Example sentences of "was [adv] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | The change that occurred was mostly before the Act , either despite the war or hindered by war conditions . |
| 2 | ‘ The time was right before the season started for us to part company and I 've never regretted it and neither have Norwich . |
| 3 | This was long before ‘ X ’ or any other ratings except those of the Catholic Church , and no one thought or cared to ask what was playing . |
| 4 | This was long before Nathaniel Ward ( 1791–1868 ) invented the invaluable closed Wardian case and there existed no means to guarantee the survival of living plants removed from their native habitat . |
| 5 | There was the school with its faded maps , its cardboard-mounted Ten Commandments and the Regulations of the National Commissioners of Education in Dublin ( for this was long before the Partition of Ireland ) , the De Vere Foster copybooks , Joyce 's histories , Sullivan 's geographies and grammars , long desks with the initials of past generations cut on both sides , clerical school management ( the Methodists controlled five schools in the area — Thomas Street , Edgarstown , Derrycarne , Cloncore and Ballinary ) , teachers paid by results and anxious under the eyes of H M Inspectors ( too often then unenlightened inquisitors ) . |
| 6 | Only the grandmother had even been inside Bourani ; and that was long before the war . |
| 7 | This was long before all things that girls wear could be studied and were exhibited on the way up the escalator at Piccadilly Underground . |
| 8 | It was long before dinner . |
| 9 | The future , it seemed , was all before him . |
| 10 | And this was all before half-time . |
| 11 | The authority decided to wait until all the evidence was in before interviewing any officer involved in the incident . |
| 12 | Ideally , the objective must be to have the accommodation returned to the same condition it was in before the lease . |
| 13 | We will not pay the cost of any repair or replacement which improves your car beyond the condition it was in before the loss or damage occurred . |
| 14 | We will not pay the cost of any repair or replacement which improves your car beyond the condition it was in before the loss or damage occurred . |
| 15 | We will not pay the cost of any repair or replacement which improves your car beyond the condition it was in before the loss or damage occurred . |
| 16 | ‘ She was down before me , breakfasted and lookin' as though she was just off to complete a big business deal in the money centre of BA or wherever . |
| 17 | It was as though all that had happened to her in the past year was suddenly before her , and all her own shortcomings into the bargain had landed on her in a heap , and were destroying her . |
| 18 | Stratigraphically the ditch was backfilled before the construction of the first phase of the priory church and was thus before AD 1090 . |
| 19 | The above argument is predicated on Coetzee 's assumption that the disruptive potential of the new organizations had been contained and that the ‘ crisis of Conservatism ’ was over before 1914 . |
| 20 | She hit her and at the same time as she hit her she virtually came to a er , a stop because of the fact she wa she started to brake as soon as she saw the the children appear er , but ne never the less contact was made but thankfully for her and for the child the the contact was a a at no significant speed , the child was just knocked off her feet and she got up and waved to Mrs and said I 'm alright and she ran off and she was away before Mrs had time , even to undo her safety belt to get out of the car . |
| 21 | It was shortly before noon when they reached the highway where they had first met Simon . |
| 22 | ( This was shortly before the scene I made in church , so maybe the two were connected . ) |
| 23 | It was shortly before the time Luke usually arrived on Fridays , and up until today she would have made some excuse to Florian , but reviviscent pride demanded a gesture . |
| 24 | It was shortly before ten o clock this mornng that an inmate took a civiliam employee hostage at Woodhill jail in Milton Keynes.Unconfirmed reports say the prisoner was on remand on a robbery charge , but was unarmned when the hostage was taken . |
| 25 | It was just before the Battle of Alamein — Bletchley was providing Montgomery with vital intelligence — and , had I but known it , Leslie was , almost at that same moment , listening on the wireless to ‘ One Fine Day ’ , and suffering because he thought he would never see me again . |
| 26 | It was just before closing time when a girl dropped an envelope in my lap . |
| 27 | It was just before low tide , and the whales were in about 2 m of water . |
| 28 | In this spirit I joined the Abortion Law Reform Association while still at school ; this was just before the passage of the 1967 Abortion Act . |
| 29 | The next high was just before twelve noon on Saturday … |
| 30 | The very first time I worked for Heather Wilkinson was just before my thirteenth birthday . |