Example sentences of "to [art] [noun sg] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the Pharisees , who were blind to the evidence before their eyes , and were postponing their hopes to the future , our Lord responded , ‘ No one will say , ‘ Look , here it is ! ’ or , ‘ There it is ! ’ because the Kingdom of God is within you ’ ( Luke 17:21 ) . |
| 2 | It could however intervene if any of the following defects were present : if the agency relied on factors which Congress had not intended it to consider ; failed to consider an important aspect of the problem ; offered an explanation which ran counter to the evidence before the agency ; was so implausible that it could not be sustained ; or failed to provide a record which substantiated their findings . |
| 3 | Unfortunately I regard it as clear that although the consequences to them of operating a commercial port were reasonably plain from the beginning , insufficient thought was given to the question of access to the port before planning permission was granted . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're just off , nipping out the back way to get to the church before them . |
| 5 | Secondly the order relates to the audit before and after acquisition . |
| 6 | The word ‘ Page ’ starts the footer text , followed by the page number ; ‘ of ’ is added to the text before the path name and the document name . |
| 7 | It is hoped that those areas who are large in numbers will raise between three and four hundred pounds each and send this to the Treasurer before Christmas ; those areas who have fewer teachers and not so many classes are asked to raise £100 each . |
| 8 | In one hand he carried a canvas satchel , some maps and a flashlight , which he added to the pile before eyeing her find . |
| 9 | Parliament should give fresh thought to enacting a provision placing an obligation upon a council tenant to give notice to the council before being permitted to commence proceedings . |
| 10 | It refers not to truncating the inquiry but to the timescale before appointing an inspector and publishing the report . |
| 11 | I must also emphasise that the answer I give to the question before me will be of general application . |
| 12 | The words of the statute , as they stand , do not give an answer to the question before the judge ; and the question is therefore legislative rather than interpretative . |
| 13 | I repeat that the question on the Order Paper tonight is irrelevant to the question before the House and the country . |
| 14 | It suppresses the blood-sugar level — not just back to the level before the meal , but even lower than the pre-meal level . |
| 15 | This is in marked contrast to the position before last September when the priority was to kill off inflation so as to preserve Britain 's competitive position within the ERM in the expectation that growth would recover as a consequence . |
| 16 | This is in marked contrast to the position before last September when the priority was to kill off inflation so as to preserve Britain 's competitive position within the ERM in the expectation that growth would recover as a consequence . |
| 17 | If you were close to the patient before his stroke , and were used to showing him affection by touching and kissing him , and if you still feel the same warmth for him despite his illness , you can help his morale greatly by continuing to behave as before , even if he seems not to respond . |
| 18 | He slowed the car , turning it off the main road down a narrow lane that led to the river before bringing it to a halt and cutting the engine . |
| 19 | Customs failed to speak to the wife before making the direction . |
| 20 | Fire crews attending the incident were unable to get to the scene before the cloud developed , due to the five mile contraflow . |
| 21 | At the Annual General Meeting of the Lord Lieutenants ' Association — surely Britain 's most exclusive trade union — there is much discussion of such knotty questions as whether the pushy chairman of the local district council has , as he insists he has , the right to be presented to the Queen before the laid-back leader of the county council . |
| 22 | You have to do the detail sequence er so for the tank farm this is , here I 've got to do the formwork before the reinforcement before the concrete or the other way round , I 've got to the reinforcement before the formwork before the concrete . |
| 23 | And this was his chance to find out whether Emily had been to the shed before coming home . |
| 24 | All patients were encouraged to become familiar with their own mole pattern and to return to the clinic before the next regular appointment if they observed any change . |
| 25 | Add a few mushrooms to the meat before baking under a pastry crust . |
| 26 | I got to the phone before whoever was calling rang off . |
| 27 | ‘ Surely you went to the bathroom before retiring ? ’ |
| 28 | The baby 's attention is drawn to the potty before being placed on it : the aim was to teach the babies to reach out for the potty to indicate they wanted to use it . |
| 29 | The showdown followed three earlier occasions when Government whips took the issue to the brink before backing down in the face of certain defeat by the combined ranks of the Opposition and Conservative rebels . |
| 30 | It is not know whether the Canadian forecast was available to the crew before departure from Keflavik although it had been issued prior to that time . |