Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] prior " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tied cottagers received protection under the Rent Act 1957 only in so far as they were ‘ tenants ’ who were entitled to four weeks ' notice to quit and could not be evicted without prior warning . |
| 2 | If there is one general visual recognition system then visual word recognition should be primed by prior picture presentation ; since this is not so , it can be inferred that visually presented words are recognised by a system specific to words — a visual word-recognition system . |
| 3 | Visits to observe lessons should only be made by prior appointment with the headteacher , all concerned knowing of the visit well in advance . |
| 4 | Consenting to have one 's mail opened by another , to be visited without prior arrangement , and to have another arrange aspects of one 's plans or activities without prior consultation ( e.g. accepting invitations in one 's name ) may or may not be justified by their instrumental value , but in any case they are taken in our culture as expressing the existence of certain attitudes , as in part constituting those attitudes . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , as discussed in section 5.2.1 , the eurobond market 's development in London can be attributed to prior development of the eurocurrency market , London 's overall infrastructure as a financial centre , the innovative merchant banks with a long tradition of intermediating financial flows , and the comparatively relaxed regulatory and fiscal regime . |
| 6 | On the basis of their findings , Braveman and Jarvis ( 1978 ) put forward the suggestion that latent inhibition derives from a loss of effectiveness by the specific cues that characterize the CS ( and thus requires pre-exposure to that very stimulus ) , whereas neophobia is taken to be a reaction to the aversive properties of novelty per se and can be attenuated by prior exposure to any other novel event ( see also Braveman 1978 ) . |
| 7 | It also concluded that : — There seems little likelihood that scientific experiments will be able to demonstrate the effectiveness of primary prevention in the population as a whole , and thus decisions on preventive policy must be reached without prior experimental tests . ’ |
| 8 | Second , the formulation of the Authority 's educational policies and programmes , especially those which teachers are expected to translate into day-to-day practice , should from now on be grounded in prior consultation with teachers and others , together with analysis of relevant conceptual and empirical research , and those devising such policies and programmes should be able to justify them in terms of the considerations which this process will reveal . |
| 9 | The argument about whether God exists can not be settled without prior agreement as to who or what God is . |
| 10 | None of these will be documented without prior consent . |
| 11 | Extracts from ‘ News & Views ’ should not be published without prior permission from the Editor . |