Example sentences of "since it [is] [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 This trend may in fact be more marked , since it is acknowledged that victims may be considerably reluctant to report , and police to record , offences of violence committed in the home .
2 Since it is accepted that the consensus varies according to time and place , it is not clear how one distinguishes between a legitimate consensus and a deviant subculture .
3 Since the period in question has been one of economic growth , and since it is argued that the demand for temporary workers grows faster than the demand for labour as a whole in periods of rising economic activity , our findings are particularly noteworthy .
4 Since one of these — the LFS — spans a period of economic growth , and since it is argued that the demand for temporary workers grows faster than demand for labour as a whole in periods of rising economic activity , this finding is particularly striking .
5 Foreign trade is excluded from consideration , since it is assumed that such trade will not affect the value of production , but merely affect its material form .
6 Maximising the value of the firm , however , does not entail any kind of trade-off between short- and long-term profits , since it is assumed that the firm 's present value will reflect the future proceeds of current investment .
7 However , this method should only be used in the circumstances described , for the following reason : since it is assumed that such files are not readable , they do not appear in any of the Quality Assurance processes or in hard copy outputs showing module contents .
8 A warm bed and an alarm clock for company often work since it is said that the clock 's ticking sounds like mother 's heartbeat .
9 Presumably , since it is said that she lived to 127 , her sixties would be equivalent to our thirties or forties .
10 Secondly , a wage-change variable is included in addition to a price variable since it is hypothesised that workers may seek to unionise not only to defend existing standards of living but also to attempt to improve upon them .
11 This is an area of increasing concern , since it is feared that we may well run out of useful antibiotics , which would leave us defenceless in the face of overwhelming attack by resistant organisms .
12 They are rarely found on inland waters , although , since it is established that some of our winter visitors migrate over the interior of the county , such records are likely from time to time .
13 To say this is , it should be noted , is to make a theological point : since it is held that God is the creator , so that what is natural , and what is also found to be the case , must accord with what is God 's intention .
14 However , since it is proposed that there may be an association between pain and tissue damage , let us examine the facts .
15 LDOCE is of particular interest , since it is claimed that its entries are defined using a controlled vocabulary of around 2,000 words , and that the entries have a simple and regular syntax [ Boguraev & briscoe , 1989 ] .
16 They also reduce land loss , since it is estimated that channels with 50 per cent tree and shrub cover on both banks require only approximately half the width for a given volume of bankfull flood-water speeding through the channel , compared to treeless brooks which erode out into the adjacent fields .
17 This finding may be important , since it is known that chemical modification of lysine amino groups of the apoprotein may interfere with the specific LDL receptor binding and hence clearance of LDL ( Gonen et al , 1981 ; Kim & Kurup , 1982 ; Witzum et al , 1982 ) .
18 It has often been said that the family kept the process secret , but this seems unlikely , since it is known that pearl ash was used to secure the transparency .
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