Example sentences of "before and [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the third phase of a major project funded by the ESRC since 1985 , examining the demographic , economic and social development of English small towns before and during the Industrial Revolution . |
| 2 | In addition , the new knowledge about economic and demographic change in the past has suggested that it is urgent to reconsider several aspects of the received wisdom about the industrial revolution , notably the assumptions made by contemporaries about declining marginal returns in agriculture ; changes in the occupational structure of the English labour force before and during the industrial revolution ; and , more generally , the viability of the concept itself so far as it connotes a unitary and progressive phenomenon . |
| 3 | Stories of life before and during the 1939–1945 War paint a vivid picture of a market and railway town which will interest visitors and residents alike , although including more dates to put the stories into their context would have increased their value , particularly to new residents seeking to learn more about the area . |
| 4 | We cross the Blue Ridge Parkway and , just beyond the town of Abingdon , find ourselves travelling on the Trail of the Lonesome Pine itself , which was named not after a Laurel and Hardy song but after the ‘ underground railway ’ route which helped escaping slaves escape before and during the Civil War . |
| 5 | Karajan 's response to Honegger 's Symphonie liturgique and its near contemporary , Strauss 's Metamorphosen , of which he made the first recording in 1947 , provides specifically musical evidence of Karajan 's priorities and allegiances that I have yet to see considered by those who have become so concerned to analyse and recycle often erroneous information about his alleged political sympathies before and during the Second World War . |
| 6 | Recently released Home Office papers in fact show that the authorities drew back from prosecuting even the most blatant cases of anti-semitic propaganda both before and during the Second World War despite the fact that it was ostensibly being fought to destroy Hitlerism . |
| 7 | Figure 4 shows the pattern of basal UOS pressure before and during the common cavity episode . |
| 8 | Both before and during the inter-war depression , the claims of unemployed and poor families directly , if inadvertently , pre-empted the needs of older people . |
| 9 | The survey is most interesting in contrasting works from before and during the Nazi period by sculptors whose development was less consistent than Freundlich 's . |
| 10 | What happened to the ‘ degenerate ’ sculptors in Germany before and during the Nazi regime ? |
| 11 | Since this causal chain is but part of a boundless nexus of causal chains that originate before and outside the perceived object and end beyond the perceiving body , it is not very clear why the former should count as an ‘ origin ’ . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , Roberts describes a way of life before and after the First World War which is quite fascinating and now , obviously , long past . |
| 13 | This had developed from a side-interest of the original Weetman Pearson ( Lord Cowdray ) , a civil engineer and Liberal activist before and after the First World War . |
| 14 | To his credit , Sir Thomas Beecham never put up with it ; nor did Karl Böhm , nor the Glyndebourne pioneers before and after the second world war . |
| 15 | It would be true to say that Cleveleys has grown with the tramway , large areas being developed before and after the Second World War . |
| 16 | Write out the answers to the following by fixing place values before and after the decimal point . |
| 17 | Denver has also chosen to situate its Spanish Colonial and pre-Columbian installations on the same floor , with an emphasis on exploring continuities between periods before and after the Spanish Conquest , a politically delicate approach in the U.S. museum world . |
| 18 | The changing circumstances of validation by the CNAA , including before and after the Interfaculty Studies ( IFS ) Board and the impact of delegated authority and accreditation . |
| 19 | Whatever method is chosen in the future , extreme care will have to be taken to preserve confidentiality before and after the final decision . |
| 20 | But standards of teaching were good ; just how good is shown by the large number of South African dancers who won leading positions in British companies before and after the 1939 war . |
| 21 | A reception was held at 66 Portland Place for new MPs , and MPs were lobbied both before and after the General Election about the consequences of the recession . |
| 22 | The fully restored ‘ Yankee tank ’ is a direct copy of the famous ‘ lend-lease ’ engine that helped the allies marshal their supplies and manpower before and after the momentous D-Day invasion of Hitler 's Europe in June , 1944 . |
| 23 | The bookstall is open every Sunday — after the 9.30 and 11.15 services , before and after the 6.30 service . |
| 24 | An increasing number of claims for night visits was recorded during the 1970s , and anecdotal evidence suggests that this trend continued both before and after the new contract , although no figures have been published . |
| 25 | This may be called the ‘ monumental or Renaissance ’ , a style which made an enormous impact on ‘ townscapes ’ throughout Europe , especially in the years before and after the Great War . |
| 26 | Before and After the Great War |
| 27 | No studies have reported the proportion of night visits carried out by deputies before and after the 1990 contract . |
| 28 | Finally , the agricultural impact of the new plant varieties bred at these institutes — both before and after the organisational changes of 1945 — will be assessed . |
| 29 | Frumkin , Ripley and Cox ( 1978 ) found a reduced mean right ear advantage on a dichotic listening task during hypnosis compared with scores obtained before and after the hypnotic session . |
| 30 | Generally , when you wish to punctuate a piece of optional , additional information or an aside that you are embedding in the middle of a sentence — for example with commas , dashes or brackets — then whatever punctuation you use should be placed both before and after the added element to signal its boundaries , not just at one end or the other . |