Example sentences of "[vb pp] before [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basis upon which damages may be claimed before domestic courts for breach of Articles 85 and 86 must be no less favourable than the damages recoverable for infringement of comparable provisions of domestic law . |
| 2 | Obviously there are some serious considerations to be resolved before such a lottery is introduced . |
| 3 | However , there are a number of basic research tasks that need to be resolved before this technique can be widely applied . |
| 4 | It is essential that the problems I have identified this afternoon are resolved before this Bill leaves this House . |
| 5 | Starting with Leicester , these were all on air by mid-1968 and 12 more were added before 1970 . |
| 6 | Molla Gurani 's as kazasker ( an enlargement is given on p. 50 of the plates in Unver ) , for example , can not have been added before 845 , when he first came to the Ottoman lands , and was almost certainly added after 855 , when he held the kazaskerlik probably for the first and only time ( cf. below , pp. 169–71 ) , so that one can not be certain of the date when , or the circumstances in which , any of them was added . |
| 7 | The directors said the disposal of non-core businesses would continue with the full benefits of its shift in activities not expected before 1991 . |
| 8 | A decision is not expected before next year . |
| 9 | Alan Winter , deputy managing director of Legal & General 's property arm , says market balance in the Square Mile can not be expected before 1994–95 . |
| 10 | Some pleaded guilty while others were incriminated by the children 's evidence , and two days later a dozen were hanged before thousands on the hill overlooking Lancaster Castle . |
| 11 | It is difficult not to notice that the ‘ bundle of sticks ’ is reminiscent of the Roman fasces , the bundle of rods with a protruding axe-head , carried before Roman consuls as a sign of the state authority of Rome , and adopted by Mussolini as a symbol of the movement he led to power in 1922 , whence the word ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 12 | They require urgent attention by the C E C and must be addressed before any talks are conducted with the T & g . |
| 13 | Capitalism , if the labour market was to operate , needed a workforce which was both mobile and wage responsive , and this meant an interim period in which old forms of control were eroded before newer and more appropriate forms of social and industrial control had fully emerged to take their place . |
| 14 | Similarly , if the gravitational mass of the proton were significantly different , one would not have had stars in which these nucleides could have been built up , and if the initial expansion of the universe had been slightly smaller or slightly greater , the universe would either have collapsed before such stars could have evolved or would have expanded so rapidly that stars would never have been formed by gravitational condensation . |
| 15 | The initial pouring had partly cooled before another crucible was added , leaving a crack around the base . |
| 16 | It is not clear why the theft or robbery count should be considered before that of handling except that the theft or robbery must have come first in time . |
| 17 | Since CMV retinitis in immunocompetent patients remains exceptionally rare and present antiviral therapy is toxic , confirmatory testing should be considered before such treatment is instituted . |
| 18 | Bias and confounding should be considered before complicated statistical procedures to assess the role of chance . |
| 19 | Local authority planning policies might require an applicant to demonstrate first that a proposed development required a coastal location and , if this was the case , to show that recyclable coastal sites had been considered before undeveloped or partly developed coastal sites were targeted . |
| 20 | If this were not done , then many second best , third best , etc matches in the high scoring region could be considered before any theories worked their way across the low scoring regions . ’ |
| 21 | The North Korean side presented information on 12 Japanese wives , but said that home visits could only be considered before full normalization of relations if the talks progressed smoothly . |
| 22 | Corey Akino has survived six previous coup attempts ; the most serious was last December when more than a hundred people died and six hundred were wounded before loyal troops finally crushed the revolt . |
| 23 | So that in total you 're saying twenty nine thousand dwellings , one way or another are committed before nineteen ninety six . |
| 24 | Standardisation is reflected in the choice of a single approach ( the PWR ) , then in the selection of two power levels ( 900 and 1300 MWe ) , and finally by the construction of series of practically identical units : after the first six 900-MWe units , designed before 1973 , the remaining 46 units that will be in service in 1990 are in only four series , two for the 900-M units and two for the 1300-MW units . |
| 25 | The experience acquired in the development and construction of the first six 900-MWe units ( Fessenheim and Bugey ) , designed before 1973 , was turned to good account in the design of the 18 identical units built at Tricastin , Gravelines , Dampierre , and Le Blayais . |
| 26 | The judge was satisfied that the applicant had ‘ a sufficiently arguable case , that he has a sufficient interest ’ and in the event the question of the applicant 's locus standi was not pursued before this court . |
| 27 | The problems of bulk transport had been solved before 1880 , with the coming of the steamship and the railway , and it only remained to spread and perfect them . |
| 28 | ‘ 'T WAS like nothing I 've ever felt before either . |
| 29 | For perhaps three seconds guilt was all they did feel , the simple , shocked guilt they would have felt before any adult . |
| 30 | The defendant , it seems to their Lordships , would in those circumstances have to be rearraigned before another court and if he again pleaded not guilty would have to be retried . |