Example sentences of "before [coord] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , on half a dozen occasions or more the negotiating teams on both sides gathered , either before or at dinner , to seek to resolve the detailed problems before the Goodman proposals were ultimately embodied in legislation . |
| 2 | Juvenile diabetes is an ailment that strikes its victims before or during adolescence , destroying their bodies ' abilities to produce insulin , the hormone that enables the body to use and store sugar . |
| 3 | On the other hand , the defendant should not be liable where he inflicts injury before or during intercourse but without that aim in view . |
| 4 | It would thus lie possible for studies to be pursued either full- or part-time , before or during employment as a church musician . |
| 5 | We therefore interpret magnetizations of high unblocking temperature and high to moderate coercivity found in undeformed parts of the granitic intrusions ( Tsm and Ttp ) as having been acquired just before or during mylonitization of structurally higher rocks . |
| 6 | Instead , girls who marry or begin sexual congress before or around puberty tend to experience a longer interval between marriage or conjugal union and first birth than do their counterparts who marry later . |
| 7 | In both groups more patients had a normal cardiac trace during the procedure than before or after gastroscopy . |
| 8 | According to Wagner 's theory , a period of exposure to the context alone , given either before or after exposure to the target stimulus in that context , should attenuate latent inhibition . |
| 9 | Resting and pressure in older patients did not differ significantly from that in younger patients , either before or after operation ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 10 | The maximum squeeze pressure in older patients did not differ significantly from that in younger patients , either before or after operation ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 11 | When sensory thresholds in patients over 50 were compared with sensory thresholds in patients under 50 , no significant difference was found either before or after operation ( Fig 5 ) . |
| 12 | Other features like glottal stops , devoicing , slowing down and speeding up before or after pause , etc. , may also cause pronunciation difficulties and require practice . |
| 13 | These individuals are then subjected to differential survival through the operation of a range of mortality factors that eliminate them either before or after reproduction . |
| 14 | In practice , at least in South-East Asia , it made all the difference whether aid was given before or after independence . |
| 15 | Unfortunately plasma amylase activities were not assessed before or after surgery . |
| 16 | ‘ I have always been tested before or after competition and I am prepared to be tested any time by the IAAF . ’ |
| 17 | As most of us have to work to earn a living , the short winter days limit our riding considerably and leave us with the choice of riding before or after work in the dark or only at weekends , unless you are lucky enough to have access to an indoor school . |
| 18 | The Down 's Syndrome Association desperately need volunteers to give up a few hours before or after work on Thursday June 24 to help them collect donations at mainline stations . |
| 19 | Some schools , e.g. in East London and Liverpool , adjusted their hours to take account of the needs of poorer children both for earnings and education , beginning or ending the school day later or earlier than was the custom , enabling schoolchildren to work before or after school . |
| 20 | No dilatation was performed before or after insertion of the metal mesh stent whose complete expansion is spontaneously achieved after five days . |
| 21 | Other types of severe mental handicap are either environmental , ie caused by accidents or injuries before or after birth , and due to unknown causes . |
| 22 | Last week the UK Department of Health confirmed its earlier recommendations that the risk of cot death is reduced if infants are laid to sleep on their backs , if they are not exposed to cigarette smoke before or after birth , and if they are not overwrapped or overheated , especially when feverish or unwell . |
| 23 | If that is wrong , let them tell us why , rather than differentiate between dead bodies on the basis of whether a diagnosis was made before or after death , or whether the patient stops breathing in the accident and emergency department rather than a medical ward . |
| 24 | In contrast with our patient , although no material was available either before or after death for histological study , the absence of complete obstruction and the spontaneous resolution suggests that the ureteric obstruction was a result of compression from the pseudocyst . |
| 25 | Should it be done before or after lettering , and what is the best form of lettering to use ? |
| 26 | These however , were summer hours , and as the days shortened into winter with lighting not practicable for the surface sheds and floors — no work was done before or after daylight . |
| 27 | ( 1 ) Find an anthology of poetry , and open it at page 50 ; take the first poem on that page ( all of it , including any part before or after page 50 ) , and answer the eight questions on p. 52 , section 3.1 . |
| 28 | Companies can choose whether the figure of profit that will determine the PRP is to be taken before or after tax , goodwill , interest receivable , interest payable , research and development , and other items . |
| 29 | Pit helmets ( hard hats ) were worn in club colours at matches before & during skinhead , so they were not a skinhead ‘ style ’ . |
| 30 | From mother to child before and during birth . |