Example sentences of "before [coord] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 2 | If he is under 24 , and has not been charged with this offence before and has an honest belief on reasonable grounds that the girl was above 16 , he will have a defence . |
| 3 | Extensive prises were levied in 1336 and 1337 to supply the English armies in Scotland and the garrisons of English-held castles there , and the new method of levying the lay subsidy , first adopted in 1334 , yielded larger sums than before and increased the fiscal pressure on the poorer sections of the population . |
| 4 | Hinrich Medau evolved a simple method of teaching piano improvisation so that even students who have never played the piano before and have no previous knowledge of music almost all learn to play well for movement , even if only in a very simple way . |
| 5 | What Scott lacked above all , however , was any visible grasp of the reports and councils , White Papers and Green Papers , which have reconnoitred this terrain before and illuminated the thorny issues at the heart of science policy . |
| 6 | We had thrown grenades before and used the LRAC rocket launcher so we were accustomed to the noise and strength of high-impact explosion . |