Example sentences of "as a [noun] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the winter of 1976 , Rod Johnstone , who started out as a schoolteacher before taking up naval architecture , designed and built the first J/24 in his garage . |
| 2 | These drugs are recommended for the short term treatment ( one to two weeks ) of acute constipation and as a purgative before diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy . |
| 3 | For this reason it is appropriate to take a base-line review of the nature of educational change as a whole before proceeding further . |
| 4 | He may have had it planned as a mausoleum before his death or friends may have erected it to his memory . |
| 5 | Some will see the organisation as offering a career ; others as a stop-gap before moving on ; still others as a means to earn as much money as possible in order to pursue life outside the organisation . |
| 6 | Christine had trained as a hairdresser before stopping work to have her two children . |
| 7 | A refinement of this is ‘ record revue ’ , which automatically replays the last few seconds of the previous shot as a check before returning the camcorder to record-mode . |
| 8 | This is a real time saver , because it automatically plays back the last few seconds of the previous shot as a check before returning you to record mode ready to take the next shot . |
| 9 | He served briefly as a curate before teaching at St Patrick 's seminary at Maynooth . |
| 10 | Bearing in mind that the new Speaker served as a deputy before being elected to her new post we could be looking at the next Speaker of the House of Commons . |
| 11 | Bearing in mind that the new Speaker served as a deputy before being elected to her new post we could be looking at the next Speaker of the House of Commons . |
| 12 | Kevin Sheedy is the only other member of the Newcastle team with experience of third-class English League football ; he played for Hereford as a 17-year-old before joining Liverpool . |
| 13 | When he spoke , it was from the first Tory bench below the gangway , the place he used as a backbencher before his ministerial days , in his youth as the Chingford Skinhead . |
| 14 | He , after all , was a member of an unbeaten Edinburgh Academy XV as a 15-year-old before devoting himself to athletics en route to becoming an international sprinter . |
| 15 | For interferon has been dangled as a bait before investors with more money than scientific sense . |
| 16 | Of the executive branch officials Leon Panetta , 54 , who entered politics as a Republican before switching to the Democrats , had built a reputation as one of the most ferocious critics of the spiralling budget deficit during the 1980s . |
| 17 | After serving in the US Army in Vietnam in 1969-71 , Gore worked as a journalist before being elected to the House of Representatives in 1976 and to the Senate in 1984 and 1990 . |
| 18 | We consult as a team before deciding to go somewhere , but I tend to take the lead . |
| 19 | Clara and Rebecca had worked as a team before this but today they were on different jobs . |
| 20 | Known as FJ Gutmann in the 1930s , he anglicised his name to Goodman for the war years , serving in the ranks as a soldier before becoming attached to the Royal Air Force 's Photographic Interpretation Unit at Medmenham by the war 's end . |
| 21 | The son of Tony and Monica Dickinson , who respectively preceded and succeeded him in charge at Poplar House , Harewood ( not far from Leeds in Yorkshire ) , Michael Dickinson had ridden 378 winners in eleven seasons as a jockey before taking out a trainer 's licence for the 1980–1 season . |
| 22 | Goodridge was simultaneously an active member of the BDDA , which he served on the executive , as Treasurer of the pension fund and as a Vice-chairman before being awarded a medal of honour in 1977 . |
| 23 | Their major worry is that the Pushkin and the Hermitage may simply choose to withdraw the controversial works as a precaution before 12 May , thus wrecking the Pompidou exhibition . |
| 24 | If he is not the greatest gloveman the game has known , he is a very successful wicket-keeper-batsman ; in his first two Tests in Australia in 1981–2 he appeared solely as a batsman before taking over from David Murray , and by the end of the 1989–90 series he had played in 68 Tests , made 223 dismissals ( a miserly five stumpings tells a sad tale ) and scored almost 3,000 runs at an average of 35 with five centuries . |
| 25 | In Cuba , although Castro did not receive the support of the colonos as a class before 1959 , half his fighting force was made up of peasants from the Sierra . |
| 26 | Born at Hebden Bridge on Oct 13 , 1917 , Fiddling played league cricket fro Todmorden as a teenager before graduating to the Yorkshire Colts side . |
| 27 | His new show is at Plymouth , where he studied as a schoolboy before going on to Somerset College of Art . |
| 28 | He worked in a number of Michelin-star kitchens in Amsterdam and also trained as a teacher before leaving his native land — knowledge he now puts to good use in local schools . |
| 29 | For many years she had worked as a librarian before switching to journalism , training ‘ on-the-job ’ under an American industrial and securities correspondent and as personal assistant to Dan Rather , now CBS 's news anchorman , then becoming a freelance writer . |
| 30 | The southern islands became known mostly during the 17th to 19th centuries ; Antarctica itself remained unvisited until the late 18th century , and unrecognized as a continent before the start of the 20th century . |