Example sentences of "[adj] before [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who had planted it would want time to get clear before an explosion occurred greater than the blasts which had flattened Hiroshima and Nagasaki . |
| 2 | Placed abaft the column of her forward gun , the warhead would be protected from the impact of ramming the caisson as the bows crumpled , and the eight-hour delay chemical fuses would give the raiders time to get clear before the acid ate through copper discs . |
| 3 | He was clear before the storm-troopers could react . |
| 4 | The race is now on to show that the Government is wrong before the last bird in the UK is slaughtered . |
| 5 | I was billeted in a block of flats in St John 's Wood — luxurious before the lush fittings had been removed . |
| 6 | The motorist Mr Barnard Buys , who managed to wriggle free before the car exploded , said : ‘ They kicked me and boxed me . |
| 7 | There were few exceptions to the rule that the peoples of Siberia were illiterate before the Russians came . |
| 8 | Also , if the unit fails in the on position , the low wattage means that the temperature will not climb too high before the problem is seem ( with your free digital thermometer , of course ) . |
| 9 | After all Stonehenge was thousands of years old before the first bus-load pulled up . |
| 10 | Many deserted before the battle even started , and a number of nobles surrendered as soon as they could decently do so . |
| 11 | The tax treatment of unconditional deferred cash consideration may be disadvantageous to the vendors as capital gains tax may become payable before a deferred consideration is received . |
| 12 | The Inland Revenue will place a value on the future worth of an earnout agreement and , where this is to be satisfied in cash , capital gains tax may again become payable before the earnout payment is received . |
| 13 | I spoke to the NRA this morning and asked what consultations it had with the Environmental Advisory Unit of Liverpool University Ltd. before the unit produced its chapter of the full-length study on the Cardiff bay barrage proposal . |
| 14 | Estimates of the numbers in the trade , or of union membership , are necessarily vague before the union began publishing statistics in the mid-1870s . |
| 15 | Choreographers have to create dance movements which make their response to the music visible before the performers can communicate the music . |
| 16 | It is most important to get the fleece on early before the insects appear , ideally at the time of sowing or planting as appropriate . |
| 17 | I drove via Barking to call in on Duncan the Drunken before the traffic built up , but his garage was locked and that meant calling at the house . |
| 18 | With a payment under covenant , The Deed of Covenant has to be filled in corrected before a payment is made . |
| 19 | But , if the wife has been in receipt of the advice of a stranger whom the creditor believes on reasonable grounds to be competent , independent and disinterested , then the circumstances would need to be very exceptional before the creditor could be held bound by any equity which otherwise might arise from the husband 's conduct and his wife 's actual failure to understand the transaction … |
| 20 | These losses roughly equalled the total inflow into the Mediterranean before the dam was built . |
| 21 | Further iterations of the diagram are therefore likely before the final versions are produced . |
| 22 | The program runs continuously in ‘ film mode ’ but at the beginning the teacher sets the level of difficulty and the time-delay before the correct answer appears ; a sequence of randomly generated fractions follows . |
| 23 | They are present before a living organism takes up its physical form and suggest a potential state of the developing system . |
| 24 | While he provided a remarkably accurate description of the development of the chick , he remained convinced , against his own evidence , that the embryo was present before the egg was laid . |
| 25 | It goes without saying that while all this is going on the engineering investigator will be on the look-out for any indication of a pre-crash failure or fracture of any part of the structure or aircraft components since , although the wreckage will inevitably include very many broken units and pieces of structure , any serious defect that was present before the aircraft struck the ground is likely to be significant , if not fundamental , to the cause of the accident . |
| 26 | There are no screen credits at the beginnings of dreams to tell you what sort of film you are going to see , but there might as well have been in these nightmares , because the tenor , horror or guilt is excruciatingly present before the first scenes have even been played . |
| 27 | If you have the space , tape the ripstop to a flat surface first so that it is flat before the template is applied . |
| 28 | BT was technologically sluggish before the government put the frighteners on it . |
| 29 | The mask is useful before the patient reaches hospital , particularly when ventilation is required in suspected cervical spinal injury and movement of the patient is minimised , and for facial injuries , in which using a face mask is difficult . |
| 30 | It was late before the members of the council left Llewelyn 's chamber . |