Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] before [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Des , who used to be a goalkeeper on Stoke City 's books , turned on the style with some continental soccer skills to entertain the crowds before netting from the spot . |
| 2 | ‘ The government 's main preoccupation is getting supplies to the cities before winter , ’ he said . |
| 3 | With an ache that almost made him bend over , he longed for the hours before evening to be done . |
| 4 | On a much busier occasion the calls before break were to attend the home of a widowed pensioner who thought she had heard an intruder , two road accidents , a near hit-and-run accident , and to move on youths . |
| 5 | There is a further way of sampling , using a certain amount of ordering of the units before sampling takes place . |
| 6 | It is perhaps a reminder to the parties ' advisers to encourage the parties to have one final read through the engrossments before execution . |
| 7 | The provisional Eritrean government has acknowledged the need to develop an effective communication policy in the months before independence in May 1993 , and it is looking for guidance from the churches and international organisations such as WACC . |
| 8 | The provisional Eritrean government has acknowledged the need to develop an effective communication policy in the months before independence in May 1993 , and it is looking for guidance from the churches and international organisations such as WACC . |
| 9 | In the decades before Emancipation only a few isolated individuals had carried dissent to the point of revolutionary commitment . |
| 10 | And it was all in the days before credit cards , when hire purchase was king . |
| 11 | ‘ In the days before lycra , we were very much more limited in finding leg yarns with the perfect fit , now lycra is the vital link between fashion leg and good function . ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps we are heading back in a full-circle towards the days of Victorian philanthropy — Back towards the days before state provision when organisations like Barnardos , the Salvation Army and the C.O.S. were the dominant providers . |
| 13 | Opposition protests were voiced in the days before commencement of the 30-day period of voter registration , set by the government for June 8 although it had still not set a date for the elections themselves . |
| 14 | In the days before radio the shelter was a link with other drivers and todays cabbies say it should have been kept for them . |
| 15 | In the days before glasnost — which his fictions may be thought to have rehearsed and predicted , but which could well mean that his fictions will no longer be for the West what they have been so far , when the thing that they deplore was still there in its entirety to be deplored — Kundera was forced into exile in the ‘ free world ’ of the time . |
| 16 | Mozart was by no means the first freelance composer to die in financial difficulties in the days before copyright law and performance rights afforded the artist some protection : 60 years later the German composer Gustav Lortzing literally starved to death after having to sell his hugely successful operas to publishers for a pitifully inadequate outright fee , which denied him any further revenue . |
| 17 | Years ago , in fact , in the days before television , I was frequently asked ‘ Are you going netting ? |
| 18 | But in the days before television and radio , almost before phonograph records , how did the music spread so far and so wide ? |
| 19 | Mr Davies challenged the usual assumption that the line was a failure , pointing out that it did a good job for the district , particularly in transporting goods in the days before motor transport . |
| 20 | This is generally thought to have been done deliberately , to improve drainage in the days before clay and now plastic field drains . |
| 21 | England 's glory : the top buzz of 1966 , in the years before blanket satellite football coverage |
| 22 | The objectives of these courses should be to make the future teachers aware how much mother tongue learning is accomplished in the years before schooling starts , and critical of the ideas and beliefs about language which are transmitted by the culture . |
| 23 | There is still something of the well fed confidence of the years before World War I about it , and not a little of the self-deluding establishment complacence of the years before World War II . |
| 24 | There is still something of the well fed confidence of the years before World War I about it , and not a little of the self-deluding establishment complacence of the years before World War II . |
| 25 | He became particularly interested in ultraviolet absorption spectra , and he carried out some important work in collaboration with ( Sir ) James Dobbie , his new principal ( later termed government chemist ) , in the years before World War I. |
| 26 | However , in the context of the fragile family economy of the very poor in the years before World War I , it should be remembered that if a wife earned only 1/6d a week it meant that she could feed her family for two days . |
| 27 | A good example are the ‘ golf ’ tickets from Craven Arms to Plowden , where upon making enquiries I was informed that there was no golf course , but there had been one in the years before World War One . |
| 28 | Sadly there appeared to be more light engine movements than actual trains in the years before closure . |
| 29 | Re-entry into the labour force after child-rearing was less usual for the older group than for the younger ( Martin and Roberts 1984 ) and therefore fewer would have had pensionable paid employment in the years before retirement . |
| 30 | His brass-faced clocks had only one hand and a calendar because , in the years before bus and train timetables and television programme times , all the Dalesmen needed to know was the hour and the day . |