Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [noun] before " in BNC.

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1 He worked at the gasworks in Windsor and Eton and then in the chemical industry before going into private practice in the early 1870s .
2 It 's what we were saying in the Labour Party before the nineteen ninety two election .
3 There was just time for England and Australia to fit in the final Test before getting on with the serious business — serious to those for whom dollar signs are important — of dashing round the country playing game after game after game of the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup .
4 The turning point for England was provided by Stewart , in the final over before tea , when the accomplished DeSilva aimed a leg glance at Jarvis .
5 The turning point for England was provided by Stewart , in the final over before tea , when the accomplished DeSilva aimed a leg glance at Jarvis .
6 In the final days before the ground assault there were reports of increasing allied artillery fire and skirmishing inside Iraqi-held territory as the allies sought to destroy those enemy fortifications — including sand ramparts known as berms , oil-filled ditches and mine fields — which had survived the bombing campaign .
7 The latest opinion polls , published last weekend ( no polls are allowed to be published in the final week before an election ) , predict that the conservative alliance of the neo-Gaullist RPR party and the centre-right UDF party will win over 70 per cent of the 577 seats in the National Assembly .
8 No opinion polls are allowed to be published in the final week before an election in France .
9 The monk Ippen ( 1239 to 1289 ) travelled all over Japan in the sixteen years before his death , and his journeys , his life and ideas ( he was also the founder of an Amida-Buddhist school ) were documented by one of his brothers in the twelve illustrated scrolls completed in 1299 .
10 In the five stages before the crucial individual time trial on Friday 24 July , the theatre of the Tour will present many dramatic scenes and ask us to follow a number of sub-plots .
11 They had to run constantly to complete the first tapping of their three hundred and fifty trees in the five hours before ten o'clock .
12 Question D — focuses on explaining the reasons for the industrial and political unrest " in Britain in the five years before the outbreak of the First World War .
13 One may eliminate famine as a possible underlying cause of discontent , as the harvests in the five years before 1381 were at least average and sometimes good ( 78 , p.161 ) .
14 Once , whilst in Venice , the Inquisition caught me , tried and condemned me to burn in the great piazza before St Mark 's .
15 The Green Paper from the Department of Education and Science and the Welsh Office demonstrates its relationship to the Ruskin speech and to the issues raised in the Great Debate before moving swiftly to a statement on the partnership between schools , local education authorities and ministers .
16 The survey concludes the Tories spent an estimated £1.5m on posters in the four weeks before the election , rather than the unattributed figures of between £5m and £20m quoted in national newspapers .
17 Patients with symptoms of active colitis in the four weeks before attendance and those with a history of diabetes , hypertension , renal disease , or chronic analgesic ingestion were excluded .
18 In the city , ‘ In the uncertain hour before the morning ’ , Eliot meets his ‘ familiar compound ghost ’ .
19 In the uncertain hour before the morning
20 ‘ It appears that consumers are already returning to the high street and are also beginning to consider major financial decisions which were postponed in the uncertain period before the election , ’ said Dr Brian Bailey , Infolink chairman .
21 ‘ It appears that consumers are already returning to the high street and are beginning to consider major financial decisions , which were postponed in the uncertain period before the election , ’ he said .
22 In the Soviet Union before the advent of Gorbachev succession was a struggle within the ruling elite , for example there were prolonged struggles after the death of Lenin in 1924 and of Stalin in 1953 , the main difference between the two episodes being that the losers in the 1950s escaped with their lives whereas those in the 1920s did not .
23 Twice in the six weeks before the referendum President Mikhail Gorbachev went on nationwide television and radio to appeal for a " yes " vote .
24 THE top rate of tax hit 98 p.c. and inflation exceeded 20 p.c. during the last Labour government , so it is worth considering tax-exempt and inflation-proofed investments in the six days before a possible change of government .
25 The FA , under their contract with Wembley , have the right to veto matches taking place at Wembley in the six days before the FA Cup final .
26 Information obtained included socio-demographic characteristics , details of the episode , past history , life events in the six months before onset and pre-morbid personality .
27 Moreover , from an additional 90 homosexual men who seroconverted between the start of the homosexual cohort in October 1984 and the start of the present study in April 1989 , none suffered from pneumonia in the six months before seroconversion .
28 Patients were allocated randomly to receive chemotherapy or only supportive care in a ratio of 2:1 according to performance status , metastatic disease of the liver , and weight loss in the six months before entering the study .
29 The assignment was determined by randomisation in blocks of six ( as defined by a computer generated random number list ) according to performance status ( score 0–1 v 2–3 ) , metastatic disease of the liver ( assessed by ultrasonography or computed tomography , or both ) , and weight loss in the six months before entering the study .
30 In the six months before the recent normal colonoscopy , she had a series of investigations including barium enemas , sigmiodoscopy , and colonoscopy with results which were to some degree conflicting .
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