Example sentences of "the [pron] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the strong suspicion seems justified that the speech , and the one before it in September , mainly warmed the hearts of the depressed Party faithful , and that the central SD digests were mainly recording reactions from the dwindling number of Party diehards . |
| 2 | Mada Joyce had , it seemed , no husband but seven children from three different fathers , each apparently blacker than the one before and the latest , who occasionally visited and made half-hearted repairs to the shack , Nana dismissed as ‘ nothing but pure Negro . ’ |
| 3 | There was a gap between the Jan/Feb issue and the one before that [ November '90 ] whilst publishing was sorted out , but so what ? |
| 4 | The outstanding feature of the new county system , as compared with the one before the 1972 Act took effect , is that the counties absorbed the hitherto independent county boroughs which thereupon ceased to exist , a decision which , in retrospect , some now think was a mistake , since the county boroughs were effective multipurpose authorities . |
| 5 | The one before it , the GR-50 was pretty spectacular , but on the album I still play my old GR-300 . |
| 6 | Although when regressed one does not go back to the immediate past life , then the one before it , then the one before that and so on , by the time Martin had experienced regression six times it was possible to put the lives in chronological order so that we could try and see if there was any lesson to be learnt from them . |
| 7 | Although when regressed one does not go back to the immediate past life , then the one before it , then the one before that and so on , by the time Martin had experienced regression six times it was possible to put the lives in chronological order so that we could try and see if there was any lesson to be learnt from them . |
| 8 | Kristeva 's model is not intended either as a concise account of feminism 's recent history nor as an orderly , linear chronology for feminists to follow ( though she does seem to think that each of her stages represents an improvement over the one before ) . |
| 9 | On the plus side , the multiload is well thought out and the game does n't auto-restart once later levels are reached ( HURRAH ! ) but when each level is exactly the same as the one before it , except with a different background it hardly matters . |
| 10 | I wish I could give you a simple straightforward answer , like " Each joke should be separated from the one before it by at least 1050 words ' . |
| 11 | However , the aim of the thing to bear in mind : each check in the chase to be worse than the one before it . |
| 12 | If the fact of ownership does not carry with it a moral right of control , then the property rights justification of corporate power collapses and the objection in the previous paragraph ( and the one before ) becomes irrelevant . |
| 13 | The bodies all appeared to be at slightly different stages of decomposition ; the one before them now looked to be the most recent of them all . |
| 14 | Again the forecast shows cycles , but this time the worst-case curve shows that each successive peak is at a lower level than the one before and each successive trough is deeper . |
| 15 | The first is er , erm , well let me put it this way , not the last one of the sessions I did here , but the one before that , there was a huge guy sitting about where Colin is sitting . |
| 16 | and I 've been up the one before that |
| 17 | Must have been the one before that . |
| 18 | is a preview the one before the their run . |
| 19 | The one before this one , co-incidentally , was a very broad one , which was an attempt at assessing the results of Five , which of course took place in Manila in May/June , and right after that , with the participation of some of the people who had been , in Five we tried to assess what impact , if any , their conference is going to make for the future of the world economic system . |