Example sentences of "[adj] since it [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 This approach is potentially useful since it suggests that women 's under-representation in public politics can be seen not simply in terms of women 's lack of interest in politics but of the ability of men to prevent women 's issues entering politics .
2 The minimalist interpretation is too weak since it assumes that people are never bound by authority regarding issues on which they have firm views .
3 This last point is critical since it means that the number of common elements will be reduced and accordingly that discrimination between A and B will be enhanced .
4 The underlying motive here ( although the word ‘ motive ’ is misleading since it suggests that such strategies are not genetically driven but are a product of conscious strategy ) is again ‘ the selfish gene ’ and its reproductive success .
5 Therefore the structures seen in ( 1a ) are acceptable ( where boldened material = expanded dip ) : whereas the structures seen in ( 1b ) are debarred : The treatment of these expanded dips is very plausible since it shows that the distribution of elements within the verse-line can be derived from phonological behaviour : verbal prefixes , for example , are exempted from the constraint on expanded dips , just as they are labelled as extra-metrical in word-stress derivations .
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