Example sentences of "prior [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know that the Palace was still used occasionally for in 1418 , Bishop Yong was here , sitting judicially in his Chapel at Halling giving judgement and punishment to the Prior of the Convent of Rochester , in a dispute over St. Nicholas Church , Rochester . |
| 2 | Knowing , for example , that the firm will have a cash surplus , say for two months prior to the payment of a large creditor , such as the Inland Revenue , means that the company will be able to arrange to deposit cash over this period to obtain the maximum returns . |
| 3 | Prior to the Assembly , delegates took part in a meeting of women communicators , and were joined by representatives from local women 's groups involved in development communication . |
| 4 | legal expenses incurred either prior to the granting of support by the insurers or without their written consent , and |
| 5 | On previous occasions a notice has been inserted in the Journal warning Scottish solicitors that under the English Legal Aid Scheme no payment is allowed out of the Legal Aid Fund to any solicitor , English or otherwise , for any work done prior to the granting of a Civil Aid Certificate . |
| 6 | Unlike the other seven Lilley Group businesses , Robison & Davison was not included in the receivership because the management buy-out process had reached an advanced stage prior to the Lilley collapse . |
| 7 | Prior to the patrol I had been given a verbal briefing on the night 's events . |
| 8 | Meagher expressed his concerns to RWC chairman Russ Thomas during a meeting prior to the Ellis Park test between South Africa and the All Blacks . |
| 9 | In recent years , however , there has been a growing tendency to question the assumption that , prior to the advent of Christianity , Israel was unique among the nations of antiquity in the significance it attached to history and the non-repeatability of events . |
| 10 | Body armour , prior to the advent of chain , as worn by a helmeted knight in a manuscript illustration of the Barbarossa period . |
| 11 | 1.4 System of Education ( prior to the advent of the European ) |
| 12 | It is almost as if both men had to be chastened by the bitter lessons of Marxism in practice before there could be a return to the unproblematical friendship prior to the advent of Marxism in their lives . |
| 13 | Non-dispersive interferometers , though available , were not widely used prior to the advent of modern computer technology . |
| 14 | Vranitzky had led a similar coalition prior to the October 1990 general election [ see p. 37785 ] , in which the ÖVP had registered its worst result since 1945 . |
| 15 | The sheer size of the task in fact prompted the EC Commission to doubt whether the traditional approach to the standards problem , which had been adopted prior to the SEA , was any longer appropriate . |
| 16 | Prior to the SEA , scheduled ( as opposed to charter ) 4 air passenger transport was notable for the absence of any really significant Community impact . |
| 17 | Intel Corp shares were down sharply prior to the New York opening as investors reacted to the news : opening at $99 , they carried on down to $95.75 , off $14.25 from the $110 at the close on Friday . |
| 18 | Intel Corp shares were down sharply prior to the New York opening as investors reacted to the news : opening at $99 , they carried on down to $95.75 , off $14.25 from the $110 at the close on Friday . |
| 19 | Miss Gibling will contact the various organisations and arrange a meeting prior to the September meeting of the U.G.V.A. committee . |
| 20 | Under current banking rules , we , the collecting agents , must inform the person whose bank account is being debited at least 14 days prior to the event , stating the amount and the account number to be debited . |
| 21 | Guidelines for appropriate charges , which will be negotiated and agreed in writing prior to the event , are given in Schedule 6 . |
| 22 | Clearly it is better if some consideration is given to the potential hazards of retirement prior to the event . |
| 23 | The day was privately sponsored by a group of professional photographers , hence the secrecy prior to the event . |
| 24 | Around seventy-five firms will be showing a range of objects on the third floor of the shop , all of which will be vetted by an independent committee prior to the event . |
| 25 | The vast majority of chromosomally unbalanced mouse fetuses die between day 6 and IS ( 8 ) and mitotic activity often decreases several hours or even days prior to the event . |
| 26 | The association was closed to new members from the time that this project became public , but now membership will be opened again : I imagine there will be considerably more interest in membership than prior to the event . |
| 27 | British problems revolved round a chest muscle pulled by Grayson Bourne several weeks prior to the event . |
| 28 | Analysis request forms should be completed and forwarded to the Drug Control and Teaching Centre to be received no later than 28 days prior to the event . |
| 29 | Cause , on the other hand , situates the causal agent prior to the event caused and so requires the to infinitive . |
| 30 | Indeed , for all cases where the to infinitive evokes " subsequent potentiality " the support is necessarily seen or implied to be situated in time prior to the event . |