Example sentences of "before the arrival " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large-scale modifications were made to the BR locomotive fleet to both keep them running , and create a stop-gap before the arrival of new motive power for both passenger and freight use . |
| 2 | He was himself later to acknowledge the inadequacy of a production policy that drew so heavily on stage plays , particularly at a period before the arrival of sound when it was impossible , for example , to do more than allude to the savagery of Noël Coward 's attack on his social set in The Vortex ( 1927 ) . |
| 3 | It is likely that a group of fewer than 100 boat people will be sent back just before the arrival in Hong Kong of the Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , planned for mid-January . |
| 4 | Before the arrival of the Packman , filling sprayers at Overy Farm was done in much the same way as it is on thousands of farms across the country . |
| 5 | Pictures of the Führer and Party emblems , uniforms , and literature had been thrown away or burnt before the arrival of the Russian , American , or British troops . |
| 6 | Following the Orange Tree 's fine revival of Rodney Ackland 's The Dark River , this production offers further persuasive evidence that there was far more vitality in the English theatre before the arrival of the angry young men and the Royal Court revolution than is generally acknowledged . |
| 7 | Strachan and Birks agree that water vole numbers were in significant decline before the arrival of the mink — which can overcome the water vole 's traditional defences by following it into water and even , in the case of smaller mink , into its tunnels . |
| 8 | Spanish and Portuguese rule had been overthrown before the arrival of the railway , and the building of Latin American lines was to become the classic expression of the informal imperialism of Britain and the United States which penetrated the region from the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Boy did not throw these letters away ; he kept them all , and indeed read them not only on the day that they arrived but again and again during the week before the arrival of the next one , but he did not keep these letters in his box , and he did not reply to them either . |
| 10 | These Iron Age structures were built before the arrival of the Vikings ; but why they were built , or who their architects feared , remains a mystery to this day . |
| 11 | These were only replaced in August 1939 , one week before the arrival of the Second World War black-out . |
| 12 | The emphasis on terminal public examination tended , before the arrival of GCSE , to turn internal assessment into something of an interim process . |
| 13 | Before the arrival of the Romans , the native Britons had been skilled at many kinds of crafts . |
| 14 | Several local people had reason to be proud of the rescues they effected before the arrival of the rescue services . |
| 15 | It must have been difficult for the teachers to organize things even before the arrival of the evacuees , who had problems of their own , of course , adjusting to a major change in lifestyle . |
| 16 | Destroyer Flotilla before the arrival on 29 April of the 5th . |
| 17 | However Crete was invaded the day before the arrival of 800X at Malta , where they were now to remain , attached to 830 Squadron , and were to play the role of night intruders , attacking airfields in Sicily with 20 lb. bombs . |
| 18 | She was so excited to be returning that she was up before dawn and ready for the journey south long before the arrival of the taxi that was to take them to Berwick for the train to King 's Cross . |
| 19 | Already in Rio de Janeiro extensive preparations are underway to clean the city before the arrival of one hundred and forty five world leaders . |
| 20 | The advance party comprising Alcock — pilot , Brown — navigator , Ernie Pitman — foreman mechanic , Bob Dicker — flying controls , Monty Montague — chief erector and Bob Lyons — Rolls-Royce engineer , had set-off from Southampton on May 4 on board the Mauretania , arriving in St John 's by train before the arrival of the Vimy . |
| 21 | This was the stratum of society from which Eadmer had come before the arrival of the Normans , and it almost certainly continued to provide most of the monks after the Conquest also . |
| 22 | He could not wait to begin such a triumph , and prayed that the French would offer him the chance of glory before the arrival of any British reinforcements . |
| 23 | A telephone or telex request for accommodation is usually acknowledged by a ‘ confirmation slip ’ if there is time before the arrival of the guest . |
| 24 | In most areas in the UK , provision of support and preparation before the arrival of a child is minimal or non-existent . |
| 25 | As Truong Chinh is said to have told the ‘ People 's Congress ’ in August ‘ We must wrest power from the hands of the Japanese and their stooges before the arrival of the Allies in Indo-China , and , as masters of the country , we shall receive the Allies who come to disarm the Japanese . ’ |
| 26 | Mitchell appeared on the scene shortly before the arrival of Norman Bowler , a friend of Ricky Stride and one of the young men who used to meet at Runnymede on Sundays to exercise , camp or swim . |
| 27 | It may therefore have had an earlier importance as an alternative main road to Oxford in late Saxon times before the arrival of Woodstock . |
| 28 | Better performance for one hemifield could be due either to a longer duration of icon , thus allowing more information to be encoded before the icon fades , or to a faster encoding rate , allowing more information to be encoded before the arrival of the masking stimulus . |
| 29 | For centuries before the arrival of Westerners it had been the symbol of the soul and of eternal life ; and for the Chinese , who traded with the southern islands long before the time of Christ , the bird became associated with the phoenix myth — which crept across the continents into the mind of medieval Europe , even before it was known that the world was round . |
| 30 | For them , however , there was no single champion who had forged a South Slav empire which flourished before the arrival of the alien invaders , for until 1918 the Yugoslav peoples had never been united in a single state . |