Example sentences of "[that] [adv] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Hartwell Schulman of the Institute of Medical Climatologists has shown that just before a storm there is a reduction in atmospheric pressure which causes blood circulation to slow down . |
| 2 | Tacitus records that just before his death the defeated Calgacus denounced the Romans as ‘ Pillagers of the world … to robbery , butchery and rapine they give the lying name of ‘ government ’ ; they create desolation and call it peace . ’ |
| 3 | My impression is that just before his death Paul Gray was under some sort of pressure . |
| 4 | On a different plane , it may be noted that just before 1984 's seven-country G7 economic summit in London , Japan was clamouring for access , in the event of a supply disruption , to the US SPR . |
| 5 | The dead man 's sister , Pilar , said that shortly before his death she found in his apartment reams of sex notes from Dr Bean-Bayog , including hundreds of handwritten letters . |
| 6 | He even said that shortly before his death Mr Hancock had suggested that his wife might , despite his failing health , be willing to spend the night with him . |
| 7 | The Derry Journal of 30 August reported that shortly before the beginning of the corporation 's monthly meeting , ‘ the Guildhall foyer was crowded with men , women and children waiting to voice their protest ’ . |
| 8 | He told police that shortly before 6pm on Monday he spotted them sunbathing naked , but did not go near . |
| 9 | I can only imagine that shortly before the excursions a long double headed steam train must have travelled from Shrewsbury to Machynlleth , but I do n't know the times . |
| 10 | The Practice Statement referred to ‘ the especial need for certainty as to the criminal law , ’ but there is ample proof that both before and after Morris certainty has been lacking . |
| 11 | BR could claim that even before the Monopoly Commission report 's comments on the need for a new rolling-stock policy it was moving towards the development of stock for use on all regions , having introduced Class 313 25kV AC/750V DC ( dual voltage ) inner-suburban stock in 1976 for the Great Northern electrification scheme followed in 1978 by Class 507 750V DC third-rail stock for Merseyrail ( Midland Region ) ; and Class 314 25kV AC stock in Scotland . |
| 12 | This would mean that even before fertilisation , the female gamete could be damaged if alcohol is consumed . |
| 13 | The increasing numbers of monks in the tenth and eleventh centuries show that even before the papal reform the life of celibacy had a large number of devotees . |
| 14 | The survival of many stone walls and buildings , and especially churches , from the centuries of this book , testifies that even before the mid twelfth century their wealth and pride and religious sentiment were sufficient to beautify them in lasting materials — and often , and especially with the smaller ones , their condition reflects the declining prosperity of later centuries which saved their older buildings from being replaced . |
| 15 | It seems reasonable to suppose that even before 1790 he would have learned to appreciate their attitudes towards recent history . |
| 16 | Things look very black for Galway today , but there is every reason to believe that even before DEC finally shutters its factory in about a year from now , a new tenant will be poised to move in and occupy it . |
| 17 | Alisjahbana declares that even before the war he ‘ showed a leaning towards … |
| 18 | In some cases , however , such as the Khanty and Mansin the accepted view is that even before their subjection to the Russians their clan system was in decline and ‘ feudal ’ relations were developing , with the emergence of princes and social inequality . |
| 19 | Holmes J. recognised that it might not be possible to establish the forfeiture without quo warranto but considered that even before or until such a proceeding the effect of the clause upon the plaintiffs ' business could be serious , and ( 2 ) the incurring of a penalty which would continue to accrue and accumulate pending litigation should the plaintiffs ultimately fail . |
| 20 | On the basis that even before Pepper v. Hart a wider range of parliamentary material might be judicially considered to determine the mischief , presumably the same range of material may , if it is necessary , be admitted as contextual parliamentary material . |
| 21 | In the light of this discussion , we can see that even before Socrates there was a spirit hostile to the Dionysiac . |
| 22 | Indeed , Dr Thirsk has suggested that even before the end of the seventeenth century new consumer goods were absorbing an increasing share of the nation 's economic resources . |
| 23 | So well organised in support of their pay were the highly skilled journeymen calico printers in the late eighteenth century that even before the advent of machine printing de-skilled them , some employers turned to alternative methods of patterning cloths which used cheaper female and child labour . |
| 24 | LOOKING BACK , it s now possible to see that well before the Chernobyl accident in the Soviet Union the storm clouds were gathering for the nuclear dream . |
| 25 | He knows and I know that well before the six o'clock bulletin started they found that one of the flats was empty , and they asked where was the guy inside . |