Example sentences of "[vb pp] well before " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there are likely to be difficulties about accommodation for yourself as the daughter at home , after your parent 's death , contact should be made well before this event is imminent with the Housing Manager of the local council for advice , and you might write also to the Housing Corporation Head Office , Maple House , 149 Tottenham Court Road , London W1P 0BN , who will send a free directory of registered Housing Associations and other housing schemes in the area of your choice , so that you can begin forward planning . |
| 2 | Convenient as it is to date the militarization of the Cold War from the outbreak of the war in Korea in June 1950 , warning signs of increasing East–West tension had occurred well before that crisis . |
| 3 | ‘ The offensive is the fire which advances ; the defensive the fire which stops , ’ said Pétain ; ‘ Cannon conquers , infantry occupies ’ ( a conclusion he had reached well before Falkenhayn composed his Verclun Memorandum ) . |
| 4 | THE CLASS of a locomotive can often be detected well before it appears on the scene simply by the sound of its whistle . |
| 5 | And there 's only one post on Saturday and this had arrived well before I left ? ’ |
| 6 | Luckily for Ruggles it was filed well before the US Patent Office began to ask inventors to pay renewal fees . |
| 7 | Get all rehearsals finished well before the audience begins to arrive . |
| 8 | Whereas in Britain ( and Sweden ) , the state controlled the Church , feudalism had ended well before it generally disappeared elsewhere in Europe , and manhood suffrage had been extended to large sections of the population — unlike most continental countries where it was attained only at a later date , sometimes not until the early part of the present century . |