Example sentences of "[noun sg] since it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He attacks oralism as an additional depriving agent since it insists on having no further stimulation other than speech , when it is the language stimulation which is most important not the modality of stimulation . |
| 2 | Universitas may be identified with enterprise association since it embodies the idea of a managerial state constituted in the pursuit of a set of purposes . |
| 3 | To be in the First Division is prestigious , and also lucrative for a club since it ensures large crowds . |
| 4 | These same restrictions apply to the siting of council houses but this aspect of the policy has not engendered the same weight of opposition since it does not represent the interruption of an existing right , that is to say the ‘ right ’ to build private houses almost anywhere . |
| 5 | Nepotism is selfish behaviour having the appearance of altruism since it benefits relatives as well as ones own concerns . |
| 6 | Amid continuing tension in the capital , troops of the 500-strong Pakistani UN contingent guarding relief supplies at Mogadishu port and airport killed at least one Somali in a skirmish at the airport on Dec. 4 , the first blood shed by the force since it arrived in September [ see pp. 39085 ; 39132 ] . |
| 7 | The Commonwealth Tournament , which includes sides from Canada , Australia and New Zealand , takes place on a four-year cycle , and Britain has not lifted the trophy since it lasted hosted the event , at Ganton , in 1975 . |
| 8 | The term ‘ pendentive ’ is to some extent a misnomer since it appears to define a form which depends from the dome instead of , as it does , supporting it . |
| 9 | The two eldest kids are doing as well as they can and are bearing up as best as can be expected , ’ she said ‘ But my youngest boy has n't left my side since it happened . |
| 10 | The General Secretary of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen wrote to the Home Secretary arguing that the growth of fascism created a threat to organized labour since it had led elsewhere to the suppression and murder of trade unionists . |
| 11 | The BPI would class this record as an album since it has seven songs on it , but as the BPI are the catamites of despair and the handmaidens of drear , it 's here as an EP and it 's very odd . |
| 12 | National insurance was , as Lloyd George recognized , a most convenient device for a government short of revenue since it drew finance from workers and employers without the politically unpopular necessity to increase income tax . |
| 13 | The application of dynamic input is more restricted than static recognition since it demands that the user have available a suitable input device at the time of writing and is obviously only applicable to handwritten text . |
| 14 | In all of this , the Great Reform Act , 1832 stands as some kind of landmark development in the history of constitutional theory and political practice since it broke the essentials of the eighteenth-century constitution and also entrenched a new principle of governmental organisation . |
| 15 | To begin with , the term notion is itself a cause of some confusion since it has been interpreted in different ways in relation to its companion function . |
| 16 | Senior American officials were quick to dismiss it as propaganda which would not even warrant a formal reply since it had been issued through Tass . |
| 17 | Cumbria has been included in the Leukaemia Research Fund data collection study since it began in 1984 . |
| 18 | The indium-111 leukocyte technique is particularly suitable for the present study since it utilises the homing properties of neutrophils in response to specific chemoattractants . |
| 19 | This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house . |
| 20 | It should be realized that this change of tactics in the gilt-edged market is consistent with the objective of greater competitiveness since it allowed greater freedom for market forces to determine prices , and therefore yields , on government stock and close substitutes . |
| 21 | Many Third World states regarded it as a blatantly unbalanced proposal since it did not include an offer by Soviet leaders to close down their military and naval facilities in South Yemen and Ethiopia . |
| 22 | He said the Kenton Road unit was vital to the 30 adults who have regularly relied on it for help since it began as a pilot project two years ago . |
| 23 | The conversion of the drug in the present case seems to fall within the mischief of the Act since it renders the cocaine suitable for smoking . |
| 24 | This weekend , senior opposition figures are beginning to admit , off the record , that in electing John Smith instead of , say , Gordon Brown or Ken Livingstone , Labour has possibly made its greatest error since it passed over Dennis Healey in favour of Michael Foot . |
| 25 | The town 's new Mayor , only the second since it gained the town title , spent the day at the fire station to learn about their work . |
| 26 | This was not a problem for HARPY since it represented and recognised complete utterances . |
| 27 | ‘ It wo n't have been on a weighing machine since it left the village where it was grown . ’ |
| 28 | One use for an optical aid for pupils with tunnel vision that is designed on this principle is for mobility since it helps to increase the extent of the visual panorama . |
| 29 | Mr Paddy Ashdown , the party 's leader , said the proposal was unique amongst the recent flood of proposals to reduce traffic congestion since it combined offering disincentives to using a car alongside positive benefits for those choosing not to do so . |
| 30 | Wheal Jane has used flotation since it started up in 1971 , as the deposits the mine works contain a lot of very fine cassiterite particles . |