Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] since [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've stopped smoking and your blood sugar is consistently within the normal range since you started the self-care programme six years ago . |
| 2 | Recitatives merely reinforce the prevailing tonality since they almost always begin and end in its tonic . |
| 3 | Because of the strange happenings since she had arrived , Jenna had almost forgotten her original reason for this trip . |
| 4 | Agassi , who is scheduled to launch his Wimbledon defence on Monday week , has suffered from tendonitis of the right wrist since he was last in action at Barcelona in April . |
| 5 | It would have been too much of a coincidence to have expected Tony Cable to be the engineering investigator at the top of the go-team list since he had worked in Seattle for the Boeing Company before he joined AIB ( the ‘ Branch ’ , as it is known by its members ) and his personal knowledge of that company 's products is obviously substantial . |
| 6 | Presumably the working class were voting for the Labour Party since they saw it as their party and did not need to incentive of a party machine . |
| 7 | Following their election in 1951 , the Conservatives , who in principle were less fettered than the Labour Party since they possessed no traditional commitment to early retirement , introduced a more flexible retirement policy for civil servants . |
| 8 | Local authority expenditure during the 12 years since we took office has risen by 26 per cent . |
| 9 | I was unable to use the public toilets since I was told I was in the wrong one whichever I went to . |
| 10 | Ponting 's defence was that he was acting in the public interest since he felt that the government was trying to mislead Parliament . |
| 11 | People had been telling him he had the wrong attitude since he was potty trained . |
| 12 | The buyers argued that they were entitled to reject the goods primarily on the basis of breach of the express condition since they were slightly damaged , even though they could be satisfactorily used . |
| 13 | The idea of destroying the Rainbow Warrior would have pleased both MI6 and the British government since they dislike organisations like CND and Greenpeace who hold very vocal anti-nuclear views , and already had their members listed on MI5 files and regularly tapped their telephones . |
| 14 | Although imperial lines , like the Canadian Pacific and the Grand Trunk Pacific in Canada or the Uganda and Cape to Cairo railways in Africa , stole the British headlines since they enhanced so many colonial myths , British investment and railway-building were more considerable and in many respects more potent in the Anglo-American ‘ informal Empire ’ of Latin America . |
| 15 | Despite a growing influx of visitors , it has changed very little in the forty years since I first saw it , remaining unspoiled and unsophisticated . |
| 16 | That morning Wycliffe had heard of the Glynn family for the first time and in the few hours since he had learned something about them ; about Gerald , Gina and Barry , about Christine and Aunt Sara , and about the uncles , Alfred and Maurice . |
| 17 | In the few hours since she had brought the house down she had been interviewed by three tabloids , Sky Television and by Tony Howard for ‘ Newsnight ’ . |
| 18 | The deterioration in my companion 's movements in the few weeks since I had last seen him was distressing to observe . |
| 19 | In the few years since they have been in existence , the colleges of higher education have had little or no guidance , from the DES or anywhere else , as to the directions they might follow . |
| 20 | So she knew that in the few years since she had last been in England great changes had begun to take place from some of which she might clearly benefit . |
| 21 | In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney . |
| 22 | During the six months since I had last seen him , Mr Broadhurst had undergone a further metamorphosis and this time the change was more radical , more entire , than ever before . |
| 23 | During the six years since he joined the company , he has been involved in many of the major changes that have taken place . |
| 24 | Carol , a jeweller for more than 25 years , has built up a steady following for her original designs in the six years since she moved out of London and started her own business . |
| 25 | Software has improved dramatically in the six years since I bought the old computer and this one is faster and easier to use . |
| 26 | It 's an age when we feel but do n't think yet , but you did n't seem to have learnt a thing about either yourself or Jones in the whole of the six years since I saw you last . ’ |
| 27 | However , the organisers decided not to award him the individual trophy since he already had a team trophy and instead awarded the individual trophy to the person with the lowest score . |
| 28 | Kim Il Sung 's most astonishing achievement is to have survived the 47 years since he was put in charge of the North by Stalin when Korea was divided in 1945 . |
| 29 | Wolves have now failed to progress beyond the second round since they won the then League Cup in 1980 . |
| 30 | It was only the second time since they had been married that she had rebuffed him . |