Example sentences of "[noun] before the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louis Chiron ( Fra ) Hermann Lang ( Ger ) and Rudolf Caracciola ( Ger ) were three of the leading drivers of the era but the greatest of all drivers before the second war was Italy 's Tazio Nuvolari . |
| 2 | BRITAIN agreed yesterday to hand over £47 million in gold to Latvia to compensate the Baltic state for lost assets deposited with the Bank of England before the Second World War . |
| 3 | Sociology had a major presence , though of variable quality and intellectual traditions , throughout the university sector before the Second World War . |
| 4 | She had been constructed in Hampshire before the Second World War by craftsmen who had taken pride in their work , but fibreglass had made wooden boats redundant and Masquerade had been laid up and left to rot at a boatyard on the River Exe . |
| 5 | The Madame lived to the age of 90. when she died , some time in the 1970s , the hotel was left to Abdulrahim , a Nubian from Aswan who had come to work for the Madame as a young boy before the Second World War . |
| 6 | With astonishing speed prime spots in streets known for fashionable shopping before the second world war are being snapped up . |
| 7 | The early Church used it as a call to faithfulness and obedience in the interim before the Second Coming of Jesus and the establishing of the kingdom of Heaven over all the earth . |
| 8 | According to the joint letter issued by President Mitterrand and Chancellor Kohl before the second Rome summit in December 1990 , the idea seems to be that this power might rest with the Council of Ministers . |
| 9 | The stewards established there had been interference , but it was accidental and had taken place before the second last and thereby did not count under the rules . |
| 10 | Postwar holiday consumption patterns in Britain indicate the rapid growth of package holidays in the 1950s , but the roots of this boom are located in an earlier period before the Second World War . |
| 11 | For example , by the time the Mekong had been drained the excavations were comparable to the construction of the Panama canal and in the sixty years before the Second World War there were 4½ m. acres of new land brought into cultivation and correspondingly prodigious increases in the exports of rice . |
| 12 | And in the two or three years before the Second World War that is precisely what he did . |
| 13 | Churchill 's biographer refers to the years before the Second World War as the locust years . |
| 14 | He and his wife were Turkish-born Jews who came to Palestine before the Second World War . |
| 15 | The Ffestiniog Railway , who caused a major controversy when they attempted to revive the old 1922 company which ran the 22-miles two foot gauge-line before the Second World War , have proposed a plan to re-open the line from the northern end including building along the track bed of the former LNWR branch from Dinas Junction to Caernarfon . |
| 16 | Sophie had lifted the phone before the second ring . |
| 17 | The newspaper Moscow News reported on June 11 that a local KGB ( State Security Committee ) official had confirmed that the graves in a forest outside Kharkov , uncovered in April , contained the remains of Polish officers interned at the camp run by the NKVD ( the KGB 's forerunner ) at Starobelsk , as well as the remains of Soviet citizens executed by the NKVD in the Stalinist purges before the Second World War . |
| 18 | But when Wedgwoods moved to Barlaston before the Second World War , the place became a steel works , and all the old buildings and kilns have since been demolished by the British Steel Corporation . |
| 19 | Doors normally open half an hour before a concert or performance of a play but , when there are two evening performances , spectators may be admitted only a few minutes before the second performance . |
| 20 | Hours before the second rejection , on April 26th , Serbia 's President Slobodan Milosevic had urged them to sign . |
| 21 | The aim of this research is to investigate the historical commitment of both managements and workers to this system despite a large number of attempts before the second world war to adopt alternative reward structures in industry . |
| 22 | On 14 December , a week before the second anniversary of the disaster , it ran a six-column headline : ‘ Jet Bomb May Have Been Gadaffi 's Revenge . ’ |
| 23 | Veteran Japanese player , Isao Aoki , originally penalised two strokes after the first round for grounding his club in a bunker , disqualified himself from the tournament before the second round . |
| 24 | It was an old town , its wealth based on brewing before the Second World War came along and transformed it into a steel and munitions centre . |
| 25 | The jealousies and animosities which characterised the countries of Eastern Europe before the Second World War never developed into a coherent aspiration towards supranationalism on the West European pattern . |
| 26 | Born in Loanhead , Pat Garrow started in journalism on the former Edinburgh Evening Dispatch before the Second World War . |
| 27 | There are no nationwide ley systems , though possible local arrangements are beginning to be discerned-particularly alignments onto ‘ holy hills ’ , as in Bolivia and as noted by the German researcher Dr Josef Heinsch during his researches before the Second World War . |
| 28 | Will Fyffe , Wee Georgie Wood and Mai Bacon appeared at annual pantomimes before the Second World War and the Carl Rosa Opera and stars like Sybil Thorndike , Harry Lauder and the Pavlova Ballet played there . |
| 29 | At censuses before the Second World War , men outnumbered women in the paid workforce by more than two to one , by the mid-1980s the ratio approaches even numbers with women accounting for 40 per cent of the labour force at the 1981 census and , in 1987 , 45 per cent of employees in employment . |
| 30 | Craig Cassells , withdrew without explanation before the second qualifying round . |