Example sentences of "[art] days before [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did n't we hear father talking it day and night round the house in the days before Corpus Christi ? |
| 2 | What happened in the days before freezers I mean well like going back to this you know when folk did n't have power . |
| 3 | For many retailers , particularly jewellers , the days before December 25 are the most crucial . |
| 4 | Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look . |
| 5 | And it was all in the days before credit cards , when hire purchase was king . |
| 6 | ‘ In the days before lycra , we were very much more limited in finding leg yarns with the perfect fit , now lycra is the vital link between fashion leg and good function . ’ |
| 7 | In the days before PAYE there was no easy way of determining an individual 's or family 's income . |
| 8 | Perhaps we are heading back in a full-circle towards the days of Victorian philanthropy — Back towards the days before state provision when organisations like Barnardos , the Salvation Army and the C.O.S. were the dominant providers . |
| 9 | The messages would get to the Teuter office in under five minutes , a minor miracle in the days before satellites and the use of overseas telephones for Press work . |
| 10 | In the days before maps and enclosing landlords , it was a means ‘ both of reaffirming the parish boundaries and of entreating God to send good weather and fair fortune to the growing crops ’ . |
| 11 | Beating the Bounds also served a practical purpose in the days before maps , reminding villagers where the boundaries of their parish and the areas of common land within actually lay . |
| 12 | Opposition spokesman Richard Andriamanjato told Radio France International on July 29 that conditions for talks with the government included the release of opposition leaders arrested in the days before Ratsiraka 's statement and agreement on the participation of opposition members in a new government . |
| 13 | ‘ We also talked about the days before Flodden — the doings of the late King and the gossip of the court . ’ |
| 14 | First , you follow the Adenauer Allee out of Bonn through the suburb of Bad Godesberg where Neville Chamberlain came for his chats with Herr Hitler in the days before Munich . |
| 15 | Opposition protests were voiced in the days before commencement of the 30-day period of voter registration , set by the government for June 8 although it had still not set a date for the elections themselves . |
| 16 | In the days before radio the shelter was a link with other drivers and todays cabbies say it should have been kept for them . |
| 17 | I also considered that the two eclipses this month , reminiscent of those in the days before Edward VIII 's abdication , might trigger Charles renouncing the succession in favour of Prince William . |
| 18 | In the days before glasnost — which his fictions may be thought to have rehearsed and predicted , but which could well mean that his fictions will no longer be for the West what they have been so far , when the thing that they deplore was still there in its entirety to be deplored — Kundera was forced into exile in the ‘ free world ’ of the time . |
| 19 | Mozart was by no means the first freelance composer to die in financial difficulties in the days before copyright law and performance rights afforded the artist some protection : 60 years later the German composer Gustav Lortzing literally starved to death after having to sell his hugely successful operas to publishers for a pitifully inadequate outright fee , which denied him any further revenue . |
| 20 | Years ago , in fact , in the days before television , I was frequently asked ‘ Are you going netting ? |
| 21 | But in the days before television and radio , almost before phonograph records , how did the music spread so far and so wide ? |
| 22 | In the days before shops the local people would stock up with goods not available at the weekly market , while those wishing to sell were able to dispose of surplus goods and livestock since the guild monopoly of local trade was suspended for the duration of the fair , so all buying and selling became concentrated at the fairs . |
| 23 | In the days before Aids , I 'd have thought nothing of offering it to him , but nowadays you did n't even have to mention it . |
| 24 | Mr Davies challenged the usual assumption that the line was a failure , pointing out that it did a good job for the district , particularly in transporting goods in the days before motor transport . |
| 25 | This is generally thought to have been done deliberately , to improve drainage in the days before clay and now plastic field drains . |
| 26 | In the days before antibiotics , it occasionally led to septicaemia and even death . |
| 27 | I was a bank clerk in the days before computers , when the signature on every cheque was scrutinised before the cheque was entered — by hand — in the ledger . |