Example sentences of "since there [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hours now since we had last eaten , hours more since there had been any sleep . |
| 2 | This polarisation of attitudes was perhaps unfortunate since there had been signs of a certain willingness on the part of the Department to reconsider the validity of their ideas and to give some weight to the social issues behind the public reaction to the housing policy . |
| 3 | All the elements of a quasi-partnership were present and since there had been a loss of mutual confidence , on the basis of Ebrahimi v Westbourne Galleries Ltd [ 1973 ] AC 360 , it was just and equitable that the company should be wound up . |
| 4 | The First ( or rather the first he acknowledged , since there had been a previous Quartettsatz he had written at the age of 25 ) was completed in 1920 after a long gestation period of four years — partly explicable by its extreme complexity and his elaborately detailed indications on the playing of almost every note . |
| 5 | However , since there had been open and vigorous debate about what everyone wanted , it had been possible for her to exercise considerable discretion on the department 's behalf when ordering , or selecting at book suppliers . |
| 6 | Since there had been no clear mandate in 1910 and since the Lords could not now force another election , Unionists would have to resist until the government called one themselves . |
| 7 | There was no doubt in his mind that they would break in , since there had n't been any failed revolutions on the island during his time . |
| 8 | There was no blood since there had been no cut . |
| 9 | Up until then people had made butter and sometimes cheese from the milk since there had never been a collection until Willie , who was a very good businessman , began to transport it out — on a horse and cart at first , until he acquired a wagon . |
| 10 | British Moslem leaders claimed that the ban was an example of British double standards , since there had been no ban on Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses , for which he had first been condemned to death by the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in February 1989 [ see pp. 36450-51 ; 37266 ] . |
| 11 | Since there had been clearly nothing she could do about the situation , Laura had been forced to buckle down and do what she could to keep the twins happy . |
| 12 | Ted McCarty claims it was intentional , since there seemed little point in covering an expensive maple top with black paint . |
| 13 | They argued that since there seemed to be infinitely more Friedmann-like models without a big bang singularity than there were with one , we should conclude that there had not in reality been a big bang . |
| 14 | Maybe he thought that since there 'd been sixty-odd quid in my bag there 'd be more on my person , and he only had to wait till I nodded off and then he 'd nick it and away . |
| 15 | And since there did n't seem anything she could do , and there was n't anything else she dared to say , she turned round and slowly trudged back to the house . |
| 16 | But such support was qualified since there remained ambiguity over whether the Black Sea and Soviet naval forces in those waters should be included within the ambit of the Soviet proposal for the Mediterranean . |
| 17 | Since there appeared to be no help for it , she admitted to being who she was . |
| 18 | ( c ) When she raised the question of blood transfusions the only response was to lull her into a sense of false security , both the staff nurse , in her express words , and Dr. F. in his demeanour and the obstetrics staff nurse explicitly , all sought to indicate that it did not much matter since there appeared to them to be no prospect of a blood transfusion becoming necessary . |