Example sentences of "since it is [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sanger duty is particularly boring because there is nothing else to do but look out of the window , and since it is rarely done in pairs social interaction provides no compensation . |
| 2 | I myself shall be there , since it is clearly expected of me , and thus there will be no need of a chaperon . |
| 3 | The express statutory definition of ‘ company ’ is only its prima facie meaning , since it is expressly provided in section 735(4) of the Act of 1985 that the defined meaning may be displaced where a contrary intention appears . |
| 4 | Promotion , however , tends to be slow , since it is generally governed by the principle of ‘ Buggins 's turn ’ ; one reaches the top or near-top only at about the age of 55 , when one is not far off retirement . |
| 5 | Thirdly , when patients are funded privately in NHS pay beds data are collected by regional health authorities as part of their NHS monitoring , but the information is not passed on to purchasers since it is not covered by contracts . |
| 6 | The first is that acquired solely by study and reading which is only a pale imitation of the real thing since it is not accompanied by an experience of love which answers to the intellectual knowledge ( c.4 ) . |
| 7 | It is the third group which concerns us , since it is closely related to selection methods . |
| 8 | This is a matter that is worth some brief discussion , since it is closely connected with the fuss that has been made about the application of the term ‘ altruism ’ to animal as to human behaviour . |
| 9 | This is hardly surprising since it is mainly purchased by women between certain ages , and is associated with baby and child care . |
| 10 | As he says , ‘ My text requires a certain sensitivity to the political problems of the class struggle on the part of the reader , since it is entirely determined by the theoretico-political conjuncture ’ . |
| 11 | The labia law presumably applies only to the W H Smith/Menzies titles , since it is routinely breached by the magazines in corner shops and the smaller chains . |
| 12 | It is difficult to define the absolute composition of fasting gastric juice since it is unavoidably contaminated by saliva , and often bile and pancreatic uice , and because mucus may bind metals strongly . |
| 13 | In effect , the scarp has been taken as representing the whole of the Marada unit , since it is commonly capped by a white limestone of post-Burdigalian age and the desert floor below is commonly strewn with Lepidocyclina from the Oligocene ( sometimes neatly sorted by the desert wind into megalosphaeric and microsphaeric forms ) . |
| 14 | However local and limited the awareness to which the words testify , I have identified a spontaneous reaction to which , since it is provisionally approved by ‘ Be aware ’ , it is rational to seek means as an end good in itself ; if you disagree , the burden of proof has shifted to you , to make me aware of something overlooked which will redirect my response . |
| 15 | Observe the completely different effect produced by replacing the adjectives in ( 1 ) by the corresponding adverbs , as in : ( 28 ) Ellen shook the keys loosely muzak drives them madly And contrast the two sentences of ( 29 ) ( b ) : ( 29 ) ( a ) what did the new system do to the motors ? ( b ) the new system made the motors quieter the new system made the motors more quietly 5.4 Let us now return to the matter of the resultative nuance which can indeed be observed in all the examples we have given , reproducing the structural diagrams ( 21 ) and ( 22 ) to do so : ( 21 ) ( 22 ) If these diagrams represent the relations actually used in constructing such expressions , it follows that the entity of the noun phrase , as initially present to the mind of the speaker ( and to that of the listener in the final interpretative phase of comprehension ) lacks the property of the adjective since it is structurally separated from it ; however , since that property is expressed by an adjective , then ex hypothesi it will apply to the entity of the noun phrase when the construction is taken as a whole ; if not , then either the property would be expressed by an adverb , and apply to the verb , or the whole construction would be literally incoherent . |