Example sentences of "prior [prep] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 ONE SOURCE of solace to the so far disappointing New Zealand tourists , who have a last chance at Leeds tomorrow to silence the doubters prior to the first Test next Saturday , must be the rate at which Great Britain 's best players are falling by the wayside .
2 That struggle shaped Germany for the subsequent two centuries and it also determined much of the shape of Europe prior to the First World War .
3 In the twenty years prior to the First World War there were numerous incidents of football hooliganism .
4 8.2 In the event of the Publisher making any payment to the Authors or the Company prior to the first accounting date such payments shall be treated as an advance on royalties unless otherwise agreed in writing .
5 It would be a prime requirement that the airspeed and behaviour at the stall be determined prior to the first landing .
6 Prior to the First World War unrelieved hostility towards the Jews , which expressed both obsession with their alleged power and ascribed to them filthy moral and personal habits , was rare .
7 During the decade prior to the First World War there was some discussion of proposals for the state maintenance of children .
8 The German scheme of cheap overnight accommodation dated from the years prior to the First World War and had its origin in the central European tradition of ‘ wanderlust ’ .
9 In Britain , conflict was most severe prior to the First World War , when the power to call out the police and troops lay in the hands of local employer/magistrate , and occasions like the General Strike of 1926 when fears of a worker revolution were aroused .
10 ‘ Sam Velerisms ’ , as they were called , which became the basis for ‘ Sam Wellerisms ’ , were famous in the period 1831–6 , just prior to the first publication of The Pickwick Papers .
11 A Corporate Finance Engagement Letter should be obtained from every client for whom corporate finance activities are to be undertaken prior to the first engagement .
12 The final " two-plus-four " meeting was to be held in Moscow on Sept. 12 and would produce a formulation for a unification agreement including the termination of " four-power " rights in Germany prior to the first all-German elections , scheduled for Dec. 2 , 1990 .
13 ( N.B. ‘ formal ’ modification does not apply to the initial versions of the software which , prior to the first approval , are classified as ‘ development ’ versions . )
14 Okay , erm , before the First World War , agriculture 's share of world trade was over fifty percent , a half of our , of all world trade prior to the First World War was agricultural products , alright .
15 We have to pay the , er , ninety two , three percentages , which were fifteen point two per cent and nine point eight per cent , so there 's an additional element there , and also we have to deal with erm , the additional cash that goes to grant maintained schools , who went grant maintained prior to the first of April nineteen ninety-two .
16 Now the Big Daddy of them all … the astonishing revelation that the Georgians had attempted to bribe Turkish match officials prior to the first leg game .
17 Georgian federation president Nukri Kakilashvili said on Saturday the club would be contesting the allegations that officials bribed the referee and linesmen prior to the first leg game between Tbilisi and Linfield in Georgia nearly three weeks ago .
18 They rejected the Georgians ' argument that the 5,000 dollars given to match officials prior to the first leg game was legitimate expenses and reinforced the judgement that Tbilisi be expelled from this season 's competition and the next one they qualify for .
19 For many weeks prior to the first of February we attempted to get a district council , a Labour council to agree that should apply in the case .
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