Example sentences of "but [vb base] since [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't too sure what ‘ officiants ’ were in this context but have since realized that they perform in place of ministers of religion in humanist funerals . |
| 2 | The alarmed Hungarians initially kept this threat to themselves , but have since raised the issue in private both within the Warsaw Pact and with certain Western governments . |
| 3 | The record-keeping and office procedures implications of the Modular Course when it started in 1973 with an intake of 75 students were modest but have since grown with the Course . |
| 4 | Of the six patients with poor or absent gall bladder emptying ( non-function ) two had patient cystic ducts after treatment of perforated empyemas but have since developed contracted , thick walled gall bladders . |
| 5 | Indeed , some of their officials expressed strong opinions on the subject at the time but have since decided to wait and , as one put it , ‘ let the team do the talking on the park in Newry . ’ |
| 6 | New Stewards came in early 1983 but have since moved on and Tony and Cheryl Wright started in December 1985 . |
| 7 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
| 8 | Since 1948 numbers at Leasam reached a peak of 63 nests in 1950 , declined to an all-time low of five in 1963 , but have since recovered steadily ; the 1970 figure was 30 , and there were 23 or more in 1975 . |
| 9 | What 's worse , they all got the boot but have since proved they can do the business at the highest level . |
| 10 | Expressed as crude annual rates per thousand , they fell from 23 in 1861–65 to 12 in 1931–35 , but have since shown no further improvement due to the ageing of the population , and still stood at 11.4 in 1988 . |