Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Oh well then that 's perhaps a bit before one then , not after , it was about ten to one then perhaps . |
| 4 | You take Chloroquin every week and Proguanin every day , and you do so a week before leaving England and six weeks after returning . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It occurred to me that , only a generation before mine , automobiles had been fuelled by gasoline . |
| 10 | ‘ No , only a bit before the competitions . |
| 11 | This , together with the replacement of three jurors during the course of the trial — one of whom was removed only a day before the jury 's deliberations began — was thought likely to form the basis of an appeal against the convictions . |
| 12 | He had obtained the auctioneer 's catalogue only a day before the sale and the purported effect of the clause was to relieve the sellers from telling more than a part of the material facts , thereby obliging the buyer to check the remainder for himself . |
| 13 | When the industry was nationalised , three-quarters of domestic consumers had fires , compared with only a quarter before the War . |
| 14 | The innocence of the track lasted only a mile before splitting into three or four overgrown paths made slippery in the torrential rain . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , such a concentration only a fortnight before the examination — which is too often the accepted state of affairs — is quite useless as a means of understanding and learning the skills of the subject . |
| 16 | ONLY a month before the publication of Lord Justice 's Taylor 's full report on football safety there were disturbing suggestions yesterday that some clubs have failed to implement interim recommendations made in the wake of the Hillsborough disaster , writes David Hopps . |
| 17 | ONLY a month before the publication of Lord Justice 's Taylor 's full report on football safety there were disturbing suggestions yesterday that some clubs have failed to implement interim recommendations made in the wake of the Hillsborough disaster , writes David Hopps . |
| 18 | The officially published diaries of Ceauşescu 's engagements reveal that Yasser Arafat was his most frequent guest : on average they met six times a year and saw each other for the last time only a month before the revolution . |
| 19 | Indeed , only a month before war began , General Haig stated that it would be foolish to think ‘ that aeroplanes will be able to be usefully employed for reconnaissance ’ ; he believed that only cavalry could gather information . |
| 20 | Therefore it was possible to run a demonstration passenger train using the ex-BR Rushton & Hornsby diesel locomotive , No. 85049 and the newly constructed bogie passenger coach , delivered to the railway only a week before following completion by Overland Railways of Chidham , West Sussex . |
| 21 | Denis hesitated for only a moment before surrendering to his instinct to meet kindness with kindness . |
| 22 | Going away for just a day before Christmas to visit a friend or relative , just to let Alan Markby and Laura Danby know that she did have someone else , would bolster her morale . |
| 23 | Um Thomas Carlisle um wen was very much impressed by the work of people like Wordsworth and Coleridge because they were just a bit before him and he actually went and met Coleridge . |
| 24 | Among the items stolen was a locket given to Andrea by her mother Margaret who died of cancer just a fortnight before the wedding . |
| 25 | Terry 's run ended just a month before the end of 1960–61 , Palace 's first promotion season for 40 years , and his splendid and regular performances were a key feature in that success . |
| 26 | The arrangement was formally signed just a week before the show . |
| 27 | ‘ The knee went just a week before Scotland 's game against England and I can not remember feeling more depressed , ’ said Armstrong . |
| 28 | Even Warrant-Officer Gilbert , who had arrived just a week before them , was still here . |
| 29 | Just a week before stepping down on May 27th , his camp put out a proposal for radical tax changes in the city . |
| 30 | Well — Lorne had almost got his Business degree , for just a week before graduating he accepted instead the position of assistant to Bob Cundy , an independent ethnographer who virtually single-handedly cranked out hair-raising adventure films , shot in all parts of the world , at a time when it was still feasible to make a living out of them . |