Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] before it was [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr de Klerk telephoned Mrs Thatcher at the Conservative conference in Blackpool to tell her of the decision before it was announced in South Africa . |
| 2 | It marked the end of the long process of transformations — starting with the seething leaves of the plant , then the reeking green stage of the first steepings , and the sulphurous yellow stage of the liquor before it was exposed to the air , then binding with the air , it gradually turned to blue . |
| 3 | His hair was white , as my daughters reported when they went to view the body before it was given to the Odonata . |
| 4 | There must , therefore , have been another meaning of the parable before it was developed into an allegory . |
| 5 | The villagers had laid Father Reynard out on the table and an old woman , tears streaming down her face , was gently bathing the corpse before it was sheeted for burial . |
| 6 | The creature was sketched and the drawing witnessed by all the crew before it was decapitated . |
| 7 | is that that the consultation is a problem the legislation which takes away the requirement for several developments to promote valuable time and be advertised prior to the application so the first most people knew about this application was after this this opportunity prior to that to discuss it with the development before it was submitted . |
| 8 | The day before it was revealed that Cammell Laird is to close with the loss of 900 jobs , virtually banging the final nail into Merseyside 's unemployment coffin . |
| 9 | The cause of recovering Greenham Common for the people has been taken up by the author of Watership Down , Mr Richard Adams , who knew the area before it was requisitioned during the second world war . |
| 10 | It was five races into the championship before it was discovered Jonny had been driving with a broken chassis , which made it impossible to get his car to handle properly . |
| 11 | Whether the ball was over the line before it was crossed by the Newcastle inside-right , Richardson , remained a matter for argument for years after . |
| 12 | Later that same month he forwarded a copy of a declaration in favour of arbitration signed by Nonconformist ministers so that the Foreign Secretary could approve the wording before it was sent . |
| 13 | His passenger Anthony Ballard , 17 , of Cradley , West Midlands , scrambled free of the wreckage before it was hit by the train , and escaped with whiplash injuries and shock , said a British transport police spokesman . |
| 14 | An inspector would go in to inspect the the tank before it was tested and he would back come out and say , you know , there 's so many rivets missing in there . |
| 15 | A pro-active public relations executive would have gone over , in detail , the problem of the new soap powder with the client before it was launched and got approval of an action plan just in case of any problems . |
| 16 | Hot water was used to soften the material before it was cut , so it took the undulations at full volume , and there was a very large soundbox for replay , so the system was louder than its competitors ( 46 — see also page 4 ) . |
| 17 | Galecron ( the brand name for the formulation , chlordimeform ) was widely used as a pesticide before it was taken off the market briefly in 1976 after it was found to increase tumours in mice . |
| 18 | Then he read an article somewhere which said that the point of tasting a wine before it was poured was not to see if you liked it , but to make sure that it was n't corked . |
| 19 | ‘ The ferocity of the fire suggested it had been going quite a while before it was discovered . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , because GCSE was planned for a decade before it was implemented , the debate about equivalence started early . |
| 21 | Perhaps one of the reasons SunPics resisted the idea , other than the fact that it jeopardises the planet 's whole raison d'etre , is that the deal was reportedly sprung on them a week before it was signed . |
| 22 | That forecast , from party sources and from the intelligence bureau , which has become a wing of the Prime Minister 's office , was crucial in the timing of the election , at least a month before it was expected . |
| 23 | We had to change and the poll tax was introduced in Scotland a year before it was introduced in England and Wales . |
| 24 | Together — with Pierre Auger and Jules Gueron he told General de Gaulle of the weapon that was being developed a year before it was used in 1945 — the General referred to this ‘ apocalyptic undertaking ’ in his memoirs . |