Example sentences of "[noun sg] before the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The archetype here is Guillaume Apollinaire , special pleader for modernism before the first World War . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( viii ) The prisoner may make representations to the local review committee before the first review . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | JOHN NEVILLE CRAWFORD was one of the outstanding young cricketers of the era before the First World War . |
| 10 | Dietary iron intake was measured by a prospective seven day diary record of weighed and estimated food intake in patients who had not changed their diet before the first attendence or were not admitted for investigations to be performed . |
| 11 | The incidence of crowd misbehaviour reached a high point before the First World War , fell between the two World Wars , and continued to fall until the late-1950s , since when it continued to increase quite rapidly ( Dunning et al. , 1982 ; 1984 ) . |
| 12 | The first of these would imply that Scaevola regarded the trust clause as ineffective ; the second that it was effective but limited to legal events which took place before the first will . |
| 13 | Since the letting can not be conceived as existing before the event permitted gets under way , to is not used with let , just as it is not used with see because seeing can not be conceived as taking place before the first moment of the event seen . |
| 14 | Taken together , the studies carried out by social , economic and political revisionists have opened the way to a far-reaching reassessment of the dynamics of popular unrest during Nicholas II 's reign , the role of the revolutionary intelligentsia , the prospects of stable capitalist and western-style democratic development in the period before the First World War , and the drama of 1917 itself . |
| 15 | I assume that in each case time in custody before trial is counted as part of the period before the first review . |
| 16 | Evidence exists from the period before the First War to show that some women were choosing not to have sexual relations with men as a political act . |
| 17 | There was to be only one preview before the first night . |
| 18 | Man knew more about the landscape of the moon before the first landing than we know about ‘ afterlife ’ . |
| 19 | In the main cities , the early primitive stations were replaced by grandiloquent specimens in the last years of the nineteenth century and in the decade before the First World War . |
| 20 | On March 9 , the day before the first session of the new Assembly , President Paul Biya held talks with MDR leader Dakole Diassala , reportedly in an attempt to secure the MDR 's support for the RPDC , and thus to give the ruling party an absolute majority in the Assembly . |
| 21 | We already had the French and Germans with us , and we divided the remaining eighty-odd delegates between us so that on the day before the first meeting we could explain our intentions and our reasoning to as many delegates as we could find . |
| 22 | These arguments are given credibility by Pareto 's ambiguous reaction to the rise of Italian fascism , and by Michels ' conversion from a socialist syndicalist espousing the use of a general strike before the First World War to an enthusiastic apologist for fascism in the 1920s ( Beetham , 1977 ) . |
| 23 | The Home Office directs the police , rather than ( as used to be the case before the First World War ) local magistrates , many of whom were owners of local industries , with a vested interest in the breaking of strikes . |
| 24 | During the Renaissance , and especially in Shakespeare 's case before the First Folio , such textual authority did not exist . |
| 25 | Therefore it was supposed that payments practices , and other institutional arrangements which change only slowly over time , have more influence on the velocity of circulation than any temporary changes in M. Before the First World War there may have been a good deal of truth in this assumption because the financial system was relatively unsophisticated and financial innovation was taking place very slowly by today 's standards . |
| 26 | In some patients , there was four-fold increase in antibody response before the first sputum culture of P cepacia . |
| 27 | As far as I am aware , there was good feeling between the candidates during the election , and I was somewhat surprised to read in Susan Crosland 's splendid biography of her husband that Roy Hattersley had told him I was angry that he was standing , and that he must give me his support before the first ballot or I would have no interest in him . |
| 28 | The company made at least one take-over of another East End brewery before the First World War , John Furze and Co 's St George brewery , Church Lane , Whitechapel , in 1901 . |
| 29 | And veteran broadcaster Mark Page , who is back with the station , popped into the studios to wish his colleague good luck before the first broadcast of the Mark Turnbull Sunday Phone-In . |
| 30 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |