Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] before the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 2 | Promotion and relegation issues are invariably not settled before the last week of the season , so there would be no point in clubs signing players only for them to kick their heels after the deadline . |
| 3 | If , however , the suspect piece turned out to be an aluminium bronze ( as was recently the case with some coins purporting to be Anglo-Saxon ) , then one could reject it straight away because aluminium , and thus aluminium bronze , was not known before the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Hamlets and farmsteads within the parishes of these villages were generally not documented before the twelfth or thirteenth centuries and were therefore assumed to be secondary or daughter settlements created as the population expanded , more land was cleared and farmed , and new settlements were needed . |
| 5 | Normally , the Maternity Pay Period ( MPP ) can not start before the eleventh week before the expected week of confinement ( EWC ) . |
| 6 | These surveys , although not published before the first major statement on the curriculum , must have influenced HMI thinking . |
| 7 | She had wanted to draw again , and to paint , and she had not wondered before the first class as to the group she would be joining . |
| 8 | For example , supposing you erm , this , this , this was used principally in child analysis , which did n't exist before the First World War , it was developed afterwards . |