Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] before " in BNC.
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| 31 | During the three months before the move the two bases will continue to be maintained fully staffed . |
| 32 | No one had taken any antacids , bismuth preparations , or other drugs to treat dyspepsia within the past year and nobody was taking antibiotics during the three months before the study . |
| 33 | Exclusion criteria included previous gastric surgery , known bleeding diathesis , oral anticoagulation , or recent ( during the three months before the study ) treatment with bismuth compounds , antisecretory agents ( H 2 antagonists , omeprazole ) , or antibiotics . |
| 34 | Milner-Gibson had made nine solo landings in recces of the beaches during the three weeks before the raid , but on the night his boat 's compass proved faulty and others lost their way . |
| 35 | On Sept. 23 the federal government adopted a draft law laying down the modalities of partition and providing for the reallocation of the federal state 's property , institutions , debts and obligations between the two republics before Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 36 | The Congress announced after 10 days of debate that " while emphasizing its adherence to Libyan penal and procedural laws the General People 's Committee [ equivalent to a Council of Ministers ] do not object to the investigation and trial being carried out through the committee of seven constituted by the Arab League [ see p. 38883 ] or through the United Nations before a just and fair court to be agreed on " . |
| 37 | Of the Soviet republics [ see pp. 38372-73 ] , Georgia , the Ukraine and Moldova all recognized the independence of the Baltic states before Sept. 6 . |
| 38 | In reply , the Commission stated that under articles 4(2) and 8 of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/83 it was to submit to the Council of the European Communities before 31 December 1991 a report on the fisheries situation in the Community , the economic and social development of the coastal areas and the state of the stocks and their likely evolution . |
| 39 | Forces of heavily armed and armoured infantry drove the followers of the four Powers before them . |
| 40 | This time Orme finished third but the surprise packet of the race was Mick Lofthouse who was in the lead for a large part of the four laps before having to take second place to Dunlop . |
| 41 | This , in all probability , was approximately the state of man 's physical development when he first became aware that he had the power to partake to the full of the golden opportunities before him , and increase the richness of life by gradually controlling the residual violence which was an unavoidable by-product of his evolution . |
| 42 | ‘ There is no doubt that your situation is very difficult and the panel were not unsympathetic to this or any of the other cases before them with similar unfavourable circumstances . |
| 43 | Before disclosing the agreement the vendor should ensure that he is not in breach of any confidentiality undertakings contained in the agreement and if necessary first obtain the consent of the other parties before disclosing the agreement to the purchaser . |
| 44 | Anyone who fancies any of these items should phone their bid to any of the following numbers before 8pm on June 1 — Portadown 331013 , 330209 or Loughgall 891605 . |
| 45 | Checking his watch , he poured himself a last drink and sank into one of the easy chairs before the fire . |
| 46 | This was certainly the most sustained attempt to reach the children of the lower orders before the Sunday School movement towards the end of the century , but its extent and consistency have been questioned by historians , some of whom doubt that it was a " movement " at all . |
| 47 | To discover arbitrage possibilities in the FT-SE 100 index it is necessary to keep track of the prices of the 100 shares in the index i.e. £S , as well as the present value of the expected dividends before delivery for each of these 100 shares , i.e. £D , for each of the three available delivery dates . |
| 48 | Andersson measured the attractive power of the 36 males before and after the treatment ; and , to everyone 's delight , the number of nests on the territories of the artificially-lengthened males ' territories was higher ( Figure 8.6 ) . |
| 49 | ‘ Another large foreign entry can be expected again as it will be one of the last competitions before the Barcelona Olympics , ’ explained Michael Tucker . |
| 50 | One of his clients was Mike McGear , Paul McCartney 's brother and together they got up to some hair-raising pranks like trying to give a client a beer shampoo but drinking more of the vital ingredients before it so much as touched a single hair ! |
| 51 | Joan Sallis ( 1988:170 ) summed up some of the common problems before the 1988 Act began to bite : Governors say headteachers are defensive . |
| 52 | And none of the Sicilian tyrants before Agathokles ( end of the fourth century ; he was also the first Sicilian to call himself basileus , king ) put his own name on his coinage — contrast the HIΠ-issue of Hippias of Athens ( B. V. Head ( 1911 ) Historia numorum , Oxford , edn 2 , p. 377 ) , admittedly a coinage struck in exile at Sigeion , c.500 BC , but one which shows that the idea of a coin with an individual 's name on it was at least thinkable that early . |
| 53 | The disappearance of the rhynchosaurs , like the decline of the synapsid dicynodonts before them , seems to be associated with a decline of their food-plant ; this time , of the seed fern Dicroidium , which was giving way to the worldwide spread of the conifers . |
| 54 | Here , Leicestershire scored first , with a penalty from Paul Pugh , but North Midlands took most of the positive steps before reaching the break with a lead of 16-3 . |
| 55 | In fact they deserved every sympathy but they succeeded only in making themselves look obstructive and unreconstructed , relics of the pre-meritocratic days before the Heineken League , which of course they fought until the last ditch was so full of water they had to jump out . |
| 56 | He led off the line and stayed in front for five of the 15 laps before driving into the pits to have a misfire cured . |
| 57 | ( It was only a matter of a few days before a faster one appeared . ) |
| 58 | The delay in starting the course until January was caused by her leaving an interval of a few months before approaching Oxford . |
| 59 | Like the Victorian evolutionists before him , Hobhouse saw no error in seeking an element of progressive change in evolution . |
| 60 | Like the biological positivists before him , after a long treatise devoted to ‘ scientific rigour ’ he suddenly turns , at the crucial point , to unrigorous lay belief . |