Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been struck by the fact that in June 1873 two hundred Deputes of the French Parliament gathered before the Blessed Sacrament to consecrate their country to the Sacred Heart of Jesus . |
| 2 | ‘ a little , red-faced , sly-looking ginger-beer seller ’ , the defendant in a ‘ brawling ’ case heard before the Arches Court in Doctor 's Commons . |
| 3 | Application and assessment placed before approval panel |
| 4 | More precisely , the infinitive evokes an event , and to , the movement from an instant situated before this event up to the instant at which the event begins . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , this sentence has the effect of making the click come before the shutting , thus reversing the normal precedence of cause to effect . |
| 6 | Two problems are thus solved at once : it becomes clear that terminology does not refer only to grammar , and the reasons for the terminology come before the terminology itself . |
| 7 | The Abuna , Petros , the head of the church , rode on a mule with his throne carried before him . |
| 8 | Sarella swallowed the delicious concoction placed before her without tasting it . |
| 9 | The Queen 's Bench and Chancery Divisions are no longer distinct courts , though , as a matter of working convenience , matters which involve mainly the Common Law come before the Queen 's Bench ; those which largely involve Equity come before the Chancery Division . |
| 10 | I did n't have that excuse because there 's a car parked before the turning |
| 11 | In the work on tragedy done before Wagner 's Beethoven Schopenhauer 's influence is less evident . |
| 12 | In any case , no piece made before 1945 may be legally exported , nor can any work of art by a deceased artist . |
| 13 | It follows that damages recoverable by the estate under the 1934 Act in the case of deaths occurring on or after that date are limited to financial loss suffered before his death , to damages for pain and suffering sustained by the deceased before his death and to funeral expenses . |
| 14 | Each fish is caught , the hook carefully removed and the weight noted before release . |
| 15 | In 1887 he was the first witness called before the select commission on forestry . |
| 16 | ORACLE PRESIDENT OUSTED BEFORE VERSION 7 LAUNCH |
| 17 | As Edmund is unlikely to have issued law in which he exhorted himself , these provisions may be no more than a programme laid before the full witan , and perhaps preached to it . |
| 18 | Since those vessels were to be deprived of the right to engage in fishing as from 1 April 1989 , the companies in question challenged the compatibility of Part II of the Act of 1988 with Community law by means of an application for judicial review brought before the High Court of Justice of England and Wales , Queen 's Bench Division , on 16 December 1988 . |
| 19 | Miles of salt marsh stretched before us , reaching to the shores of the River Severn . |
| 20 | It was common practice , for example , for a brothel-keeper brought before a court to claim that he or she belonged to a privileged nationality . |
| 21 | Opposition crumbled before him and the path he followed was strewn with gold . |
| 22 | The most complex job was to establish what parents ( and staff ) though about the way partnership worked before any ‘ action ’ began . |
| 23 | Before their eyes an immense picture , or series of pictures , gradually unwound : not just one scene , but the entire history of the shipwreck passed before them . |
| 24 | What is needed is not exactly a particular type of condition specified before the present occasion , but a slightly different one , which did indeed obtain previously when the wipers started . |
| 25 | In every fixed date action commenced before 1 October 1990 the summons issued fixes a date for the attendance of the parties , called the return day . |
| 26 | The justices were ordered to have this statute read before them in their courts and henceforth it was to be firmly kept and obeyed . |
| 27 | Mrs Smith told the appeal judges that last July , in a ruling in a similar case , Lord Morton awarded £17,000 to a couple whose baby died from brain damage suffered before birth . |
| 28 | In a later case , Lord Morton took the opposite view and awarded £17,000 to a couple whose baby died from brain damage suffered before birth . |
| 29 | Neither provision featured in the draft text prepared before the Eleventh Session of the Hague Conference . |
| 30 | Another 7% had a mass palpated before imaging , giving a total of 87% of cases that were diagnosed clinically . |