European market three years ago , annual sales have risen to 50,000 on the Continent . |
| 3 | The Times claims its circulation has soared by 20pc since it launched the circulation war on Monday . |
| 4 | Even before the struggle in the Low Countries was complete , yet another type of revolt took place in economically much more backward England ( but an England closely preoccupied with the revolt across the sea since it affected the position of Protestant England relative to Catholic Spain and France ) . |
| 5 | Joan liked the name and , since it pleased the duchess , had no qualms about severing this last link with her former life . |
| 6 | The enmity which arose between France and Britain in 1840 was a bonus , since it reduced the likelihood that the two countries would act jointly against Russia on a future occasion . |
| 7 | ‘ It wo n't have been on a weighing machine since it left the village where it was grown . ’ |
| 8 | IBM Corp has now shipped 700,000 copies of OS/2 2.0 since it announced the product on March 31 and claims it has exceeded its initial unit sales projection — ‘ We 're well on track to surpass many industry expectations , ’ it said , but Reuter notes that IBM has previously said its expects to sell ‘ millions ’ of copies of OS/2 this year but has never provided a specific forecast . |
| 9 | Hence sentence 10 does not have a number of parses since it exhausted the storage of the LISP system , having already allocated 25 MBytes . |
| 10 | As a symbolic act it was of much importance since it offered the prospect of a framework for a wider Anglo-Irish settlement and provided a hope of genuine political involvement for the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland , not in a failed local assembly but through their co-religionists in the south . |
| 11 | This was an extremely important distinction that Bukharin was making in his debate with Preobrazhensky , since it entailed the question of how the Soviet state should act in its relations with the peasant population . |
| 12 | Kuznetsk recovered from its period in the doldrums ; in fact it was the only one of the old Siberian forts apart from Tobolsk to be rebuilt in stone , since it formed the terminus of the most easterly section of the fortifications . |
| 13 | It is very understandable that those who wish for a federal Europe should have tried to undermine the credibility of the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motion , since it attracted the names of over eighty Conservative Members of Parliament . |
| 14 | San Giovanni seems to have been the well-to-do area , as one would expect , since it included the cathedral . |
| 15 | The nineteen-year luni-solar cycle became the foundation of the Jewish and Christian calendars , since it solved the problem of establishing the dates of new moons for religious purposes . |
| 16 | The decision , reached by a 7-2 majority , was seen as having wider implications , since it dismissed the case solely on the grounds that those bringing it lacked the standing to sue [ see below ] . |
| 17 | One recommendation was to rotate sheep through paddocks , but since it involved the return of the sheep to their previously grazed paddocks in the same season , this was of little value . |
| 18 | Yet unemployment undoubtedly helped to speed up the Liberal decline and Labour rise since it highlighted the rigidity of the immediate post-war Liberal Party which was clearly unwilling to adapt its policies and ideas on free trade to the new demands of the age . |
| 19 | The Catholic Church had enormous secular ( as well as spiritual ) power , since it possessed the right to income from vast expanses of land . |
| 20 | Furthermore , confidence in the exchange value of the dollar was essential since it provided the bulk of the reserve assets in the system : any devaluation of the dollar would give rise to fears that it might be devalued again , and hence there would be a reluctance to hold dollars as a reserve currency . |
| 21 | Fujitsu Ltd has won its first supercomputer order in the US since it entered the market under its own name in March last year rather than through Amdahl Corp : it will lease a VPX220 model to the Geco-Prakla Inc oil exploration unit of Schlumberger Ltd , which will use it for seismic mapping of underground oil deposits ; the value was not given . |
| 22 | Since it joined the MOPs quality programme in late 1990 , Weston Point Salt Section has eliminated over £1m from its Cost of Quality . |
| 23 | Hungarians understand perfectly well that this may be due to internal Romanian reasons — the Romanian army had played some part in the initial repression in Timisoara , but since it joined the rebellion this fact has been conveniently forgotten . |
| 24 | In all of this , the Great Reform Act , 1832 stands as some kind of landmark development in the history of constitutional theory and political practice since it broke the essentials of the eighteenth-century constitution and also entrenched a new principle of governmental organisation . |
| 25 | Stephen Duck 's success under the queen 's patronage is an event of some importance since it established the precedent of a labouring poet entering the mainstream of contemporary literature . |
| 26 | The town 's new Mayor , only the second since it gained the town title , spent the day at the fire station to learn about their work . |
| 27 | But it was opposed by Beijing since it required the Pol Pot group supported by China to lay down its arms . |
| 28 | Commenting on another storming quarter — figures , page seven — Microsoft Corp , whose third quarter earnings of $0.80 a share were above consensus analyst estimates of $0.78 for the period , warned that fourth quarter growth in profits would be less impressive — ‘ One of the things that 's different in this fourth quarter is we do n't have this kicker product , the icing on the cake , ’ said Microsoft investor relations chief Raymond Ferguson ; Microsoft said it shipped a record-breaking 2m MS-DOS 6 retail upgrade copies in the two weeks since it hit the market , but the company said they would be pleased if fourth-quarter revenues rose by half the roughly 20% sequential quarterly rate of recent years , when Microsoft has benefited from upgrade versions of Windows 3.0 , MS-DOS 5 and then Windows 3.1 ; it is still likely to see its first billion dollar quarter this time ; during the fiscal third quarter , sales of applications , which accounted for 61% of total revenues in the period , leaped 63% over year-ago levels to $580m , and Microsoft ended the quarter with $2,000m in cash ; shipment of Windows NT is on schedule for late June following a late May unveiling , the firm said . |
| 29 | The reasons for this puzzling association of money wage changes and real-wage changes in classical theory are not altogether clear , though we speculated in Chapter 2 that the influence of the quantity theory of money probably played an important part since it anchored the price level to the quantity of money in circulation , releasing the money-wage bargain to determine real wages . |
| 30 | Little hard news has come out of the world 's biggest advertising group since it put the division on the block . |