Example sentences of "since they [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since they had n't spotted me earlier , there was no embarrassment attached to my circuitous ramble and I hailed them with a tone of voice that sounded as if I knew what I was doing . |
| 2 | The English armies could hardly be said to have been outfought since they had not yet fought at all . |
| 3 | Well-intentioned though the dear soul undoubtedly was , Charlotte had hoped to avoid her , since they had not met since Maurice 's death and Mrs Mentiply could be relied upon to be as curious as she was sympathetic . |
| 4 | The drivers sought a declaration that the ban was invalid arguing , inter alia , that the ban was in breach of natural justice , since they had not been given an opportunity to make representations before the ban was imposed . |
| 5 | Since Picasso and Braque had not exhibited for some time , and since they had not taken part in the manifestations at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne , the public were not in a position to realize that their abstention deprived the Section d'Or of much of its meaning . |
| 6 | Since they did not understand what the Sign of the Cross meant or the meaning of Our Father , he had started with a simple explanation of these and had told them how important it was to start praying together . |
| 7 | In a further six cases ( one in Newham , five in Ipswich ) the development officer said she would have liked to provide a little extra help but a support worker was rejected by the client or his informal carer ; and since they did not require the kind of direct help which the development officer could provide , she merely visited occasionally to check whether or not the situation was breaking down . |
| 8 | Trusts were ideally suited for such treatment since they did not presuppose that certain words had been used by the testator , but merely that a certain intention had been manifested . |
| 9 | These conclusions were consigned to the inside pages , since they did not fit the script that had been written on Scotland 's behalf . |
| 10 | The Soviet view was that those Koreans who had condemned the Moscow agreement should not be consulted , since they did not accept the premises on which decisions were being reached . |
| 11 | Penelope hardly knew which to choose after this , but decided on brandy ; she had a vague idea that for women port was a rather low-class drink , since they did not — perhaps could not — appreciate it in the rather ritualistic way that men did . |
| 12 | ( The contracts for the furniture were not the subject of s. 2 , since they did not concern " land " . |
| 13 | As Table 14 shows , the overall distribution of material in need of repair was such that more than three-quarters ( 78% ) of all defective items issued were classified only as ‘ Poor ’ since they did not show major deterioration , while just under a fifth ( 18% ) were classified as ‘ Bad ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ You look well , Lili , ’ he remarked , also without warmth , and I wondered why they had ever been friends since they did n't like each other . |
| 15 | ‘ Which makes it more difficult for us , ’ said Pooley , ‘ since they did n't hang around for as long as usual , and therefore every single one of them was unobserved by the others for a minimum of half an hour . ’ |
| 16 | That was some smart car out there — and , since they did n't come any more ‘ top brass ’ than him , she had the most uncanny feeling that the Jaguar was his . |
| 17 | English cricket does not have this capacity for internal strife in the same way , the periodic Yorkshire blood-lettings being of a different order ; but West Indian cricket has grown strong precisely because it has risen above its problems , and on that basis England can not find the same sort of strength since they do not have the same problems to overcome . |
| 18 | Since they do not have any medical schools , all medical students have to train outside Luxembourg in one of the countries whose medical degrees it recognizes . |
| 19 | It was this particular feature that made its isolation so difficult , for it is impossible to grow chlamydia on the normal media used for bacteria , since they do not contain living cells . |
| 20 | Last week the Sizewell inquiry , at the Snape Maltings was assured by the board that the issues ‘ can be left for resolution in the normal way at an appropriate time in the project , since they do not require any fundamental system re-design to accommodate them ’ . |
| 21 | Thus , fur skins are not to be regarded as agricultural products , since they do not appear in Annex II , and therefore normal competition rules apply ( see the Hudson 's Bay case study pp. 208 — 12 ) . |
| 22 | Shares which the holder may or will be required to redeem are also not equity shares , since they do not form part of the residual interest in the company . |
| 23 | Those who subscribe to this view would disagree with the proposal of the FRED that where a warrant lapses unexercised the amount previously recognised should be reported in the statement of total recognised gains and losses , since they do not consider that it represents a gain to the company . |
| 24 | Women , I think , have to be canny in creating these opportunities for themselves , since they do not , on the whole , lead such compartmentalized lives as men , with separate times for ‘ work ’ and ‘ play ’ . |
| 25 | They begin with a headstart , since they do not use butter , cream or cheese in their cooking — in fact , cheese is regarded as rotten milk ! |
| 26 | Judging their welfare now becomes in many ways a much easier matter since we do not have the intervention of mysterious interests which , on Regan 's model , they must be supposed to have yet will be unable to give voice to since they do not speak . |
| 27 | As he himself said , it would be pointless to study such peoples with a questionnaire , since they do not write , and , while he certainly gained a great deal of essential information from conversation and discussion , it would have been quite futile to try to conduct any kind of interview until he had gained their trust and confidence , and until he had some idea of what kinds of questions he should be asking . |
| 28 | These histories , taken singly or together , do not seem to tell us what we want to know , since they do not help us to understand why cutlery firms in general increased in size . |
| 29 | The companies rather lamely contend that the market determines fair prices and that the government 's demands can not be met since they do not track much of the data and do not sell directly to customers . |
| 30 | The criminal acts themselves contribute nothing to this process since they do not exist as criminal acts unless they have been defined as such by official defining and sanctioning agencies ( a point made much of by interactionist writers , including Erikson ) . |