Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were getting into an area which I think is a whole different programme and before this programme started I might tell you we were having a little er discussion amongst ourselves whether or not er zoo 's were good for animals and I suppose there is a discussion about whether prisons are inevitably going to be degrading because of , because of what er , what , what a prison represents which is a curtailment of freedom , but we do n't have time in this programme , so that 's another one for next year , can I ask you , we 've , we 've touched a lot of basis and it must be frustrating that we ca n't pursue er to the end some of the things we 've er , we 've picked on , but can I ask you a couple of final questions , as far as you know have you committed a crime ? , button one for yes and button two for no , as far as you know , I mean we have n't got time to go into what they might be so your perfectly free to be very honest and honestly reveals that three people are n't quite sur , oh yes there they are |
| 2 | Some had much the same sales after forty years as before . |
| 3 | Given these conditions of campaigning it is not surprising that when they get to Washington legislators are even more inclined towards individualistic behaviour than before , and even less responsive to the appeals of party leaders and presidents . |
| 4 | With fewer yachts this year than before , there was a degree of speculation among some rallyists about the future of the ARC formula . |
| 5 | I spent little time at home now , so I was unable to be a detailed witness to the Great Love in the same account-keeping way as before . |
| 6 | Pascoe rippled through the pages of his notebook , stopped , coughed and began to speak in an impersonal monotone as before . |
| 7 | Yet in a curious way ‘ the Arabs seem even less of a real presence than before ’ . |
| 8 | By that time I had copied her training set-up in my own lab , and we were able to repeat the entire experiment as before . |
| 9 | This year 's events attracted more official attention than before since Wales will be sending sides to the World and Hong Kong Sevens in 1993 . |
| 10 | Some have left never to reoffend ; others have committed crimes , but of a much less serious nature than before . |
| 11 | How are we to ensure that the comparative information they need over time will be available to them , on the same comprehensive basis as before ? |
| 12 | In principle , only three things can happen : they can fall out completely , patch up their differences , or part without a formal rupture but on frostier terms than before . |
| 13 | The rest of the dwelling was treated with as much respect as before , but the new room was — as far as the cat was concerned - still part of the ‘ outside ’ and was treated accordingly . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a power failure , ’ the same male voice as before repeated . |
| 15 | ‘ Nigel looked calmer than usual , his aggression was more controlled and that makes him a more dangerous fighter than before , ’ said WBO title king Eubank . |
| 16 | In challenging the structural and cultural marginalization of Britain 's black minority communities , they also began to shift the terms around which British national identities had sedimented over the years of colonial domination and imperial grandeur and before . |
| 17 | erm that 's a clumsy , and perhaps you might say a rather German way of putting it , but seeing religion as one of the things people do , one of the things that we can understand now that we 're good at understanding history — we can understand how society works , we can understand that a person is interested in religion for psychological reasons because he is a certain kind of person , comes from a certain kind of family , and so from all sorts of angles religion is being understood and the cost is that it 's not such an absolute thing as before . |
| 18 | The House of Lords , trade unions , and licensing continued to raise as much heat as before in Unionist minds , but the issue of the Church was drowned in the mud of Flanders . |
| 19 | I hope that these reflections upon the justifications for the enforcement of contracts place the difficulties experienced by teachers of contract law in a clearer perspective than before . |
| 20 | There will be a current produced by the electric field as before ; the new feature is the appearance of a qv X B force on each charge element . |
| 21 | The gun went Blam ! with a little less sonic enthusiasm than before , though it hurt his shoulder a little more . |
| 22 | Richard Lewis has expanded the Bisham Abbey squad and they have started to select children at a younger age than before . |
| 23 | Follow the basic method as before , but try adding some of our alternatives . |
| 24 | However , the Liberal backbenches after the election contained a larger number than before of members known to be committed to social reform . |
| 25 | Against that , though , was the fact that , if he and his secretary were still away , she stood to have the same unsatisfactory conversation with the lady with a little English as before . |
| 26 | All those things had been said time and again erm by various thinkers in the eighteenth century and before and after . |
| 27 | The sadness and this is this subject was forecast a year and a half ago er that we are phasing in i in large management and land and it was raised , we had that seminar but before that there were also erm worries expressed before this predicament . |
| 28 | Though he began each day as before , in fear and trembling , he had found the courage to follow his own path . |
| 29 | IT offers the tutor more effective methods than before of helping learners explore concepts and carry out investigations , and of organising the department . |
| 30 | It is in fact a movement : a coming together of teachers whose common conviction it is that teaching up to now has been conducted in far too random and amateurish a fashion , based at best on a kind of inspired guesswork , and that it ought to be possible by putting our minds to it , and applying the sort of thinking that is successful in other fields , to do a better job than before . |