Example sentences of "a [noun sg] of [noun] before the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The workers merely wish to clear a backlog of clients before the afternoon session begins . |
| 2 | The Midlands ' shop stewards knew it was only a question of time before the strike affected supplies to their own plants and those in the South , jeopardising the recovery plan which had been producing such vast improvements in performance . |
| 3 | On this last point , it is worth emphasizing , in advance of the evidence , that Nietzsche did certainly reject a quantity of material before the final draft , but that few of the " suppressed " passages are at all long and none are strikingly impressive . |
| 4 | He was football 's equivalent of Popeye — he probably had a can of spinach before the game . |
| 5 | It was a re-run of events before the Polehill release eight days ago . |
| 6 | Proposals should have to be advertised locally , the manifesto says , and customers should be given a right of audience before the licensing authorities to oppose unwelcome changes . |
| 7 | There is always a moment of silence before the audience respond , so strong has been the tension . |
| 8 | Domestic service was a commonplace of life before the First World War , even among the better paid working-class households . |
| 9 | deeds For such orders , the court drafts these and sends them with a notice of appointment before the district judge to all parties not less than seven days before the appointment ( Ord 22 , r 7(1) — ( 5 ) ; otherwise the court simply prepares the orders and sends them out . |
| 10 | Failure to state reasons , or adequate reasons , is frequently invoked as a ground of annulment before the European Court ; and as a result there is a substantial amount of case law on the subject . |
| 11 | It was like a vision of Scotland before the Fall . |
| 12 | Peres 's efforts to form a new government were thwarted a matter of hours before the April 11 Knesset confidence debate was set to open when two of the five ultra-orthodox Agudat Yisrael members withdrew their support from Labour , saying that they could not support a government sustained by Arab supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization . |
| 13 | A matter of hours before the Jan. 16 deadline agreement was reached on the final outstanding issues — computer software and chemical patents . |
| 14 | The PBS , a BN component since 1986 , switched its allegiance to the opposition a matter of days before the election . |
| 15 | It was only a matter of time before the ultimate blonde bombshells of designer fashion and pop joined forces . |
| 16 | Jerusalem , the very heart of Christendom , had been captured and it could only be a matter of time before the remaining Christian forces , still holding on at Tyre , Tripoli and Antioch , were overcome or expelled . |
| 17 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 18 | With the merchandising machine grinding into production , 100,000 T-shirts already selling every week , along with video games , mugs and comic books , it 's surely only a matter of time before the simple-minded feline Stimpy and the maniacal chihuahua Ren make their debut on our shores . |
| 19 | IF THE life stories of Billie Holliday , Loretta Lynn and Pasty Cline were interesting enough to inspire major Hollywood movies , it 's surely only a matter of time before the Dinah Washington biopic arrives . |
| 20 | With such tourist pulling potential it was only a matter of time before the line of sections of it would hum again to wheel flange above fishplate … and so it proved in 1972 when a narrow gauge scheme was hatched to open 5.5. miles of trackbed between Pant ( Merthyr Tydfil ) and Torpantau . |
| 21 | It would only be a matter of time before the strong-willed de Gaulle would seek to reshape the EEC according to his own conceptions . |
| 22 | Tension was continuous , and it was only a matter of time before the two countries slipped into total war . |
| 23 | This implicit acceptance of the wider consequences of removing the right to abortion — opinion surveys showed consistent majority support for retaining the 1973 precedent — together with the emergence of the three-member centrist bloc on the Court , threw doubt on the widespread assumption that it was only a matter of time before the Court eventually overturned Roe v. Wade . |
| 24 | Already Washington knew that it was only a matter of time before the USSR was in a position to present a serious nuclear threat to the United States itself . |
| 25 | This information was requested from the registrar general wherever presenile dementia or Alzheimer 's disease was a cause of death before the age of 73 . |
| 26 | He was district secretary of the ITGWU and had stood on the NILP ticket a number of times before the split of 1949 , when he went over to the Irish Labour Party . |
| 27 | Sometimes it is awkward because with all the excitement you tend to go to the lavatory a number of times before the race , which leads to difficulty later on . |
| 28 | Like countless adverts for soap powder , shampoo , tropical fruit drinks , deodorants , which had been absorbed into her memory during hours of television watching , the world they inhabited in this fantasy was innocent and carefree , a garden of Eden before the Fall . |
| 29 | The modern conception is built on a principle of equality before the law ; the ancient conception is entirely compatible with a slave society . |
| 30 | I 'd been jumping up and down like an eejit for a couple of minutes before the bloke next to me tapped me politely on the shoulder to point out the linesman and his flag . |