Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] since it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet unemployment undoubtedly helped to speed up the Liberal decline and Labour rise since it highlighted the rigidity of the immediate post-war Liberal Party which was clearly unwilling to adapt its policies and ideas on free trade to the new demands of the age . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ The Poles , Mexicans and Brazilians are all treating it as their final Olympic trials and though at this moment there are no pacemakers , they 'll all be watching each other and it could be the most interesting race since it began in 1981 . ’ |
| 4 | At the beginning of the 1990s the spot price for uranium stood at under $10/lb , the lowest real price since it became a commodity and $20 below the official floor price for contract sales . |
| 5 | The conditions of the fifties meant that it was natural " for praise to be heaped on to democratic politics since it seemed to be doing the job very nicely . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There were entire countries , reigns , religions , philosophical systems , centuries , species and schools of art contained in its files , which had been of no interest whatsoever to the human race since it emptied its records , museums and libraries into their Al dump bin . |
| 8 | Dr Ed Dart , director of research at ICI Seeds , which has become a major international organisation since it started in 1985 , plays these down . |
| 9 | And yet the amniote egg is a curious phenomenon since it arrived , as in other examples , before the environmental need for it arose . |
| 10 | Celtic Crescent was n't a crescent , and it was a long time since it had been Celtic . |
| 11 | The Commissioners answers came in the form of a set of proposals which represented the most fundamental reshaping of the common Agricultural policy since it began 30 years ago . |
| 12 | The reasons for this puzzling association of money wage changes and real-wage changes in classical theory are not altogether clear , though we speculated in Chapter 2 that the influence of the quantity theory of money probably played an important part since it anchored the price level to the quantity of money in circulation , releasing the money-wage bargain to determine real wages . |
| 13 | The figures are part of Barratt 's continuing recovery since it chalked up losses of £106 million for 1990-91 , but the stock market was unimpressed and the shares slipped 3p to 133p . |
| 14 | The result was a considerable achievement since it took place against a background of strong competition in mature markets and overcapacity in the European agricultural sector . |
| 15 | Trotsky refused to describe it as a ruling class since it did not own the means of production : it had ‘ neither stocks nor bonds . |
| 16 | This debate has wider implications for the study of political science since it emphasised major features of the process of governmental decision-making — the plurality of values of participants in policy-making , the plurality of actors involved , the emphasis upon perceptions rather than ‘ objective interests ’ and the fact that policy outcomes seldom reflect the values and preferences of one group . |
| 17 | He called for sensible and non-sectarian dialogue to solve a conflict between the government and judiciary , ostensibly over the constitutionality of a beer tax increase , which had plunged the country into its most serious constitutional crisis since it returned to democracy in 1982 . |
| 18 | The secretary-managership of Leeds City had become vacant on the retirement of Scott Walford at the end of the club 's most disastrous season since it entered the Second Division eight years before , and the public looked with keen interest to see what effect the new man 's ‘ shrewd judgement and tactful management ’ ( Yorkshire Post ) would have . |
| 19 | Commenting on its figures , LSI Logic Corp reports that net profit in the first quarter exceeded net in any single quarter in the company 's 12-year history ; it also surpassed total net profit in all of 1991 ; it said the improved financial results reflect a significant turnaround since it restructured its operations in the third quarter of 1992 . |
| 20 | She made several ‘ women 's ’ films for Rank , including STREET CORNER ( 1953 ) about the women police in Chelsea , which she always cited as a particularly enjoyable experience since it involved working with a mainly female crew and cast . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was a very neatly packaged piece of disinformation planted on Pincher that carried added credibility since it did not come from a government source but from an opposition Privy Councillor . |
| 24 | It 's use for tasks such as stylistic analysis was recognised but considered to be of only minor interest since it did not consider the ‘ important ’ questions , such as how humans are able to process language . |