Example sentences of "they were before the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lesbians and gays are expressing themselves differently from the way they were before the Clause , but they are still saying as openly and as proudly as ever that they want the boundaries changed . |
| 2 | The inevitable result is that the more adventurous or less safe ways of operating public transport aircraft are far less common now than they were before the days of flight recorders . |
| 3 | Cognito , the UK two-way paging service re-born after a management buyout last year , has got coverage and subscriber numbers back to around the level they were before the service 's first incarnation folded . |
| 4 | This involves the parties being returned to their positions as they were before the contract , i. e. the return of the price to the buyer and the goods to the seller . |
| 5 | The International Atomic Energy Agency 's marine environment laboratory says that parts of the Gulf are cleaner than they were before the war , although there are still heavily contaminated spots . |
| 6 | But Wales manager Terry Yorath insisted : ‘ Our chances of going to the United States now are as good as they were before the game . |
| 7 | The government 's er oil revenues have gone up by £345 million , er that 's an average of £7.1 million a day , since the Gulf crisis started , and er they 're now running at over £13 million a day more than they were before the crisis commenced . |
| 8 | It 's staging its own marches to counter the official demonstration and it 's changing some street names back to what they were before the revolution . |