Example sentences of "of [art] [noun sg] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought of the green before the flats and the sudden figure . |
| 2 | On attaining the summit , it 's a bit of a shock to see how far down the ridge drops round the lip of the corrie before climbing back up to Aonach Beag , but it snakes invitingly away to the east , presenting an irresistible walkway into untamed terrain . |
| 3 | Many believe that it lies under the church of San Vincenzo in Prato , even though there is no historical record of the church before the year 806 . |
| 4 | President Carlos Menem , keen on getting his hands on the proceeds of the privatisation before elections in the autumn , indicated last month that he will push the sale well ahead of schedule . |
| 5 | It is well known in Shetland that the best of the fishing skippers of old had the ability to sense the correct course to steer in fog or darkness , by invoking a sort of ‘ sixth sense ’ , and that it was n't long after the invention of the compass before that ability faded and was lost for ever . |
| 6 | Ask friends or ring the secretary to gain some idea of the standard before entering . |
| 7 | The same is unlikely to be true of CD-I and part of the delay in delivering FMFFV may be due to Philips ' concern to know the requirements of the standard before committing themselves . |
| 8 | Mr George Shaw Storm , the Town Clerk and Burgh Chamberlain of Nairn , is to be given the freedom of the burgh before the Town Council go out of existence . |
| 9 | Lord Donaldson , the Master of the Rolls , has suggested that family cases should require leave of the court before an appeal . |
| 10 | It endangers continued public confidence in the political impartiality of the judiciary , which is essential to the continuance of the rule of law , if judges , under the guise of interpretation , provide their own preferred amendments to statutes which experience of their operation has shown to have had consequences that members of the court before whom the matter comes consider to be injurious to the public interest . |
| 11 | A party wishing to obtain an expert opinion on the evidence to be adduced by another party must obtain the leave of the court before disclosing any of the documents filed in the proceedings ( FPCR , r23(1) ; FPR , r4.23(1) ) . |
| 12 | A shareholder who does neither will have to obtain the leave of the court before seeking to challenge an order sanctioning a scheme ( Re Securities Insurance Company [ 1984 ] 2 Ch 410 ) . |
| 13 | Hagans threw down a statement he 'd been holding , and took three paces to the centre of the court before being brought to the floor and marched to the cells , to shouts from the public gallery . |
| 14 | The Department needs to understand and analyse the scale and extent of the problem before effecting action to address it . |
| 15 | It was necessary therefore to originate our national network shows early in the evening if they were to reach other parts of the country before their respective peak listening hours had passed into bedtimes . |
| 16 | The so-called Islamabad agreement also covered the holding of elections in the 13 northern provinces of the country before March 21 , 1991 , in which only Jamaat-e Islami and Hezb-e Islami would participate . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) In determining whether a lease is one to which section 11 applies — ( b ) a lease which is determinable at the option of the lessor before the expiration of seven years from the commencement of the term shall be treated as a lease for a term of less than seven years , and ( c ) a lease ( other than a lease to which paragraph ( b ) applies ) shall not be treated as a lease for a term of less than seven years if it confers on the lessee an option for renewal for a term which , together with the original term , amounts to seven years or more . |
| 18 | The artist may live passionately through every brush-stroke , but the weaver can not — she needs a clear head and a sense of the goal before her if she is to make order and substance out of the strands with which she works . |
| 19 | Such a doctor would have an informed knowledge of the subject before coming into contact with any prejudicial remarks . |
| 20 | If the new work is given to you in a lecture , you can assume that you require two hours of study for each hour of lecture — for reading of the subject before the lecture , and as a first review ( " within the first 24 hours ) . |
| 21 | Let us return to a serious discussion of the subject before us . |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman is going wide of the subject before the House . |
| 23 | They discovered the secrets of the seashore before learning how to polish their finds at the Margrove Heritage Centre . |
| 24 | In China , the European trading houses began to employ local Chinese to act as their agents from the middle of the nineteenth century , and the term began to be attached to those who would serve the interests of the foreigner before the interests of their co-nationals . |
| 25 | The panel members would discuss in an informal and concerned manner all the relevant background information on the life of the child before them . |
| 26 | So parents need to take into account the attentional state of the child before making a demand and by being aware of the need to gain attention they can avoid a clash of wills ( Stayton et al . |
| 27 | He gave evidence in support of the claims of the tenantry before the Bessborough commission ( 1880 ) but he had already come to prominence when he performed brilliantly as an expert witness on canon law in the celebrated O'Keefe law case in 1875 . |
| 28 | We slashed across the shank of the island , then we were over the anchorage and I had a glimpse of a sailing boat 's shadow black on the bed of the lagoon before our own winged shadow whipped across a gaggle of powerboats . |
| 29 | The arrest of Ali Aref Bourhan , Chief Minister of the territory before independence from France in 1977 , was announced the following day . |
| 30 | The report mentioned the case of Ali Aref Bourhan , Chief Minister of the territory before independence from France in 1977 , who on Oct. 29 had begun a hunger-strike in protest against his detention ( since January — see p. 37946 ) . |