Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] before the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brook flows under the shops opposite , built just before the First World War . |
| 2 | It was an old concrete pillbox built just before the last war to house a gun covering the firth , and it stuck in the sand like a big grey tooth . |
| 3 | Table 4.7 compares the action and control samples between first and second assessments , omitting all those who died or moved away before the second interview , and any who refused to take part in the tests on either occasion . |
| 4 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 5 | The fair gradually declined during the 1930 's and ceased just before the Second World War ; but it has continued to be proclaimed each St Swithin 's Day , except when this falls on a Sunday and then the custom usually takes place on the following day . |
| 6 | It should be stressed that all the 12 Steps were established and practised long before the first residential treatment centre came into being and that many people today get better without the help of treatment centres or professional counsellors but simply by depending upon the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 7 | The Central Committee 's Theses , adopted shortly before the 19th Party Conference in 1988 , contained the first official criticism of Soviet foreign policy in the Brezhnev and Gromyko years , suggesting that there had been too much ‘ dogmatism ’ and ‘ subjectivism ’ at this time and that Soviet policy had lagged behind the important changes that were taking place in world affairs . |
| 8 | Pygmalion and Heartbreak House are the work of a writer at the peak of his powers : the former written just before the first world war , the latter just after it . |
| 9 | The shop had been going since before the Second World War . |
| 10 | In parts of the West Country and the South , much of the land had been enclosed long before the fifteenth century , whereas in some of the northern counties the movement did not get under way until late in the sixteenth . |
| 11 | Then you got to er the picture house er that happened just before the First World War that was put up as far as I can remember , I know I used to go there and see erm the Broken Coin which was a serial picture and it was you know er where somebody was up to their neck in water one week and it would say that the continuation of this picture would be shown in this theatre one week from today and you . |
| 12 | Their protests gained renewed impetus in the suffrage struggles immediately before the First War . |
| 13 | The famous ‘ Golly ’ originated just before the first world war from an American design . |
| 14 | William Blogg , whose brewery disappeared just before the First World War , is one of a whole host of East End brewers whose names live on , even if they no longer brew . |
| 15 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Leavis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening — whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period , I decided I think roughly before the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | ( c ) A sign character ( or some other character , such as a currency symbol ) may be inserted immediately before the first significant digit of the value , or some sign indication ( such as " DR " and " CR " ) may be placed immediately after the value . |
| 17 | Even if she were to go voluntarily before the next election , that could only be very bad news for him . |
| 18 | It was an attitude of mind which had existed long before the sixteenth century ; the great change was that an attitude which could be found in a number of separate societies was suddenly turned by the expansion of Europe into a force that altered the way that the whole world ran its affairs . |
| 19 | At Kigoma in Tanganyika a multi-storeyed station was constructed just before the First World War . |
| 20 | John Betjeman , the former Poet Laureate , wrote just before the Second World War ( 'Slough' in Skelton , 1964 , p. 74 ) : |
| 21 | He had been a deputy in parliament for the Swiss Party of Labour from 1944 , when it was founded , to 1986 , having represented the Communist Party from 1936 until it was banned shortly before the Second World War . |
| 22 | But they were disappearing even before the Second World War . |
| 23 | Proposals for a maximum carcase weight of 380kg , which was more than likely to be introduced this July , could mean heavier animals having to be marketed earlier before the second qualifying period . |