Example sentences of "[coord] before [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 14 ) Section 104 of CA 1985 requires certain conditions to be met ( including an independent valuation and approval by an ordinary resolution of the company ) before a public company ( formed as such ) can ( within two years of its being issued with a certificate entitling it to do business under CA 1985 , s117 ) enter into an agreement to acquire a non-cash asset ( eg shares in the target ) from a subscriber to its memorandum of association which is equal in value to one-tenth or more of the company 's nominal share capital issued at the time or before a company is re-registered as a public company can ( within two years of the date of re-registration ) enter into such an agreement with a person who was a member on the date of re-registration . |
| 2 | Appendix 4 to the 17th Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Community states that ‘ Parliament does not require to be consulted before or during negotiations on a treaty or before a text is initialled ’ . |
| 3 | A revocation or modification order is made when the development has not been undertaken ( or before a change of use has taken place ) . |
| 4 | However , simulation finds wider application nowadays in the many situations where it is necessary to model the behaviour of some process before its introduction or before a change is made . |
| 5 | In a letter to Suger , Robert of Montfalcon declared that a case over whether or not a certain man was his serf should be tried either in the royal court or before the archbishop of Bourges , provided that the proceedings were in accordance with the customs of Bourges ; for him , the consuetudines of his native town had assumed the status of a law binding on outside authorities . |
| 6 | The forms need to show the maximum possible numbers to include everyone on role at any time between January and December — please return them at or before the Reunion , but let us know verbally as soon as possible of any major changes — the office likes to give up to date information to enquirers . |
| 7 | ( b ) An executor or administrator for trespasses committed to goods of the deceased after his death but before probate is granted to the executor or before the administrator takes out letters of administration . |
| 8 | Typically there is a long latent period between radiation exposure and detection of a tumour , which is because of the time required for sufficient increase in the size of the tumour to make it detectable , and may also be due in part to a form of induction period before the initially affected cell or cells start to divide and form a tumour , or before the tumour assumes ‘ malignant ’ characteristics of growth and spreading . |
| 9 | However , where a charge is delivered together with an application to register a transfer involving monetary consideration or before the application is completed , Sched 4 , Abatement 1 , provides that no fee is payable for the registration of the charge . |
| 10 | If an aid is granted without informing the Commission or before the Commission has had sufficient time to examine the aid , the Court has recently held that the Commission has power to take interim measures ordering the member states concerned to suspend the aid and provide the Commission with all relevant information . |
| 11 | Once the debate has finished , and before a vote is taken , the mover of the motion has a right of reply to the discussion . |
| 12 | He qualified in 1628 and before the year was out had made ‘ simpling voyages ’ to Kent and Hampstead Heath with nine companions , all in some way associated with the Company . |
| 13 | I had my bag of reading material with me and before the pub got too crowded , I spread the map , the EXHILARATOR brochure and the file marked ‘ Cawthorne ’ over a metal-legged table and got down to it . |
| 14 | While other options were being carried out , and before the text was ready to receive entries for completely new words and meanings , it might well be desirable to begin to assemble these new entries and hold them ready in advance , so as to speed production and make the best use of the system 's storage capacity . |
| 15 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and before the case for the Crown has been closed , provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance ; and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 16 | Poole was as quick to recognize , however , that Coleridge himself was someone of ‘ splendid abilities ’ , and before the day was over , the two very different men had established a lasting friendship . |
| 17 | I had slept in the bedroom myself not so many years before , and in the first light of morning had got up to see what the village might have looked like before the traffic came and before the stone walls had been breached . |
| 18 | Whenever liquids or greases are used during maintenance , all excess spillages must be cleared up as quickly as possible and before the equipment is put back into operation . |
| 19 | When the musician finished , to thunderous applause , and before the singing started , her salad was brought . |
| 20 | The official receiver may at any time after the bankruptcy order has been made and before the discharge of the bankrupt apply to the court for the public examination of the bankrupt ( s 290(1) ) . |
| 21 | The Mensheviks and SRs were portrayed not only as counter-revolutionaries but as vicious saboteurs , the treachery of Stalin 's various rivals was traced to their earliest participation in the party , and Stalin 's role in and before the revolution was inflated out of all recognition . |
| 22 | A twenty-five-foot wave flung itself at the canoe from an unexpected angle and before the crew could turn to absorb the blow , the Hokule'a rose up the face of the wave at forty-five degrees , and was capsized as it flew off the peak . |
| 23 | President Jacques Attali will argue that the bank , which was set up one year ago and before the break-up of the Soviet Union , needs new forms of financing to meet the growing economic crisis in the former republics , although he has insisted that the bank 's problem is not limited overall resources but the lack of suitable projects to finance . |
| 24 | ‘ As the pile-up happened and before the commentator spotted him , I saw Foinavon pop over the fence for he was wearing distinctive yellow blinkers which I had had especially widened for the race to prevent mud from getting into his eyes , ’ Kempton said . |
| 25 | Letters are written home , and before the night seems settled , dawn is breaking and another day begins . |
| 26 | The party had officially received less than 3 per cent of the votes in the April general election ( see p. 36603 ) , and before the poll Mestiri had turned down a proposal by the ruling RCD for a national coalition . |
| 27 | In both cases , the objection is simply assumed to be valid , without proof , and before the evidence has even been considered . |
| 28 | And before the nausea anaesthetised me , did I feel nostalgia , did I feel regret , did I feel the sense of something ending as the island slipped below the edge of the sea ? |
| 29 | Holmes lost a scrum on his own 25 , and before the defence could regroup Paul Medley , another player returning to Thrum Hall , stepped out of three tackles to score by the posts . |
| 30 | A splendid , concise article in your Apr 26 Business section alerted me to the underhand profiteering of at least one of the high street banks at its farmer customers ' expense before the scandal broke in the national press and before the Chancellor of the Exchequer carpeted the bank bosses . |