Example sentences of "before the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The archetype here is Guillaume Apollinaire , special pleader for modernism before the first World War . |
| 2 | Cover with Agryl P17 before the first frosts . |
| 3 | Trim them back , dead-head regularly and bring in before the first frosts and you should have flowers for months to come |
| 4 | Subtracting these 200 msec from the 550 msec by which the RP preceded the movement , Libet concluded that the neural activity associated with an apparently voluntary act began some 350 msec before the first moment at which the subject was aware of his intention to act . |
| 5 | William Blogg , whose brewery disappeared just before the First World War , is one of a whole host of East End brewers whose names live on , even if they no longer brew . |
| 6 | The company made at least one take-over of another East End brewery before the First World War , John Furze and Co 's St George brewery , Church Lane , Whitechapel , in 1901 . |
| 7 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 8 | Before the First World War the impact of the new colonial governments on this pattern of agriculture was extremely limited . |
| 9 | What evidence is there of this kind of behaviour at football matches before the First World War or in the inter-war period ? |
| 10 | But do these totals prove that hooligan behaviour of a kind broadly comparable with the present day was widespread before the First World War ? |
| 11 | Two hours for the approach march to the enemy 's encampment and everyone to be in position before the first hints of dawn . |
| 12 | Those who donated this amount — a princely sum before the First World War — had the right to select a baptismal name . |
| 13 | Be sure to apply before the first of the calendar month when you want the rebate to start . |
| 14 | BY electing new and reform-minded leaders , East Germany 's Communist party hopes to have won a breathing space in its battle for credibility and survival , six months before the first free elections are due to be held . |
| 15 | BY electing new and reform-minded leaders , East Germany 's Communist party hopes to have won a breathing space in its battle for credibility and survival , six months before the first free elections are due to be held . |
| 16 | The first quarter was in 58.6sec , and this 17 years before the first four-minute mile . |
| 17 | Sometimes called the ‘ Jazz Modern ’ style , International Modern was a term coined in the United States to refer to the new architectural style of the twentieth century , which architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius were creating before the First World War . |
| 18 | Tsarist Russia before the First World War held that position , earning a third of its foreign exchange from grain sales . |
| 19 | The first lot of American research institutes , just before the first world war , was more politically innocent . |
| 20 | Before the first world war , and even after it , the rich were notable not just for having money but for having the leisure to enjoy it . |
| 21 | But a concern with the political unrest preceding the Civil War caused the third part , De Cive , to be prematurely ‘ ripened and plucked ’ before the first two , De Corpore ( ‘ On Body ’ , 1655 ) and De Homine ( ‘ On Man ’ , 1657 ) . |
| 22 | There were clearly changes occurring , and the borderlines between social classes , never very clear at the best of times , were probably less precise than they had been before the First World War — though class barriers were by no means collapsing in the real world of health , education and social opportunity . |
| 23 | Some have maintained that the Liberal Party was being rapidly undermined before the First World War and that its decline was almost inevitable , others , however , assume that it was the First World War which was responsible for the decline of a vapid Liberal Party — the divisions within Liberal ranks creating the political vacuum into which the Labour Party slipped . |
| 24 | For many its decline began before the First World War , as a consequence of its inability to maintain the trade-union and working-class support in the face of the challenge of the Labour Party . |
| 25 | On balance the evidence suggests that the Liberal decline began before the First World War , but there is no denying that the war speeded up this process . |
| 26 | We got him to come and fix it before the first session . |
| 27 | In the conversations , he talks of preparing Mahler 's Fifth Symphony over two years of play-throughs , rehearsals , and recording before the first concert performance in Berlin . |
| 28 | ‘ She insisted we did n't see the show before the first night , ’ explained Waterman . |
| 29 | We have always in Czechoslovakia been proud of being Europeans , as we were before the First World War and between the wars . |
| 30 | Mrs Belgrove , a 32-year-old agricultural graduate , started by hacking down trees and giant weeds , under which were plants such as sedum and aquilegia which had been hidden since before the First World War . |