Example sentences of "[conj] since [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To attend nearby nurseries involves car transport to or since bus timing is unsuitable . |
| 2 | Literally it may be defined as ‘ the geography of living organisms ’ or since geography is traditionally the study of living things and particularly man in relation to the environment , the most accurate job description of the subject may be the ‘ geography of the biosphere ’ . ’ |
| 3 | Equally , emotions have never run higher at Murrayfield than since Flower of Scotland was introduced as a ‘ national anthem ’ before kick-off . |
| 4 | It 's the Government 's view that since toy safetly legislation was introduced in 1967 , buyers of second hand toys should be able to expect the same level of safety as those buying new toys . |
| 5 | The bishops ' letter has shown the possibility of open dissent to a population that since independence has known nothing but calm . |
| 6 | I suspect that it is assumed by most people , including those who planned this course of lectures , that language is a means of communication — that this is what it is for ; and that since literature is made out of language , it too must be a kind of communication , as defined by , for instance , the Collins English Dictionary : ‘ the imparting or exchange of information , ideas , feelings ’ . |
| 7 | It is commonly suggested that since faith depends on assumptions , it has nothing to do with knowledge , just as knowledge has no need of faith . |
| 8 | Alison signalled her appreciation of this pun , but took a neo-McLuhanite line herself , arguing that since actuality was the essence of the medium , watching a classic novel on television was as odd as reading it in a newspaper . |
| 9 | And I think that since feminism involves a belief in women 's equality and of women organising and struggling on issues that affect our lives , that the emphasis will vary depending on where we are . |
| 10 | Mum always bragged about never borrowing off anyone but I had noticed that since Dad had been on short time she seemed to have more money than ever to spend and was getting more friendly with the neighbours she could not stand as a rule . |
| 11 | Such a formulation would require those asking the questions to confront the real problems : the need to understand that the aspiration to the exercise of democratic right and the discharge of democratic responsibility must arise from those who would exercise the right and discharge the responsibility and is not to be thrust upon those who do not want it or induced in those who are indifferent to it ; the need for a form of organisation such that the interests of ownership and labour would be congruent ; and the need to recognise that since accountability , above all , is the test of authentic democracy , then by that same test there will be some circumstances in which the general case for industrial democracy is over-ridden . |
| 12 | Eight resolutions were put before the Congress , the most crucial being the first two which proposed that since education of deaf children by the proven Oral Method was far superior , the use of sign language in education should no longer be used . |
| 13 | On a more general level it is possible to say that since painting is in any case an art of illusion , in so far as it conveys sensations of volume and depth on a two-dimensional surface , it was easier for the Cubists to break with traditional conventions , to push the ‘ illusion ’ one step further , and to invent a new pictorial language , than it was to find a new way of dealing with the solid , tangible forms themselves . |
| 14 | It occurred to Hobbes that since knowledge , whether systematically developed or not , begins with sense-perception , we should not pride ourselves on knowing much if we do not understand what sense-perception actually is . |
| 15 | A flight from positivism has been witnessed in recent years in the social sciences , and the argument appears to be now widely accepted that since knowledge is never the direct product of experience . |
| 16 | Similarly , Wolin makes explicit the relationship between group bargaining and the exclusion of particular groups by arguing that since legitimacy is something that has become associated with groups , public authority has no source of power peculiarly its own' . |
| 17 | Equally it might be argued that since withdrawal from NATO was the last card he could play in his campaign against American influence , short of defecting from the West altogether , there were good reasons not to play it until it seemed likely to be effective or became absolutely necessary . |
| 18 | The first ground upon which recovery was sought was based upon the constitutional argument that since Parliament had not authorised the collection by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise of the tax the corporation was entitled to recover the amounts illegally exacted from it . |
| 19 | By the time it published the first issue of its bulletin , STOP , in February 1980 the DUC had effectively changed from being an information and research group into an opposition group , as the bulletin made clear : ‘ After investigation into the hazards related to uranium and its by-products , the DUC feels that since uranium can not be mined safely , exploration should cease . ’ |
| 20 | I should make it absolutely clear that since deregulation there has been a very considerable increase in mileage served by buses both north and south of the border . |
| 21 | I have to say that since deregulation there is no evidence to suggest that safety standards have been significantly affected , and there is no reason to expect that privatisation of the Scottish Bus Group would affect safety . |
| 22 | Renberg and Hellberg ( 1982 ) , for example , analysed diatom assemblages in lake sediment cores in south-west Sweden and found that since deglaciation of the area about 12,500 years ago , the pH of the lakes had decreased from about 7 to about 6 due to natural long-term oligotrophication and acidification . |
| 23 | ‘ It is a peculiar fact of life that since tourism came to España the average height of our nation has increased dramatically . |
| 24 | The idea was that since repetition is so good the pathways across the cortex ( hence trans cortical ) from the brain regions for perceiving speech to the brain regions for producing speech are intact . |
| 25 | Ginzberg points out , in relation to Ricardo , for example , that since labour was plentiful , there was no objective pressure for economists to place too much value on human capital . |
| 26 | Hamilton 's theory indicates that since altruism is only of survival value if it enhances fitness , it can evolve only where the recipients are relatives . |
| 27 | He argued that since crime , as officially recorded , was greatest amongst the working class , it followed that anomie too must be greatest in that social stratum . |
| 28 | He maintained that the increase was reasonable to provide sport for all , but insisted that since leisure and recreation expenditure took up 30 per cent of the council budget it had to safeguard jobs . |
| 29 | Held , allowing the application , that since section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 made provision for persons arrested for breaking bail conditions , or on the likelihood of their so doing , to be brought before a single justice , it was an enactment falling within the exception contemplated by section 121 of the Act of 1980 which , in any event , was limited to summary trials of informations and the hearing of complaints under the civil jurisdiction ; that Parliament had intended by section 7(4) to create a simple and expeditious procedure whereby a justice was required , before forming an opinion under section 7(5) , to conduct no more than an informal inquiry , hearing the arresting officer 's grounds for belief that the person had broken or might break his bail conditions and allowing that person to respond , but without the giving of evidence on oath or cross-examination ; and that , since the provisions of the Act of 1980 relating to the adjournment of proceedings before magistrates ' courts did not apply , there was no power in the justice to adjourn proceedings under section 7(5) ( post , pp. 24A , G — 25B , C–G , 26B , E–F , H — 27A , G–H ) . |
| 30 | Dismissing a charge under section 14 , the court held that since section 14 did not deal with a sale of goods , a reference to a shop sale was not a reference to a ‘ facility ’ within the meaning of section 14 . |