Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] before the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the referee talks to the two boxers just before the first round , each fighter stares closely and directly into the opponent 's eyes . |
| 2 | The story takes place at an unspecified date but clearly in the years immediately before the First World War . |
| 3 | Social hygiene took off in the years immediately before the First War as part of the growing debate over national health and efficiency . |
| 4 | The period immediately before the First World War was dominated by a series of reforms adopted by the Liberal government after 1906 . |
| 5 | In the period immediately before the First War , the growing political militancy of the Women 's Social and Political Union ( WSPU ) , along with the publication of feminist books and pamphlets on sexuality , radicalized the older , more traditional women 's organizations . |
| 6 | The period immediately before the First World War saw rapid economic and social change in Ireland . |
| 7 | Set in Austria just before the First World War the play revolves around Josephea , proprietress of the inn ; Leopold , the head waiter ; several well-to-do local businessmen and the Emperor of Austria who comes to stay at the Inn at the start of the shooting season . |
| 8 | ( a ) the date on which the scheme is to come into effect , being a date not later than the day immediately before the first transfer date ; and |
| 9 | In addition , the Board of Inland Revenue must be indemnified by the people who were partners immediately before the first change , and by anyone joining the partnership on that or a later change , against any loss of tax arising on a partner 's claim that the election does not strictly comply with the provisions of s 113(2) and that the cessation basis should have been applied . |
| 10 | Perhaps it is only in retrospect that the artists ' balls , the fancy-dress dances , the 14th of July celebration seemed more brilliant than usual that summer just before the First World War . |
| 11 | Later readers were often puzzled by the references to ‘ stations ’ at a time long before the first arrival of the railway in Cumbria . |
| 12 | The atmosphere just before the First World War was free , live and very young . |