Example sentences of "[noun] before the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Air travel grew rapidly : the first Pan Am passenger flight was on 18 January 1928 , although the first commercial passenger flights had been in German Zeppelins before the First World War , and French and British airlines had begun by the early 1920s . |
| 2 | RVS was a master printer and an amateur pianist , the latter facility enabling him to help out a friend who was touring the Glasgow districts before the First World War with a projector and a bag full of short silent films . |
| 3 | The family historian who visits such a place would find it hard to believe that it was once the home of a mere waggoner if he had not seen old photographs that show its condition before the First World War . |
| 4 | By 1291 settlers had created Middleton Sancti Georgii on a low silty plain a mile downstream , but this was abandoned centuries before the first guard called ‘ tickets please ’ . |
| 5 | The terrace parterre is to be restored to match its appearance during its heyday before the First World War , and an extensive programme of tree planting is under way to replace the losses of recent years . |
| 6 | The British Lions were amused to read of the plight of referee Steve McNally when they picked up the local paper in Paihia before the first match of their New Zealand tour . |
| 7 | Both types were fitted with top-deck covers before the First World War , as seen on this page , but more extensive rebuilding followed . |
| 8 | The archetype here is Guillaume Apollinaire , special pleader for modernism before the first World War . |
| 9 | We know more about movie-going in Chicago than about any other city and this is appropriate for it was in so many ways the symbolic city of those last decades before the First World War . |
| 10 | In the three decades before the First World War , the great house appears more and more often as a picture , with a dream-like , self-sufficient existence of its own . |
| 11 | In his contribution to the present volume , the distinguished Soviet historian , Leonid Goryushkin , has added fresh insights to the body of literature on nineteenth and early twentieth-century peasant migration patterns by demonstrating how these reflected the fluctuating social , economic and political policies of the late tsarist regime and by analysing their impact on the agrarian economy and village industries of Siberia in the decades before the first World War . |
| 12 | Daunton asks the searching question : ‘ did the private market as it existed in the decades before the First World War fall , or was it pushed ? ’ |
| 13 | Italy , Russia , and Austria lagged further behind , their major period of industrialization being concentrated in the last three decades before the First World War . |
| 14 | Mother would n't have anything to do with it whatsoever , do n't you bring anything , any of that stuff into our house , I mean of course it be this New Zealand lamb had just arrived on the scene before the First Word War , I mean nobody was , anybody dare have it I mean they 'd be standing on the pavement at eleven o'clock at night almost giving it away on Saturday night , but anyway that 's all changed now , we all eat it . |
| 15 | ( viii ) The prisoner may make representations to the local review committee before the first review . |
| 16 | UEFA 's appeals committee will hear Tbilisi deny that they tried to bribe the referee and linesmen before the first leg in Georgia three weeks ago . |
| 17 | Tsarist Russia before the First World War held that position , earning a third of its foreign exchange from grain sales . |
| 18 | There is an introductory intensive skills course which begins on the Monday before the first week of term . |
| 19 | She had just walked the course and was making her way to the weighing room before the first race when she heard the familiar Bronx accent behind her . |
| 20 | ( 2 ) In the case of an application for the grant of a new licence , the applicant shall , along with his application , lodge with the clerk of the board a plan of the premises in respect of which the application is made ; and ( ii ) arrange for the display at the premises , in a place and at a height where it can conveniently be read by the public , of a notice in the prescribed form intimating his application and the type of licence for which he applies , for a period of at least 21 days before the first day of the meeting as aforesaid . |
| 21 | They were rarely made in the days before the first Enclosure Acts . |
| 22 | Now right at the beginning of a claim you can have an odd number of days before the first benefit week ending day . |
| 23 | It also meant that Mrs Thatcher was going to be away in Paris at the summit meeting in the crucial final days before the first ballot . |
| 24 | WE ALL , I reckon , feel a nostalgia for the days before the First World War when we read that travel was simpler and you could go down to Victoria and light out for the Continent without bothering about a passport . |
| 25 | Subtracting these 200 msec from the 550 msec by which the RP preceded the movement , Libet concluded that the neural activity associated with an apparently voluntary act began some 350 msec before the first moment at which the subject was aware of his intention to act . |
| 26 | ‘ Darren 's had some luck because London have brought young players into the squad , and Chris Oti dropped out injured at the crucial moment before the first game of the season against the Midlands . |
| 27 | JOHN NEVILLE CRAWFORD was one of the outstanding young cricketers of the era before the First World War . |
| 28 | The man is dressed in the elegant black and white of Cambridge before the First World War . |
| 29 | We also found Karl Bundt , born of an incestuous union of titled aristocrats who had fled the opprobrium of European society for the Moluccas before the First World War . |
| 30 | DINAMO TBILISI confirmed today they WILL appeal against their dismissal from the European Cup for allegedly bribing officials before the first leg of the preliminary tie against Linfield in Georgia two weeks ago . |