Example sentences of "[noun pl] before the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the removal of the track brakes , few modifications seem to have been made to any of these cars before the 1914–1918 war . |
| 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 | Mr Monroe said the agency would do nothing about reports that investors in Texas and Arizona were buying apartments owned by failed thrifts before the 90-day period was up . |
| 4 | Present them with a vision of a world in which meals were eaten at a table instead of on the knees before the flickering screen ; in which conversation was commonplace ; political and social ideas worked out by individuals , not spoon-fed into the mind by paid commentators ; a TV-less world in which we danced and sang and played charades to entertain ourselves or even popped round to the neighbours ; in which our children were not fed visions of death and dead bodies on the daily news , their infant imaginations no longer turned feverish and fearful by the sobs and sorrows of the bereaved ; nor subject to the cruel , disagreeable and frequently morbid fictional fantasies of others — would we not really vote for this ? |
| 5 | He crossed the room then slowly lowered himself to his knees before the great tablet , conscious of how the gold leaf of the Ywe Lung seemed to flow in the wavering light of the candles ; how the red lacquer of the background seemed to burn . |
| 6 | Louis Chiron ( Fra ) Hermann Lang ( Ger ) and Rudolf Caracciola ( Ger ) were three of the leading drivers of the era but the greatest of all drivers before the second war was Italy 's Tazio Nuvolari . |
| 7 | Memorandum on classes of business not regarded as appropriate for Cabinet discussion ’ is a minute from Brook to Bridges dated 21 April 1950 , two months after Labour had been returned to power with a slim majority of six and two months before the Korean War stimulated a huge increase in defence spending . |
| 8 | Some months before the 1983 council elections the Labour Campaign for Gay Rights group in Nottingham initiated a debate among the lesbian and gay groups in the city , resulting in the publication of a charter , ‘ A Fair Deal For Gays ’ , which included proposals for council action around employment practices , housing , leisure services , etc . |
| 9 | Given these irreconcilable purposes it is Pham Van Dong and Giap , to take two symbols of Vietnamese intransigence , rather than Ho Chi Minh , who represented the reality of Franco-Vietnamese relations in the four or five months before the all-out war began in December 1946 ; even though it is tempting to consider how , up to the last minute , conflict might have been averted — or at least postponed . |
| 10 | Court Four of the Royal Courts of Justice in London was packed with judges and barristers to hear the support lent to Lord Lane , who announced in February that he was stepping down at the age of 73 , 18 months before the compulsory retirement age for judges . |
| 11 | Notification of the date for the hearing is usually available two to three months before the actual date . |
| 12 | Now that SunSoft has committed to new Solaris releases every six months , the features requirement list for each release closes some six months before the final code specification and the release date are fixed . |
| 13 | We will publish a draft Budget four months before the final version , to promote open discussion of economic and taxation policy . |
| 14 | It was to be many months before the new tsar accepted defeat in the Crimean War . |
| 15 | A senior commission official said last night : ‘ From a British point of view , Mrs Thatcher may have gained a few months before the crucial business of changing the Rome treaty gets under way but she now faces a cut-off date beyond which the other EC governments are unlikely to delay their acceptance of monetary union . ’ |
| 16 | Three months before the due date for setting down the court will issue reminder cards to parties in live cases stating the date by which their case is due to be set down . |
| 17 | Example 4:12 Rent review machinery ; no notice ; determination by expert ( 1 ) if the landlord and the tenant have not agreed the Market rent three months before the relevant review date it shall be determined by an independent surveyor acting as an expert ( 2 ) the independent surveyor shall ( a ) be appointed in default of agreement by the President ( b ) give the landlord and the tenant an opportunity to make representations to him and to reply to each other 's representations ( but shall not be bound by them ) ( c ) have power to determine how the costs of the reference shall be borne ( d ) publish his decision within two months of his appointment ( 3 ) if the independent surveyor dies delays or becomes unwilling or incapable of acting or if for any reason the President thinks fit he may discharge the independent surveyor and appoint another in his place and may repeat this procedure as often as necessary Example 4:13 Landlord 's option to select method of resolving disputes if the landlord and the tenant have not agreed the Market Rent three months before the relevant review date it shall be determined by arbitration or ( if the landlord so elects by notice in writing given not later than one month before the relevant review date time being of the essence ) by an independent surveyor acting as an expert |
| 18 | Example 4:12 Rent review machinery ; no notice ; determination by expert ( 1 ) if the landlord and the tenant have not agreed the Market rent three months before the relevant review date it shall be determined by an independent surveyor acting as an expert ( 2 ) the independent surveyor shall ( a ) be appointed in default of agreement by the President ( b ) give the landlord and the tenant an opportunity to make representations to him and to reply to each other 's representations ( but shall not be bound by them ) ( c ) have power to determine how the costs of the reference shall be borne ( d ) publish his decision within two months of his appointment ( 3 ) if the independent surveyor dies delays or becomes unwilling or incapable of acting or if for any reason the President thinks fit he may discharge the independent surveyor and appoint another in his place and may repeat this procedure as often as necessary Example 4:13 Landlord 's option to select method of resolving disputes if the landlord and the tenant have not agreed the Market Rent three months before the relevant review date it shall be determined by arbitration or ( if the landlord so elects by notice in writing given not later than one month before the relevant review date time being of the essence ) by an independent surveyor acting as an expert |
| 19 | if the landlord and the tenant have not agreed the Market Rent three months before the relevant review date it shall be determined by ( 1 ) an independent surveyor acting as an expert appointed in default of agreement by the President or ( 2 ) at the election of either party ( made not later than the making of an application to the President for an appointment time being of the essence ) by the person ( if any ) appointed to determine the rent payable under the headlease acting in the capacity in which he is appointed thereunder |
| 20 | We find that after the end of the eruptive activity in 1989 , fractures in the south-southeast flank of the volcano remained unfilled until some months before the 1991–93 eruption . |
| 21 | We can not afford to wait t a few months before the next election . |
| 22 | Again , the Gardens about Hammersmith are as famous for Strawberries , Raspberries , Currants , Gooseberries , and such like ; and if early fruit is our Desire , Mr. Millet 's at North End , near the same place , affords us Cherries , Apricocks and Curiosities of those kinds , some months before the Natural Season . |
| 23 | Beaverbrooks recommend you choose your wedding ring about three months before the big day so that you have no last minute worries . |
| 24 | After Josh had gone to bed , the three adults spent the evening roasting chestnuts before the living-room fire . |
| 25 | In the rest of the country we can not be sure of the date , although the evidence begins to suggest some time in the late Saxon period , the centuries before the Norman Conquest . |
| 26 | It begins to look as if villages , like fields and land units and much else in the landscape , were largely defined in the hazy centuries before the Norman Conquest , developing from complex and distant origins in earlier times . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | But representative assemblies of a kind , parliaments , had a history which went back many centuries before the modern revival of the idea of democracy , and these assemblies brought with them their own rather different concept of representation . |
| 29 | To take a genuine historical example , it was over seventy years before Copernicus 's prediction about the phases of Venus was found to be correct , and several centuries before the Copernican prediction that the fixed stars should exhibit parallax was confirmed . |
| 30 | Many of the rituals and formalities of diplomacy changed only slowly , sometimes hardly at all , during the two centuries before the French revolution . |