Example sentences of "since [pron] is [adv] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | This is hardly surprising since it is mainly purchased by women between certain ages , and is associated with baby and child care . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Arrow ( 1984 ) calls the general phenomenon hidden action , since what is not observed by the principal in general is the action of the agent , be it effort or whatever . |