Example sentences of "before the time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the time of Irenaeus , the sacred books of the Christians were in the main the Hebrew Bible , ‘ law , prophets , and writings ’ or ‘ Old Testament ’ . |
| 2 | The absence of endowments before the time of the Emperor Constantine inevitably meant that well-to-do Christians had much influence on their local communities , which could be decisive when a new bishop was being chosen . |
| 3 | There had been rich Christians before the time of Constantine , there had been educated or upper-class people to be found in Christian communities , and in growing numbers during the century before Constantine . |
| 4 | The seeds of the ideology behind this had been sown long before the time of Constantine . |
| 5 | if it shall appear by the record of the books , rolls and memoranda of his court , or by ancient perambulations , or by any other sufficient evidence , that any royal demesnes , or lands or woods which were in the forests before the time of Henry II , had been excluded by the late perambulations , then they shall be re-afforested . |
| 6 | It destroyed morale throughout the regime , forcing commanders and party chiefs to activate their tribal links with the Mujahideen and save their skins before the time of reckoning . |
| 7 | Long before the time of Aristoxenus , some of the most acute Greek thinkers had found that the concept of time was difficult to reconcile with their idea of rationality . |
| 8 | Even the concept of the hour was not used as a unit of duration before the time of Middle French . |
| 9 | It probably came there from Babylonia , where the simplest form of the outflow type had already been in use before the time of the early Shang period ( c. 1500 BC ) . |
| 10 | That means reporting to the receptionist about 15 minutes before the time of your interview . |
| 11 | Before the time of Sigmar the lands west of the Worlds Edge Mountains were as much a realm of Orcs as they were of Men . |
| 12 | But it is clear from Fulk le Réchin 's history that the counts themselves knew nothing of their ancestry before the time of Ingelgerus , Fulk the Red 's father , an indication of the block that earlier , looser kinship ties created in human memory . |
| 13 | Yet even before the time of this fictional dialogue , set in the 1870s , Jesus and the origins of Christianity had begun to emerge as a burgeoning industry for researchers , writers and publishers . |
| 14 | Egypt is a very humbling place , with its larger-than-life statues and obelisks serenely standing since before the time of Christ , and the mammoth pyramids whose blocks of stone weigh up to forty tons each ; this is a land which inspires constant awe and disbelief . |
| 15 | ( 5 ) No indemnity shall be payable under this Act in any of the following cases : — ( a ) where the applicant or a person from whom he derives title ( otherwise than under a disposition for valuable consideration which is registered or protected on the register ) has caused or substantially contributed to the loss by fraud or lack of proper care ; … ( 6 ) Where an indemnity is paid in respect of the loss of an estate or interest in or charge on land the amount so paid shall not exceed — ( a ) Where the register is not rectified , the value of the estate , interest or charge at the time when the error or omission which caused the loss was made ; ( b ) Where the register is rectified , the value ( if there had been no rectification ) of the estate , interest or charge , immediately before the time of rectification . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Whereas Indian , Malay , Arab and Chinese merchants had by and large traded peacefully for the exotic treasures of the islands since before the time of Christ , the marauding European buccaneers sought to own and control the real estate itself , and began four centuries of infighting . |
| 18 | He 'd another half-hour to go before the time of the meeting , but he wanted to see her arrive . |
| 19 | Such being the direct evidence for contacts between Greeks and Jews before the time of Alexander , we ask the obvious question : what did Greeks and Jews make of these various opportunities for meeting and knowing each other As for the Greeks , the answer is simple . |
| 20 | The first verbal description we have of this scene of Wagnerian grandeur dates from 1481 when William of Worcester ( despite his name a Bristolian born and bred ) described the camp on the Clifton side as ‘ founded before the time of William the Conqueror by Saracens or Jews or by one Ghyst a giant in the land . ’ |
| 21 | In this case to is required in order to represent the relation in time between the two positions of person involved here , one before the time of the infinitive 's event , the other at the beginning of its actualization . |
| 22 | The persons transferred automatically to the purchaser are all persons employed within the business being sold at or immediately before the time of sale whose contracts would otherwise ( at common law ) have been terminated by the sale . |
| 23 | However , the Capital Taxes Office is likely to raise the following " standard " question : what discussions took place between the parties at or before the time of the deed of variation about how the assets which went to the spouse under the deed of variation were to be dealt with by the surviving spouse , ie was there some sort of plan or understanding that the property would be given to the children ? |
| 24 | Where there has been malicious tampering of a product , if this occurs before the time of supply by , for example , an employee of the manufacturer , the latter will be strictly liable . |
| 25 | Principally there were at that time other interested parties in the premises er and also erm Mr saw it as essential er that er they were in and running the business er well before the time of the Christmas trade which was rapidly approaching then , then it being late August and er he wanted to make sure that they were in in in time for them to be able to take advantage of those bookings that they anticipated . |