Example sentences of "[noun] just before the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a marvellous moment of stasis just before the final presto of this first movement ( a riveting tenuto E natural in the violins ) , while the finale is particularly notable for the rapture of its luminous string transformation ( dolcissimo ) in the central maestoso ) . |
| 2 | McCourt said Royal Gait was cruising turning into the home straight , but began to lose his action just before the final flight . |
| 3 | Tokyo : Index-linked buying just before the close drove prices up and enabled the Nikkei average to end with a gain of 140.19 points at 35,522.99 . |
| 4 | However , he got better results in his own TV film , The Ewok Adventure ( aka Caravan of Courage , 1984 ) , which he produced for Lucas , by shooting some action sequences with most of the picture area on the negative blocked off , then — working from a test strip just before the main action — matching the matte painting to the unexposed area and finally compositing action and painting together . |
| 5 | When the referee talks to the two boxers just before the first round , each fighter stares closely and directly into the opponent 's eyes . |
| 6 | Delivered in 1925 No 4 completed her trials just before the General Strike of 1926 and was laid up until 1927 . |
| 7 | He walked his horse outside the tavern but left Godstowe just before the young woman and man were seen . |
| 8 | At this point the runners in the junior race , which takes place just before the main race , turn round . |
| 9 | In fact it was rather like the dark days just before the last election when prime-time television was regularly disturbed by party political broadcasts . |
| 10 | We played an exhibition match with Jack Nicklaus just before the 1967 Open and , as we say in Scotland , ‘ golfed the heed off him ’ . |
| 11 | I remember there was a period when no-one was speaking to anyone and I recall going to the island of Mustique and being there a few weeks just before the final split . |
| 12 | Sihanouk had fled to Beijing just before the 1979 Vietnamese invasion , having been in Phnom Penh since 1975 but without real power as an effective prisoner in the hands of the Khmers Rouges . |
| 13 | There was a race just before the National , might have been the one before , or the one before . |
| 14 | Edwin J. Orchard 's Chemists shop in Blue Boar Row was sold to C. N. Higgins just before the Great War . |
| 15 | Set in Austria just before the First World War the play revolves around Josephea , proprietress of the inn ; Leopold , the head waiter ; several well-to-do local businessmen and the Emperor of Austria who comes to stay at the Inn at the start of the shooting season . |
| 16 | The latest goal to Brann was given on a dubious penalty in overtime and there should probably have been given a free-kick for handling — for — Lyn just before the last Brann goal — the ref admitted this after seeing the whole situation on video-tape . |
| 17 | Furious Saints fans ran on to the pitch in anger just before the final whistle as their team headed for a 2–1 defeat by QPR . |
| 18 | Nigel Lawson enrolled in the Clark Gable ‘ Frankly , I do n't give a damn ’ school when he fell foul of his own party over a rise in interest rates just before the Tory conference . |
| 19 | The Beckwith brothers and Tony Clegg exited from property shares with perfect timing just before the current disastrous recession . |
| 20 | She was brought up in France just before the Second World War , but as an adolescent she was sent to spend a year with relatives in Germany where she was forced to remain when fighting broke out . |
| 21 | This became the norm just before the Middle Ages . |
| 22 | Nothing of the score 's sense of awe and mystery ( it depicts the appearance of Halley 's Comet just before the Norman Conquest of 1066 , as shown in the Bayeux Tapestry ) survived this rather brutal account . |
| 23 | Sadly , my father had to find work in the Gulf just before the last war and died out there when I was three years old . |
| 24 | Would you say that if this pattern were to be repeated all through the night we would run out of dry-roasted nuts just before the important watershed of midnight , whereas we would still have a surplus of the ordinary variety ? |
| 25 | Perhaps it is only in retrospect that the artists ' balls , the fancy-dress dances , the 14th of July celebration seemed more brilliant than usual that summer just before the First World War . |
| 26 | Schrader refers to the short , written out cadenza-like flourish just before the final cadences of the Prelude in F minor BWV534 as a precedent , but this does not seem justification enough , particularly as the cadenza he provides in this case is much more than merely a brief manual flourish . |
| 27 | In these instances it is not uncommon to find a government 's revenue ( as in Lesotho ) almost totally committed to paying its teacher force — hence nothing left over to equip the schools ; in which case it is worth asking whether the whole costly mechanism of providing school education has not come to an unprofitable full-stop just before the only point where it can be productive — enabling children to learn . |
| 28 | International winger Bryan Roy set up striker Ron Willems 's headed equaliser just before the full-time whistle in the 2–2 draw with MVV Maastricht . |
| 29 | The atmosphere just before the First World War was free , live and very young . |
| 30 | So just one new route to report this month , climbed by Rab Anderson just before the late November thaw . |