Example sentences of "[adv] before [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Locally , it is estimated that more than half the 200 Health Authorities in England and Wales designated a responsible officer , and that there was a greater volume and variety of activity than ever before : traditional courses were supplemented by a new range of imaginative options , to which more managers than ever before had access . |
| 2 | " A plague such as never before ravaged England in this year . |
| 3 | Never before had England beaten West Indies in two consecutive one-day games , let alone three , and West Indies went into the next match at Melbourne , clearly determined that it would not be four . |
| 4 | Zimmerman points out that ‘ it was at this stage that Soviet authorities permitted , tolerated or encouraged Marshal Sokolovskii and his colleagues to publish an awesome picture of American military might ’ ( Voennaia Strategiia , 1962 ) and that ‘ wide dissemination was given to statements declaring that never before had imperialism been so strong ’ ( Zimmerman : 1969 , p. 192 ) . |
| 5 | Never before had Dustin been so exposed or felt such trepidation while awaiting their verdict on him . |
| 6 | Never before had Bodmin seen so many faces … and so many happy faces all at one time ! |
| 7 | Never before had events within Scotland been so firmly set on the international stage . |
| 8 | Never before had Ramsey run up against so formidable a Christian opponent , and never before been so forced to defend his biblical ideas . |
| 9 | They had seldom before entered Applecross café but on the few occasions before had been given , purely accidentally of course , some ‘ fat in five seconds ’ . |