Example sentences of "since [pron] is not " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , since theirs is not to reason why , they attack , with disastrous consequences . |
| 2 | Since she is not to discuss the faults of the particular man involved , nor is there anything to be gained by arguing for the uninspiring Dusterandus , Leapor attempts to convince her friend that marriage per se is risky , even if there is some chance of a happy outcome : |
| 3 | Since she is not going to advise Octavia to marry the suspect Philander , she suggests celibacy : |
| 4 | The client was not able to sign a green form to obtain advice as she was not in receipt of income support but has been advised to make a claim for income support since she is not receiving the maintenance . |
| 5 | It is thus evident that the fall of Magnentius and the subsequent zeal of Paulus had an effect on the Britons and their estates , but its extent is difficult to quantify , since there is not yet enough large-scale excavation of villas and other rural establishments using modern refined techniques . |
| 6 | And he must be aware of people since he is not only concerned with the technical standing of machines but also with the physical and mental health of his operators . |
| 7 | He should be here , thought Taliesin again , but since he is not , since he is forever inside the Prison of Hostages , then I must carry out the quest for him . |
| 8 | Gandalf tells him that since he is not in a position to pass judgement on everyone he should not pass it on one person . |
| 9 | I have remarked on its dominance in Oxford English , and a generation ago it was given magisterial expression in Northrop Frye 's Anatomy of Criticism , which aspired to a ‘ scientific ’ criticism where there would be no place for evaluation , since it is not nobler to study stars than earthworms . |
| 10 | Parisians remain unconvinced that the project will be approved , especially since it is not the only idea on the drawing board . |
| 11 | Since it is not easy to see a distinction between their characteristic properties and some essence from which they flow , one might be tempted to think that , when Locke speaks of a coincidence of their real and nominal essence , he means that the notion of a real essence does not really apply to modes . |
| 12 | When a plant or animal dies it ceases to participate in carbon exchange with the biosphere and no longer takes in 14 C. If 14 C were stable , its concentration relative to 12 C would remain constant after death , but , since it is not . |
| 13 | His claim for the trust can no longer be offset against that debt , since it is not owed . |
| 14 | Availability is less meaningful as a measure of performance since it is not possible to be sure the plant would be available to produce full load unless it is actually in operation , which proves whether or not it is working satisfactorily . |
| 15 | In applying such a test , no jury should require expert evidence , since it is not the psychological or sociological effect , but the moral effect that must be considered , in accordance with their own experience as responsible adults . |
| 16 | Remember also , that a licence may be required to use this type of device since it is not handheld — if in doubt , consult your local water company . |
| 17 | Unfortunately the camera is not really suitable for fish photography since it is not able to focus on close objects . |
| 18 | It is assumed that the UK group satisfies the small group criteria in s 249 and since it is not an ineligible group for the purposes of s 248 , it need not prepare group accounts . |
| 19 | Only designs suitable for tuck can be used , since it is not possible to tuck two needles together even when tucking alternate rows . |
| 20 | Its defence has been largely the concern of other powers since the fall of Singapore in 1942 ; and the British independent nuclear deterrent is no more than a phrase , since it is not independent and , as the Falklands crisis of 1982 showed , it does not deter . |
| 21 | In the building industry , not only in France but also in Sweden , West Germany , Italy , as well as in Britain , the main body was ( and still is ) both an employers ' and a trade association since it is not easy to separate the negotiation of wages from matters such as agreed arrangements for contract tendering . |
| 22 | This would n't be surprising in some ways , since it is not clear that the visual system is organized in the same way in all species . |
| 23 | To claim money as a major human goal is not to make any specific claim about ‘ human nature ’ ( such as its mercenariness ) since it is not so much a goal in itself but the facilitator of almost all possible human goals — expressive , artistic , acquisitive or whatever . |
| 24 | Since it is not involved in the management of the company it is in a position to monitor and check the performance of the executives actually managing the company , to ensure that they act only in the interests of the shareholders . |
| 25 | Although the European Community as a body can not be party to the Berne Convention ( since it is not a nation state ) , the Convention nevertheless specifically concerns the EC . |
| 26 | Although real cream cheese may be made from real cream it is n't real cheese , since it is not a curd but simply ripened cream , semi-solidified and drained of its fluid content . |
| 27 | In a sense , this is an affectation , since it is not necessary to wear jeans , baseball boots , studded leather jackets and ear-rings to devise good advertisements , but good creative people are sufficiently rare and expensive for agency managers to be prepared to pander to most of their foibles . |
| 28 | It is the only castle I have been to which has a front doorbell , which you need to pull on if you want to see round since it is not automatically open to visitors . |
| 29 | Since it is not possible to get inside the heads of actors , the discovery of meaning must be based on interpretation and intuition . |
| 30 | Since it is not at the moment clear how general this type of sociolinguistic pattern might be , any attempt at explanation is premature ; however , it is probably possible to relate the narrow range characteristic of the higher-status speakers ' pattern to parallel structural tendencies in languages which have undergone processes of standardization ( Milroy and Milroy 1985a , chapters 1 and 2 ) . |