Example sentences of "in a [noun] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also worth checking your transit twice , since sometimes the start line drifts in a current before the anchor grips . |
| 2 | Norman , however , recollects that at first Minton did not take it very seriously ; but one evening , when the two men had arranged to meet in a pub before going to the opera , Norman arrived late , having spent the afternoon with Henrietta , and realised on seeing Minton that he had begun to feel left out . |
| 3 | Nor can it be compared with the ballerina 's dance in Rhapsodie where she wafts to and fro as if in a dream before breaking into her solo . |
| 4 | It is true that in later times particular questions arising in a case before him , suitable for trial by jury , are sometimes directed by the Chancellor to be so tried . |
| 5 | In 1297 an Irish attorney acting for the abbot of Mellifont in a case before King 's Bench suggested to the abbot that he would be guaranteed success in his litigation if he paid Rothbury a bribe of twenty marks through the attorney . |
| 6 | The judge has asked for a unanimous verdict and the jury will now spend the night in a hotel before returning to court to continue their deliberations . |
| 7 | Loren was sitting in a slip before the dressing-table mirror . |
| 8 | She drew herself up , stilling her racing pulses , as he asked her now with a wave at the drinks table , ‘ Would you care to indulge in a drink before dinner ? ’ |
| 9 | I 've never seen you in a suit before Barry . |
| 10 | S J Paliwoda ( International Marketing ) draws attention to the need to evaluate political risk in a country before taking a decision to set up operations within that country . |
| 11 | England have played them once , in a warm-up before the 1986 World Cup when they won 4-0 in Cairo . |
| 12 | In cities , where the seasons ' impact is dulled , the rituals of fertility seem to lose their meaning , but they continue , processing like scenes in a play before Tiresias , epitome of the sexual process , male and female trapped together , who has ‘ foresuffered all ’ . |
| 13 | But I daresay , if you were speaking to some of the older men in the shipyard er who had worked in a shipyard before my time , that er a lot of riveters , a lot of tradesmen of all all kinds , found it hard to get employment once they were they were sacked you know . |
| 14 | He would walk in a day before a College hop and say , ‘ Good heavens : We must tart the place up a bit . |
| 15 | The 10,000-ton Demetrius foundered on rocks near East Pawle , Devon , in a storm before Christmas . |
| 16 | Tomorrow she would book another ride ; she would fit in a swim before breakfast , possibly before dinner as well ; and the day after that she would walk — thirty miles would be a reasonable target this time . |
| 17 | In a battle before the walls of Agra , Shah Shuja was defeated by the Imperial army commanded by Dara 's twenty-five-year-old son , Sulaiman Shikoh . |
| 18 | The Post Office Engineering Union waged a campaign against the licensing of competitors of BT and against proposals , in a Bill before Parliament , on privatization of BT . |
| 19 | If it can be claimed that the young men who spend a short time in a school before moving on provide the vitality , it is equally true that those who devote their whole lives to a single school give the continuity , tradition , and wisdom which are equally , if not more , important . |
| 20 | M. He got killed in a car-crash before the war . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've been in a recession before and come through it and we 'll do it again . ’ |
| 22 | A new constitution , embracing the details of the agreement , was expected to be submitted for popular approval in a referendum before the end of the year . |
| 23 | After conceding two quick strikes , Clark fouled off four pitches in a row before blasting the next into centre field . |
| 24 | — the Almanack , let alone cricket followers at large , could scarcely have guessed that Surridge would steer the county to four more Championships in a row before handing over to Peter May ( who kept the Championship pennant at The Oval for two further years ) . |
| 25 | Mooney played four games in a row before being left out of the derby game , while Brady was substitute in the FA Cup replay against West Ham , the two games against Chelsea and the semi-final against Norwich City . |
| 26 | This graph compares the proportion of brightly-coloured prey in a population before predation ( horizontal axis ) with the proportion after predation ( vertical axis . |
| 27 | It is necessary both to predict what is likely to be found in a discourse before trying to process it , and to have a clear purpose in processing . |
| 28 | Here , in a test-tube before his very eyes , ignorance and prejudice were breeding like infusoria . |
| 29 | Tomorrow , in a motion before the Commons , a cross-party group of MPs will ask the Government to comment on the evidence revealed by Channel 4 . |
| 30 | On 9 June , in a hearing before the High Court , new safety procedures were agreed by both Raybestos and Cork County Council . |