Example sentences of "[was/were] before the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the relevant facts were before the two magistrates who were weighing them up to decide whether it was more likely than not that there was prejudice and unfairness that led to an abuse of the process . |
| 2 | We have always in Czechoslovakia been proud of being Europeans , as we were before the First World War and between the wars . |
| 3 | There were before the election Conservatives who wanted a Tory defeat in the hope of a subsequent reconstruction under a new , more Thatcherite leader — who would restore the purity which Mr Patten was being allowed to destroy . |
| 4 | Even the widespread belief that decisions on industrial location are ( or were before the introduction of the uniform business rate ) heavily influenced by the level of local taxation has been undermined by a series of research reports ( including Crawford , Fothergill and Monk ( 1985 ) which was commissioned by the Department of the Environment ) . |
| 5 | Lesbians and gays are expressing themselves differently from the way they were before the Clause , but they are still saying as openly and as proudly as ever that they want the boundaries changed . |
| 6 | Despite these difficulties there are almost as many children now attending primary schools as there were before the invasion , and many teachers are carrying on without regular salaries . |
| 7 | By the afternoon of 4 August , leading formations of Kluck 's First Army were before the great city of Liège , with its ring of six major and six minor forts . |
| 8 | The inevitable result is that the more adventurous or less safe ways of operating public transport aircraft are far less common now than they were before the days of flight recorders . |
| 9 | Cognito , the UK two-way paging service re-born after a management buyout last year , has got coverage and subscriber numbers back to around the level they were before the service 's first incarnation folded . |
| 10 | Knights is opposed to specialist training to a greater extent than the Review writers ever were before the war . |
| 11 | This shows that in well over eighty percent there were fewer tumours at the three month cystoscopy than there were before the B G C was instilled . |
| 12 | " At the east end modern windows are made to the kitchen and chamber , over which are yet to be seen part of three antient lancet windows of the chancel , the center one somewhat higher and larger than the other two ; which were before the alterations deep and narrow . |
| 13 | There are at least as many recognisably different " schools " of linguistics throughout the world as there were before the " Chomsky revolution " . |
| 14 | This involves the parties being returned to their positions as they were before the contract , i. e. the return of the price to the buyer and the goods to the seller . |
| 15 | The Uthwatt Committee noted that there were only three cases in which betterment had actually been paid under the Planning Acts , and all these were before the 1932 Act introduced a provision for the deferment of payment until the increased value had actually been realised either by sale or lease or by change of use . |
| 16 | The International Atomic Energy Agency 's marine environment laboratory says that parts of the Gulf are cleaner than they were before the war , although there are still heavily contaminated spots . |
| 17 | Do we have the constituencies as were before the additional six seats or do we continue with the constituencies with the additional seats . |
| 18 | But Wales manager Terry Yorath insisted : ‘ Our chances of going to the United States now are as good as they were before the game . |
| 19 | Eight men were before the court charged with conspiracy to cause criminal damage with intent to endanger life arising from the injury to PC Robinson on the A183 near Sunderland 's Pennywell Estate . |
| 20 | The government 's er oil revenues have gone up by £345 million , er that 's an average of £7.1 million a day , since the Gulf crisis started , and er they 're now running at over £13 million a day more than they were before the crisis commenced . |
| 21 | It 's staging its own marches to counter the official demonstration and it 's changing some street names back to what they were before the revolution . |
| 22 | They beat Malvern Vale who were another erm of the promotion contenders , three nil today , so Maidenhead and ourselves are in the same relationship as we were before the game . |
| 23 | This was before the 1988 Licensing Act which brought all-day opening . |
| 24 | That was before the running street-battles of the weekend , when a demonstration around the church was broken up by a police riot which lasted five hours . |
| 25 | Hopes for a ‘ green lung ’ in the heart of the city are fading , particularly since the announcement that Mercedes Benz is to build a huge service centre on Potsdamer Platz , dashing hopes that it might be left as a park or rebuilt as the commercial hub of the city it was before the war . |
| 26 | After all , though the gains were impressive , the market is back only to where it was before the Budget exactly a month earlier . |
| 27 | A few weeks later , Arnold Grayson , the Commission 's research director , was before the House of Commons Select Committee on the Environment . |
| 28 | The provisions , discussed more fully below , allowing a departure from all or part of the National Curriculum in certain cases or where certain individuals are concerned , were introduced when the bill was before the Commons in early 1988 . |
| 29 | This was before the days of the National Health Service . |
| 30 | ‘ That was before the war , ’ we would hear . |