Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] before [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Critics of this theoretical approach emphasise that spectator violence existed before the First World War . |
| 2 | What evidence is there of this kind of behaviour at football matches before the First World War or in the inter-war period ? |
| 3 | Neither provision featured in the draft text prepared before the Eleventh Session of the Hague Conference . |
| 4 | ‘ I know it 's going to be a hard year and we 've still got a lot of work to do before the first European GP . |
| 5 | Two days to go before the first home game of the season . |
| 6 | Unless membership jumps before the next election , which must be held within a year , there seems little chance that candidates deemed vote-worthy will be rewarded with campaign funds . |
| 7 | He argues that the convention partners should affirm the broad principles of the scheme for a devolved Scottish parliament in the UK agreed before the last election and move on to adopt an educational role . |
| 8 | Well they ai n't going to anyway does a two or three years , they 're old age pensioners , the house is too big for them cos they 're waiting for a place to move , that 's why I want to get it , get this hedge grow before the next one comes in |
| 9 | If individual sessions are the chosen option , the therapist may give the client a number of handouts to read before the next session and a self-monitoring sheet to record incidents of anxiety . |
| 10 | The levels reached by 1971 exceeded even the considerable levels achieved before the First World War . |
| 11 | Thus the signalman was prevented from inadvertently releasing signals for a second train to enter before the first was clear . |
| 12 | Not a vestige of a road formed before the last century . |
| 13 | ‘ There were only about 15 varieties available then , but I did some research and came across an American monograph written before the Second World War that listed 250 . |
| 14 | In the attainment targets for reading we included the following for levels 8 , 9 and 10 : ‘ Read a range of poetry , fiction , literary non-fiction and drama , including works written before the twentieth century and works from different cultures . ’ |
| 15 | Despite the stated belief in the Proposals that students at school should be exposed to a historic range of English writing , there is little attention to works written before the nineteenth century , and certainly no recognition that new relations with history are causing literary texts to be approached in new ways . |
| 16 | Read a range of poetry , fiction , literary non-fiction , eg letters , diaries , autobiographies , and drama , including some works written before the 20th century and works from different cultures . |
| 17 | Read a range of poetry , fiction , literary non-fiction and drama , including works written before the 20th century and works from different cultures . |
| 18 | Read a range of poetry , fiction , literary non-fiction and drama , including works written before the 20th century and works from different cultures . |
| 19 | Read a range of poetry , fiction , literary non-fiction and drama , including works written before the 20th century and works from different cultures . |
| 20 | A handbook for teachers published before the Second World War gives us the flavour of a drawing lesson in an elementary school . |
| 21 | A dash to the train saw Dettori and several colleagues arrive with seconds to spare before the first race . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've a stack papers to read before the next sitting . |
| 23 | ‘ At my grammar school , over 60% of the students left before the sixth form . |
| 24 | ALMOST a year remains before the 200th anniversary of Mozart 's death on December 5th . |
| 25 | For many its decline began before the First World War , as a consequence of its inability to maintain the trade-union and working-class support in the face of the challenge of the Labour Party . |
| 26 | On balance the evidence suggests that the Liberal decline began before the First World War , but there is no denying that the war speeded up this process . |
| 27 | Laura and Jonathan stood before the sixty-sixth floor lift door . |