Example sentences of "[noun pl] before the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Both types were fitted with top-deck covers before the First World War , as seen on this page , but more extensive rebuilding followed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? ’ |
| 8 | Italy , Russia , and Austria lagged further behind , their major period of industrialization being concentrated in the last three decades before the First World War . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ( 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 . |
| 11 | They were rarely made in the days before the first Enclosure Acts . |
| 12 | Now right at the beginning of a claim you can have an odd number of days before the first benefit week ending day . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 10. ( 1 ) An application to a licensing board of any kind mentioned in subsection ( 6 ) below in respect of any premises shall be in such form as may be prescribed , shall be completed and signed by the applicant or his agent , and shall be lodged with the clerk of the licensing within whose area the premises are situated not later than five weeks before the first day of the meeting of the board at which the application is to be considered . |
| 17 | ( 5 ) In the case of an application for the grant or provisional grant of a new licence , the applicant shall , not later than three weeks before the first day of the meeting of the board at which the application is to be considered , give notice in writing of the application to every occupier of premises situated in the same building as the premises to which the application relates . |
| 18 | Such applications are to be made in such form as the board may prescribe , by the applicant or his agent , and lodged with the clerk to the licensing hoard at least five weeks before the first day of the meeting at which the application falls to be considered ( subs . |
| 19 | ( 1 ) The clerk of a licensing board shall , in accordance with the provisions of this section , not later than three weeks before the first day of the meeting of the board at which the applications are to be considered , cause to be published in one or more newspapers circulating in the area of the board a list of all competent applications made to the board for the grant , including the provisional grant , of a new licence ; the regular extension of permitted hours . |
| 20 | The advertisement is to be made at least three weeks before the first day of the meeting of the board at which the applications are to be considered ( subs . |
| 21 | Education in Wolverton was well established thirty years before the first Education Act . |
| 22 | Here , contamination with metals , says Battarbee , occurs ‘ about ten years before the first evidence of acidification ’ , which suggests that it took only ten years to exhaust the lake 's capacity to buffer pollution . |
| 23 | In the thirty years before the First War purists and feminists consistently argued that criminal law legislation was the key to improving the nation 's morals . |
| 24 | Sexuality was a major political issue in the suffrage movement.During the years before the First War the history of sexual politics became intimately bound up with the progress of feminism . |
| 25 | Though purity remained hegemonic in the years before the First War , there was another feminist strategy for speaking about sex . |
| 26 | This military model of the disciplined body , responding instantly to word of command , remained paramount in the years before the First War . |
| 27 | It was the changed set of political and social conditions in the years before the First War which paved the way for the re-emergence of an alliance between medics , natural scientists and the established church . |
| 28 | This pattern of parliamentary activity was rapidly altered ( though much of the descriptive language remained the same ) in the twenty-five years before the First World War . |
| 29 | Even in India , where railway-building developed rapidly between the 1860s and 1880s , the crucial feeder lines most important to the exploitation of India 's resources were only built in the twenty years before the First World War . |
| 30 | This process was to gain momentum in the last three decades of the nineteenth century , reaching a peak in the years before the First World War . |