Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] since it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This central finding of the study was intensely controversial since it implied , firstly , that the USSR showed signs of fundamental weakness and was less of a ‘ threat ’ and , secondly , it appeared to run counter to the view of some econometricians that developing countries , especially those purchasing advanced foreign technology in large quantities , must eventually catch up . |
| 2 | The middle of the passage was , however , rather different since it concerned a motorcyclist 's deliberations about the nature of empiricism , and it was considerably more difficult to understand . |
| 3 | The use of reference selling in industrial marketing can be highly successful since it reduces the perceived risk for a potential buyer . |
| 4 | Traditionally Asiatics had been employed east of Suez and hired on " Asiatic Articles of Agreement " , a practice which seems to have been generally acceptable since it involved sailing chiefly in Indian and Far Eastern waters . |
| 5 | In fact , these provisions were largely ineffective since it proved extremely difficult to determine with any certainty which properties had increased in value as a result of a scheme ( or of works carried out under a scheme ) or , where there was a reasonable degree of certainty , how much of the increase in value was directly attributable to the scheme and how much to other factors . |
| 6 | Like other Ayurvedic preparations the drug is effective , which is not surprising since it contains almost double the quantity of aspirin used in normal aspirin tablets . |
| 7 | Their colonization of Brazil was even more momentous since it opened up a source which during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries led the world in the production of gold . |
| 8 | However , what follows is an attempt to give powerful currency to the notion that such an addition to the list of significant textual features is nonetheless crucial since it raises our awareness of the cultural paradigm within which our critical perspectives are themselves shaped , and goes some way toward making visible an otherwise invisible dimension of our teaching . |
| 9 | The new tariff also made payment of war debts by European countries to the USA more difficult since it prevented them from selling more goods to America than they bought from the new world . |
| 10 | While this makes it easier for the acoustic-phonetic component to guarantee the inclusion of the target phoneme , the task of the syntax/semantic component is made considerably more difficult since it has to choose from many more word candidates . |
| 11 | ‘ Proponents of island driving argue that extending the globally best interpretation is more efficient since it approaches the recognition goal in the obvious , direct manner . |
| 12 | This would also fit the pottery associated with Forum I which is hardly surprising since it comes from the make-up levels and includes residual material , as in the reeded rim carinated bowls , a rustic jar and flagon tops . |
| 13 | As an index it is rather unsatisfactory since it tells us very little about how active a person is or what he believes … |
| 14 | Rollin 's own review ( 1981 : 96–105 ) is also useful since it covers tests for carcinogens , mutogens , and for effects upon embryo development ( teratogenicity ) . |
| 15 | But the general implications of the table are also important since it demonstrates the relative concentration of supply . |
| 16 | The last is probably the most important since it has been observed time and again that , during constitutional treatment , old symptoms reminiscent of previous states of health tend to recur , until a state of health can sometimes eventually be achieved where the only illnesses experienced are those common to childhood , such as coughs , colds , sore throats and skin rashes . |
| 17 | His press soubriquet ‘ Sunny Jim ’ was rather misplaced since it concealed a somewhat touchy disposition , just as Henderson 's unwontedly benign term of endearment , ‘ Uncle Arthur ’ , had been in the past . |
| 18 | As promised last week , there 's also a four-page report on slimming which I 've found really interesting since it involves one of the finalists in our recent 16+ Model Of The Year competition . |
| 19 | We 've been really quiet since it started . |
| 20 | This remedy is particularly interesting since it applies to public sector suppliers ( such as utilities ) as well as private business . |
| 21 | Moreover , it is anything but unplanned since it depends on considerable state involvement , promotion , and subsidy . |
| 22 | This process of filtering and condensing is both practical and intellectually useful since it forces you to reduce the bulk of words and yet preserve the essential meaning of the text . |
| 23 | This is particularly important since it locates a mode of production as an essential totality , and is thus not dependent upon this or that outstanding feature to arrive at a determination . |
| 24 | The range is geographically important since it forms part of the main watershed of northern England . |
| 25 | The three measures of the extent to which reproductive success varies within each sex are fundamentally similar though the last is the most convenient since it offers a measure of the potential change in fitness between generations , relative to the average ( see Crow , 1958 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They assert that though their ‘ non decision-making situation ’ ( ‘ preventing certain grievances from developing into full fledged issues ’ ) is not observable , being a non-event , nevertheless , the non-decision-making process is indeed observable since it consists of the mobilisation of bias around a latent issue , both of which are discernible . |
| 28 | This form is still completely general since it has , in effect , simply used the coordinate freedom ( 6.7 ) . |
| 29 | In addition to the two avant-garde poles represented for him by Schoenberg and Stravinsky , he has a minor category consisting of music that makes use of materials ‘ which fell by the wayside … waste products and blind spots … all that which did not fit properly into the laws of historical movement ’ ; the ‘ anachronistic quality ’ of this material ‘ is not wholly obsolete since it has outwitted the historical dynamic ’ . |
| 30 | Automatic defrost is most desirable since it eliminates human error and is energy efficient . |