Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] before [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Redcliffe-Maud considered that Senior was the only one of the eleven commissioners who had made his mind up before the first meeting of the Royal Commission ( Wood 1976:8 ) . |
| 2 | In the period immediately before the First War , the growing political militancy of the Women 's Social and Political Union ( WSPU ) , along with the publication of feminist books and pamphlets on sexuality , radicalized the older , more traditional women 's organizations . |
| 3 | The period immediately before the First World War was dominated by a series of reforms adopted by the Liberal government after 1906 . |
| 4 | The period immediately before the First World War saw rapid economic and social change in Ireland . |
| 5 | ( a ) the date on which the scheme is to come into effect , being a date not later than the day immediately before the first transfer date ; and |
| 6 | Perhaps it is only in retrospect that the artists ' balls , the fancy-dress dances , the 14th of July celebration seemed more brilliant than usual that summer just before the First World War . |
| 7 | Later readers were often puzzled by the references to ‘ stations ’ at a time long before the first arrival of the railway in Cumbria . |
| 8 | The atmosphere just before the First World War was free , live and very young . |