Example sentences of "[coord] since " in BNC.

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1 Not for one moment — not then or since — did I regret being denied the summit .
2 Society has changed since the days of the cart and horse , or since men with red flags walked in front of cars at the same speed as the Orange Walk .
3 Or since these desirable states can be put into words , do they belong only to the left hemisphere ? .
4 I 've never before or since seen instant mass hysteria to match it .
5 Even some like-minded philosophers ( Mackie , 1974 , Ch. 2 ; Sanford , 1985 ) have been ready enough to take it that if c caused e in an ordinary situation then it is true , as we have it in ( 1 ) , that if c had n't occurred , neither would e , but they have omitted or denied what we now have in ( 3 ) , that it is also true that if or since c occurred , so did e .
6 There is no reason here , and I think no reason at all , to doubt that we take it of a cause and its effect that if or since the cause occurred then so did the effect .
7 If or since we had the solar conditions , even if certain other things had happened , we would still have got last night .
8 Such connection is what is stated by independent nomic conditionals and , of course , holds between any two things when it is true that if or since the first occurred , then even if any change logically consistent with either had also occurred , the second would still have occurred .
9 She 'd never seen swings like them before or since — wooden boats painted bright yellow with curlicues of red and green , where two of you sat facing each other and pulled alternately on ropes to swing yourselves higher and higher .
10 Never before or since equalled for its length , number of sets and sheer volume of visual effects , this twelve part story remains a testament to the skills , planning and resourcefulness of Doctor Who 's most formative Director , Douglas Camfield , now sadly deceased .
11 Something I 've never done before or since in my life .
12 He had never employed a girl before or since and now it seemed to Lyn that Dadda had hand-picked her for Stephen without the knowledge of either of them .
13 That is why we need history presented as it is in this book : not just as the brief flicker of time since the industrial revolution or since the invention of writing , but as the 40,000 years of modern thought and language , and the sweep of six million years since we were born as the third chimpanzee .
14 Literally it may be defined as ‘ the geography of living organisms ’ or since geography is traditionally the study of living things and particularly man in relation to the environment , the most accurate job description of the subject may be the ‘ geography of the biosphere ’ . ’
15 I do n't think I 've ever been so tired before or since as I was just that , that first year when we were probationer nurses .
16 They had n't spoken to one another about Timothy Gedge , either last night or since Stephen had closed the French windows in his face , several hours ago .
17 No serving officer — at that time , or since — could match his enviable array of qualifications and experience .
18 To attend nearby nurseries involves car transport to or since bus timing is unsuitable .
19 Just picking up on Professor Lock 's point earlier on about changes in the nineteen eighties or since the nineteen eighties , erm as in my statement I have suggested that there has been a substantial loss of nature conservation interest and wild life habitats both in this county and throughout the country .
20 O Sister , Sister ! if ever you marry , beware of a sullen , silent Sot , one that 's always musing , but never thinks : — There 's some Diversion in a talking Blockhead : and since a Woman must wear Chains , I wou 'd have the Pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little .
21 I had joined a group who are still fixated on a classification of ‘ disorder ’ which homes in on those who attack property , ; and since the amassing of property has been a primary aim of capitalist society , it should come as no surprise to find that to prevent the dispossessed from simply taking from the élite has been the primary structuring principle of policing .
22 resulted in the controllers making … a puritan attack directed at the drug taking of the ( underground ) movement ; and since the drug-scene is complex and confused , and we have little time in which to develop a reliable folk-lore about drugs and how to take them ( as we have long ago done about alcohol ) , they have been particularly successful in fostering anxiety among teachers , parents and establishment figures .
23 Since the CTP is so flawed as an explanation of the mind and since its apparent attractions are apparent rather than real , how does the claim of that science to advance our understanding of the mind command such a following ?
24 As a member of the International Olympic Committee , the sport which has been his life , both before and since his professional career as a journalist , will have a permanent voice in the world 's most important sporting forum .
25 Fast , zero wait state sram is expensive and since many DSPs have 24-bit data buses , can prove to be quite costly .
26 It remains true that in Tate 's criticism and since ( for no advance has been made in this quarter ) ‘ rhythm ’ and ‘ movement ’ are wholly impressionistic — you hear what the critic is talking about , or else you do n't .
27 Williams had a good ear , and since his death some of his admirers have made more sense of his procedures than he could ever make for himself , but the lamentable effect of his example has been to lead poets to trust their ear implicitly , thus discrediting the very notion of measure .
28 At the time of the acquisition insurance analysts said that AMP had aspirations to expand , and since it controls one third of the Australian life insurance market its opportunities were limited in that country .
29 And since they 've refused repeatedly to have a public inquiry into what is going on there we 're not certain of the safety of what 's coming out .
30 And since the image of life on earth has been virtually redrawn as a result of the rapidly developing science of molecular biology , how can anyone fail to mention Crick , Monod , Bragg or Delbruck ; and since the picture of the human mind has to be radically reconstrued following the work of von Neumann , Turing , Shannon and Wiener , it is hard to understand how none of these people received a mention .
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