Example sentences of "[conj] before the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an aid is granted without informing the Commission or before the Commission has had sufficient time to examine the aid , the Court has recently held that the Commission has power to take interim measures ordering the member states concerned to suspend the aid and provide the Commission with all relevant information . |
| 2 | In a letter to Suger , Robert of Montfalcon declared that a case over whether or not a certain man was his serf should be tried either in the royal court or before the archbishop of Bourges , provided that the proceedings were in accordance with the customs of Bourges ; for him , the consuetudines of his native town had assumed the status of a law binding on outside authorities . |
| 3 | We had to get on to the barge before these two characters unwittingly alerted the army sentries across the road , or before the Friends of the Tourists turned up looking for us . |
| 4 | ( b ) An executor or administrator for trespasses committed to goods of the deceased after his death but before probate is granted to the executor or before the administrator takes out letters of administration . |
| 5 | Most of these practices have practitioners trained overseas or before the vocational training scheme became mandatory . |
| 6 | Typically there is a long latent period between radiation exposure and detection of a tumour , which is because of the time required for sufficient increase in the size of the tumour to make it detectable , and may also be due in part to a form of induction period before the initially affected cell or cells start to divide and form a tumour , or before the tumour assumes ‘ malignant ’ characteristics of growth and spreading . |
| 7 | At or before the first directions appointment or hearing , whichever occurs first , the applicant must file at court a statement on Form CHA 72 confirming that a copy of the application has been served on each respondent ( FPCR , r4(7) ; FPR , r4.4(7) ) . |
| 8 | However , where a charge is delivered together with an application to register a transfer involving monetary consideration or before the application is completed , Sched 4 , Abatement 1 , provides that no fee is payable for the registration of the charge . |
| 9 | The forms need to show the maximum possible numbers to include everyone on role at any time between January and December — please return them at or before the Reunion , but let us know verbally as soon as possible of any major changes — the office likes to give up to date information to enquirers . |
| 10 | It has been completely eradicated from Greece since 1973 , where before the Second World War it caused an estimated one to two million cases annually . |
| 11 | Raym. 742 , where before the revolution of 1688 the plaintiff had sentence from James II 's High Commissioners to pay a sum of money to the defendant and did pay it . |
| 12 | Medics presented glowing testimonies to successive government inquiries on the marvellous conversion worked by the acts ; where before the conduct of prostitutes was miserable in the extreme , now they had common decency and self-respect . |
| 13 | After training has finished the blood supply is reduced and the ‘ pump ’ disappears , resulting in the muscle being smaller than before the exercise started . |
| 14 | It is interesting that the Treasury was only willing to publish the White Paper in the autumn of each year after rather than before the hard decisions fur the third year had been taken , and made no commitment to publish the Medium Term Economic Assessment , actually refusing to do so in 1971 . |
| 15 | Basically Grinols considers how much income do individuals in the UK need at the set of prices which prevail after integration to be no worse off than before the integration took place . |
| 16 | Faster than before the ruror than before the reforms were introduced and faster than population growth , leaving room there for for some modest increase in average incomes . |
| 17 | He said the Government believed NHS resources should be used to enhance patient care and the number of eye tests being done was higher than before the charges were introduced . |
| 18 | These embryologists , who do not call themselves pre-embryologists , never used that before the Warnock committee drew that line . |
| 19 | As I took my place with two jamjars in my first Saturday morning kids matinee queue , apprehensive lest the currency had been devalued or even replaced with money , I observed that not only were Royals the heroes in the films but that my choice of cinema was between the Queens and the Royal , and I was warned that before the performance you were supposed to stand for the pianist 's rendition of ‘ God Save the King ’ . |
| 20 | They claimed that before the cameras began to roll Kylie and Charlie could be seen locked in heated discussion abut just how heavy they should get in the love scene . |
| 21 | Speaking after the news that the Liberal Democrats had taken Cheltenham , he prophesied that before the night was out there would be many more new Liberal Democrat Members of Parliament . |
| 22 | Bearing in mind the course leaders ' concern to instil or reinforce responsible drinking attitudes and behaviour , it is worth noting that before the course 77 per cent of the participants agreed with the statement ‘ To enjoy yourself , it is necessary to have something to drink ’ ; yet by the end of the course 88 per cent disagreed with this attitude . |
| 23 | The Elton Report recommends that if a pupil is to be readmitted to school after an indefinite period of exclusion , the school should ensure that before the pupil is allowed to return his/her parent signs an agreement in which the terms of the pupil 's readmission have been spelt out . |
| 24 | It is obvious that before the sample was obtained another form of natural selection had been in progress : earlier purchases by the public and by the booksellers themselves . |
| 25 | I talked to Assemblyman Barry Keene , who , as Chairman of the California State Assembly Health Committee , wrote the bill and piloted it through the Legislature , and asked him first whether he felt that before the Act there was a grey area of uncertainty surrounding these problems . |
| 26 | I had forgotten that before the war there had been no Women 's Auxiliary Air Force to build barrack blocks for , as the Force only came into being in 1939 . |
| 27 | In this way , we see that before the brain can be used as an instrument for ACTION , it first has to be used as an instrument for INACTION . |
| 28 | It was decided that before the last section of the barrier was breached , a test hole would be bored and if the gases flowed through to the men , the hole would be sealed and some other means of rescue sought . |
| 29 | The fact is that before the evening was over I had not only penetrated Karen sexually , but perhaps even more important we had shared a good laugh together at Dennis 's expense . |
| 30 | They were also admired for their military prowess , it being widely assumed that before the arrival of the British the Masai had been paramount among the tribes of East Africa ; they were ‘ aristocrats and formerly conquered east central Africa ’ . |