Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actual local authority completions in North Tyneside between 1974 and 1986 totalled 5473 , of which all but 639 were completed before 1981 and thus reflect pre-1979 capital programmes . |
| 2 | The notion of violence within an urban context is reinforced by some of the titles although these paintings were completed before the riots on the Meadowell estate , near Chevallier 's studio , erupted . |
| 3 | Hinde House was a fairly typical school in that there had been a recognition of the need to relate to the ‘ World of Work ’ , ‘ Employers ’ , ‘ Further and Higher Education ’ , ‘ Preparation for Adult Life ’ and many of the other banner headings which at different times were placed before us by non-school organisations . |
| 4 | When the true facts were placed before the editor of the Daily Mirror he refused to acknowledge them and refused to correct the inaccurate , misleading and distorted reporting … in his newspaper . ’ |
| 5 | Meat , bread , and beer were placed before Oliver , and his new friend urged him to satisfy his hunger . |
| 6 | Poached eggs were placed before them . |
| 7 | Under the proposals , which were placed before the Executive Yuan for approval , rules on imports from the mainland were relaxed . |
| 8 | Eight practice trials ( one for each question-answer combination ) were given before the experiment proper , and the stimuli and questions for these are shown at the bottom of the second page of the aforementioned question sheet . |
| 9 | Antibiotics ( cefotetan and metronidazol ) were given before and after ERCP in patients with cholangitis . |
| 10 | A further thirteen lots listed in the catalogue were withdrawn before the sale . |
| 11 | But it 's only available if your contributions were withdrawn before the first of June nineteen seventy three . |
| 12 | but it 's only available for contributions that were withdrawn before the first of June nineteen seventy three and you know if you did n't meet that particular date then the only other way of of covering gaps is which is far more expensive . |
| 13 | Of the remaining 63 patients six were withdrawn before the end of the trial period for reasons given in table II . |
| 14 | cAMP concentrations were acetylated before measurement to increase the sensitivity of the assay . |
| 15 | The final straw which induced almost total panic in control was the large proportion of late entries ; about 10% were received before the official closing date , a further 30% before the weekend and nearly 60% on the day . |
| 16 | When passing the 1976 act , it might have been that no particular attention had been paid to a situation in which injuries were sustained before birth , but parliament had clearly stated that a person had to sustain injuries and die from them before relatives could claim damages . |
| 17 | The parents contended that though the injuries were sustained before birth , the child continued to suffer them on birth and up to his death . |
| 18 | It 's really come to the fore and has been seen as a political force for a much shorter time than , say , a hundred years , and I am wonder if , in that short time , because that 's how we can judge things , I mean presumably you were aware of the way women were treated before the Women 's Movement started raising it 's profile , and you 're aware of the way things are now , do you see much change ? |
| 19 | At the eastern end of this wall was a caustic bosh in which all horse-drawn vehicles complete with their under-carriages were boshed before entering the shop for repair . |
| 20 | Dr. Lamont writes that " Islay has no relics of the Palaeolithic age , but traces of Mesolithic settlement , principally of " kitchen middens " of small mobile communities , which are found in the vicinity of the 25 foot raised beaches " which were formed before 2500 BC when the sea was roughly at its present level , and says " It was , however , in the New Stone Age ( 2700–1300 BC ) that men took effective possession , pasturing their domestic herds , practising a simple agriculture , and interring their noble dead in impressive chambered cairns . |
| 21 | Henceforth , it is said , the rich and the noble are those descended from the creatures who were formed before Nu Kua tired of her task — the men of yellow earth — whereas the poor and the lowly are descendants of the cord-made men — the men of mud . ’ |
| 22 | Supple considers the modern form to have originated with the Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships in 1762 , but its example was not followed by the Royal Exchange for another twenty years and only two new life companies were formed before 1800 . |
| 23 | How did people think that prebiotic organic compounds were formed before this discovery in outer space ? |
| 24 | In our series three cases of hydrocephaly were diagnosed before delivery , but another five lethal malformations were not ( trisomy 18 , Vater syndrome , hypoplastic left heart syndrome , Saldini-Noonan syndrome , and sirenomelia ) . |
| 25 | But if a voidable disposition were registered before being avoided , I would doubt whether the register could be rectified under paragraph ( d ) , even if the disposition were voidable on account of fraud . |
| 26 | Westmacott and Sgt. Deacon were scrambled before dawn as an unidentified ‘ plot ’ had appeared on the radar , approaching St. Paul 's Bay fast and low . |
| 27 | The earlier figures measured the number of cases which were instituted before a magistrate or a justice of the peace . |
| 28 | But Irvine 's job boost comes at the expense of Workington , where Volvo 's bus operations were located before the transfer to Scotland as part of a rationalisation . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Three swords and two sceptres were carried before the English king at his coronation in 1189 : the sceptre with the cross probably signifying power and justice , the sceptre with the dove , equity and mercy , while the three swords may have been associated singly with authority , mercy and justice . |