Example sentences of "[noun pl] since it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it would be wise to pander a little to his whims since it seemed he was prone to these Viking tendencies . |
| 2 | The lexical look-up technique is preferable to statistical methods since it does not have a built-in error rate and guarantees lexical output . |
| 3 | My understanding of the case was that I 'd not yet found a remedy to cover the fibroid as well as everything else so I chose Phosphorus LM1 from the rubric bleeding fibroids since it covered her fears and complemented the Arsenicum . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , latex is not suitable for borders since it dries too quickly and is not durable for exposed and vulnerable areas . |
| 5 | LH-S bought media for Cussons ' Imperial Leather and Pearl soap brands since it absorbed Allen Brady & Marsh , Cussons ' agency of 20 years , last March . |
| 6 | It is certainly true that it is worth ‘ pooling ’ sovereignty in some areas since it makes more sense to do this than to act independently . |
| 7 | The potential for a reader 's motivation , involvement , and reward can be seen in books like Raymond Briggs ' The snowman ( with its many tell-tale gaps since it has no text ) and Susan Cooper 's The dark is rising novels . |
| 8 | It would also have many applications in Third World countries since it uses rubber tyres in both modes and thereby has an incline capability of ⅙ This means that in Third World countries instead of flattening the mountains and filling the valleys to make them level to one could follow the contours of the countryside and enormously reduce civil engineering costs . |
| 9 | This is believed to be the first time that an attempt has been made to compile a complete statistical record of Soviet economic development assistance to the less developed countries since it started on a formal basis in 1954 ; by 1983 such assistance had gone to a total of 57 countries . |
| 10 | Frost also influences netting with both purse and long-nets since it becomes very much more difficult to peg the nets to the ground . |
| 11 | This method may be used as a check on the reasonableness of valuations on other bases since it gives an indication of the minimum likely value . |
| 12 | The unfavourable prospect for exports is perhaps the most damaging of Africa 's economic weaknesses since it implies continued dependence on unstable , and on the whole , unfavourable commodity markets . |
| 13 | The Irish national lottery has created 19 millionaires since it started five years ago . |
| 14 | This would require approval by national parliaments since it involved an amendment to the 1957 Treaty of Rome [ see pp. 15951-59 ] . |
| 15 | Hence sentence 10 does not have a number of parses since it exhausted the storage of the LISP system , having already allocated 25 MBytes . |
| 16 | Shares in Eurotunnel fell a further 50p to close at 600p , making a 15 per cent drop in the Anglo-French venture 's stock market value in the two days since it disclosed a 50 per cent rise in the cost of the tunnel to at least £7bn . |
| 17 | On the other hand , this lower molecular weight is an advantage in some applications since it means that extruded sheet thermoforms more easily than cast sheet . ’ |
| 18 | Commenting on another storming quarter — figures , page seven — Microsoft Corp , whose third quarter earnings of $0.80 a share were above consensus analyst estimates of $0.78 for the period , warned that fourth quarter growth in profits would be less impressive — ‘ One of the things that 's different in this fourth quarter is we do n't have this kicker product , the icing on the cake , ’ said Microsoft investor relations chief Raymond Ferguson ; Microsoft said it shipped a record-breaking 2m MS-DOS 6 retail upgrade copies in the two weeks since it hit the market , but the company said they would be pleased if fourth-quarter revenues rose by half the roughly 20% sequential quarterly rate of recent years , when Microsoft has benefited from upgrade versions of Windows 3.0 , MS-DOS 5 and then Windows 3.1 ; it is still likely to see its first billion dollar quarter this time ; during the fiscal third quarter , sales of applications , which accounted for 61% of total revenues in the period , leaped 63% over year-ago levels to $580m , and Microsoft ended the quarter with $2,000m in cash ; shipment of Windows NT is on schedule for late June following a late May unveiling , the firm said . |
| 19 | The Whetstone Lane advice centre whose aims include trying to reduce unplanned teenage pregnancies , has come under attack from anti-abortionists since it opened in January . |
| 20 | She stared at it now , hardly able to believe that it was two and a half years since it had been taken . |
| 21 | It is some years since it became generally if reluctantly accepted that sport and politics can not be separated . |
| 22 | It is not so many years since it broke away . ’ |
| 23 | Carden is Europe 's most northerly commercial vineyard and in the four years since it opened has already established itself in the wine market . |
| 24 | It was pointed out , in Chapter 1 , that such a defence will have conservative implications since it puts the moral patients at the mercy of those interests , whatever they might be , that prevail amongst moral agents in a society . |
| 25 | Such a model is of interest to geographers since it deals with man-environment relationships . |
| 26 | It is dependent on the stability of existing states of affairs since it assumes that future situations will be predictable replicas of those in the past . |
| 27 | Clarify can immediately lay claim to the widest breath of platforms since it runs client/server fashion on PCs , Macs and Unix workstations supporting Windows , MacOS and Motif , all in native mode , along with Sybase . |
| 28 | This section of the manual should be read by LIFESPAN Managers since it describes the mechanisms to control and optimise the online/offline file store usage for LIFESPAN and perform the removal of modules no longer required in their magnetic form . |
| 29 | It has sold another £28m of assets and has now pulled in £70m from disposals since it took over the Brookmount property group in August . |
| 30 | In relation to , for example , technological systems , design posits a means of overcoming control problems since it posits a means of knowing-practice which incorporates the technical as a moment and which can itself thus internally incorporate social requirements ( no other mode of knowledge practice can do this ) . |