Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] since it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The database concept is ideally suited to professional activities since it relies on an assumption that an ‘ architecture ’ of information storage and retrieval will follow predetermined ( albeit flexible ) routes . |
| 2 | However , the vendors are likely to resist giving extensive warranties since it is the managers , not they , who have been involved in the day-to-day running of the company . |
| 3 | In the context of this chapter , however , it is particularly important to deal with the corporatist perspective on the politics of organised interests since it provides some kind of challenge to the pluralist perspective ( even though pluralism and corporatism share a number of basic assumptions ) , and it fleshes out elements of the left critique of pluralism ( even though much corporatist theory is hostile to a Marxist theory of the capitalist state ) . |
| 4 | This is believed to be the first time that an attempt has been made to compile a complete statistical record of Soviet economic development assistance to the less developed countries since it started on a formal basis in 1954 ; by 1983 such assistance had gone to a total of 57 countries . |
| 5 | It also reflected philosophical scruples since it was n't obvious how a mechanical device could be conscious and , as Descartes is famous for pointing out , the only thing of which we can be certain is that we are conscious . |
| 6 | Caecal contents were used to indicate the composition of the proximal colonic contents since it was difficult to obtain sufficient proximal clonic contents in the low fibre diet rats to assay for SCFA . |
| 7 | The unfavourable prospect for exports is perhaps the most damaging of Africa 's economic weaknesses since it implies continued dependence on unstable , and on the whole , unfavourable commodity markets . |
| 8 | Consequently SCP is attractive to some corporate depositors since it commonly carries an interest rate of Libid or better and diversifies the risk away from the banking sector . |
| 9 | This would require approval by national parliaments since it involved an amendment to the 1957 Treaty of Rome [ see pp. 15951-59 ] . |
| 10 | Sarah was allowed to dust and polish in Mr Bradford 's rooms , a duty given only to trusted servants since it meant moving many of his important papers , but when she went in there after her return she dropped one of his boxes and everything was scattered over the carpet . |
| 11 | Israel , in a position of comparative strength , remained unwilling to make any substantial concessions since it was under no costly duress to do so . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend the Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) says that the Bill has been railroaded through the House , but I remind him that it is three long years since it was introduced . |
| 13 | This surprising observation has implications for the application of d 3C A to the study of DNA-protein interactions since it is possible that DNA duplexes containing this analogue may still bind proteins in the minor groove and therefore , the results from such studies need to be interpreted with care . |
| 14 | This does not raise any problems of mismatch with fiduciary duties since it is restricted to the operation of the rules themselves and does not affect any common law or equitable duties . |
| 15 | Plaunotol probably raises defensive factors since it enhances PG levels in gastric mucosa . |
| 16 | 1 ) It should have fewer problems with extraneous words than island-driving strategies since it ‘ prefers ’ to work left to right . |
| 17 | The lexical look-up technique is preferable to statistical methods since it does not have a built-in error rate and guarantees lexical output . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Church is then left with no alternative but to see salvation in Earthly terms since it has abandoned faith in a collective spiritual kingdom and relies on a shaky humanist spirituality . |
| 20 | The latter technique allows the presentation of signed stimuli since it involves brief visual presentations of material . |
| 21 | Defending the family as the centre of human life and the village as the basic social unit Eliot expresses his preference for London over other cities since it remains characteristically made up of a collection of villages whose borders touch , each maintaining its own local character . |
| 22 | This method may be used as a check on the reasonableness of valuations on other bases since it gives an indication of the minimum likely value . |
| 23 | This proposal was advanced as an important measure towards disarmament and the creation of zones of limited arms , but it was not taken seriously by Western leaders since it required in effect wholly asymmetrical concessions by East and West . |
| 24 | Bornstein ( 1979 ) also suggests that fingerspelling would not be useful for young children since it involves fine perceptions and handshapes which they themselves may not be able to form . |
| 25 | The potential for a reader 's motivation , involvement , and reward can be seen in books like Raymond Briggs ' The snowman ( with its many tell-tale gaps since it has no text ) and Susan Cooper 's The dark is rising novels . |
| 26 | A duty of care founded on creditor interests , in contrast , might in theory constrain the pursuit of maximum profits since it is in the interests of creditors that the company should undertake low risk , but sub-profit- maximising , projects , given an entitlement to a fixed return . |