Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun sg] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | defiance of house rules ( e.g. breaking rules about playing with matches , about not switching on the TV before the children 's programmes begin , about sitting at the table until the meal is finished , or about not taking food out of the fridge without permission ) ; |
| 2 | The businessman was staring in angry disbelief at the glittering computer graphic that hung on the screen before him . |
| 3 | He switched on the light before holding up the picture for Wycliffe 's inspection . |
| 4 | Whichever theory is correct , we can only be sure of the distribution of the tiger today , or rather the day before yesterday . |
| 5 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |
| 6 | He gulped down the mouthful before saying : ‘ Well , that 's pretty obvious , if I may say so . |
| 7 | Later I found out that a standby wife had got halfway down the aisle before turning back , remorseful at abandoning her husband , leaving one empty seat — my seat , I brooded , as I waited for the next flight . ) |
| 8 | George Raft , originally set to take the non-speaking title role , turned down the offer before shooting , reportedly because of ill health , and was replaced by Cesar Romero , in what was barely a cameo . |
| 9 | Here was a star who could ask in all earnestness , ‘ What was the colour of the bearded villain 's folder that contained the nuclear secrets which Alan threw down the well before running towards the car park with his sister ? ’ secure in the knowledge that he would receive a suitably excited reply from Manchester Grammar 's finest . |
| 10 | So the problem before us is this : that whereas the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity is both logically and epistemologically indispensable , this distinction can not be defined in terms of any set of criteria under which individuals are re-identified and distinguished from species . |
| 11 | So the night before the show , the carpenters at London Weekend were working all hours , making a collapsible piano and orchestra . |
| 12 | So the resolution before us now is that the Synod endorses english grammar writing ! |
| 13 | The hallmark of Wyllie 's All Blacks is the ability to drive the ball forward repeatedly at close quarters , sucking in the defence before opening up and ruthlessly exploit any gaps . |
| 14 | On Sunday , only the day before yesterday — it hardly seemed possible ! |
| 15 | Ironically enough , only the day before the St Pierre tragedy , a series of nuees were erupted from the volcano Soufriere on St Vincent , 144 kilometres south of Martinique . |
| 16 | Was it really only the day before yesterday when everything had been so pleasant and normal ? |
| 17 | It is almost as if they had never been wild elephants — but only the day before yesterday , they were . |
| 18 | Despite excellent character-witnesses , among them Elizabeth , who delivered an impassioned plea on her maid 's behalf , Justine stood condemned by one piece of circumstantial evidence : a locket containing a picture of her late mistress had been found in her belongings — a locket which the child William had been wearing only the day before the murder . |
| 19 | Erm , now as as this so called generous funding in fact , the police authority are facing a straight deficit of three hundred and twenty-eight thousand , they are facing a further deficit of four hundred and twenty-five thousand because they have only been given one and a half percent for pay , where all the information we have been given from the Home Office , you can shake your head as much as you like Chairman , it is in fact true , and in fact , in fact as reported in the Guardian , on , only the day before yesterday , yet again the police bill is to be , almost certainly four percent , not one and a half . |
| 20 | He was suddenly a doctor before all else , remembering other women he had seen , and tried to examine , victims of a brutal assault , who had been unable to bear a man near them , let alone a man attempting to make love to them , and a score of odd things about her behaviour , hardly noticed at the time , fell into place . |
| 21 | The J/44 is very much a racer before a cruiser : to this end the whole of the interior has been kept light , simple and open . |
| 22 | Like Sukova , Graf found herself down a set before snapping to attention . |
| 23 | Oh well then that 's perhaps a bit before one then , not after , it was about ten to one then perhaps . |
| 24 | How good that wine tasted , if only because I secretly thought , what a rare old vintage I must be quaffing , laid down no doubt before the Battle of Trafalgar ! |
| 25 | You take Chloroquin every week and Proguanin every day , and you do so a week before leaving England and six weeks after returning . |
| 26 | As the Cuban revolution was dedicated to reducing inequalities of all kinds , it was only a year before the Federation of Cuban Women ( FMC ) was set up to tackle the problems facing women . |
| 27 | The daring magnitude of this conception has since been obscured by its almost routine enactment in a series of African countries in the 1960s , but it should never be forgotten that India was the test case , and that at the time success in the execution of such a plan seemed far from assured : only a year before Mountbatten 's appointment the then viceroy , Lord Wavell , had been pressing on the Cabinet his ‘ Breakdown Plan ’ , which consisted simply of the phased evacuation of the British from India without any serious attempt to ensure that a viable , much less friendly , government was installed in their place . |
| 28 | From St. Peter 's he went to Selby in 1836 , but stayed there only a year before returning as incumbent of Chadkirk Chapel in Romiley , where he served until his death in 1862 . |
| 29 | Such a move offered the possibility of a major confrontation between executive and legislature over the contentious issue of abortion only a year before the 1992 presidential elections . |
| 30 | It occurred to me that , only a generation before mine , automobiles had been fuelled by gasoline . |