Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] before they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can get out of the country before they come for you . |
| 2 | Overnight , Corman wrote the start of a screenplay for a piece of nonsense entitled The Terror and hurriedly the cast went to work the next morning to make use of the sets before they were torn down . |
| 3 | Otherwise you may take flowers or foliage out of the press before they are ready , thereby ruining them . |
| 4 | THE depressed state of our own economy recently presented holidaymakers bound for Asia and Africa with an unexpected opportunity to practise shopping techniques common in some parts of the globe before they set off . |
| 5 | Unless they demonstrated their loyalty , Jordan would be keen to be rid of most of the refugees before they became a source of sedition . |
| 6 | The requirement that there be a real possibility of a breach of the peace before they act is rarely subject to close judicial scrutiny . |
| 7 | As to the argument that , in order for the duty to take action to arise , the breach of the peace must be ‘ imminent , ’ the Court cited the opinion of Lord Parker C.J. to the effect that the police must anticipate ‘ a real , not a remote , possibility ’ of a breach of the peace before they are justified in taking preventive action . |
| 8 | It then comes to the practical point , Citing German experience to show that ‘ there was a tendency for employee and shareholder representatives to vote and act in distinct groups ’ , they add that the presence of co-opted directors on the board would mean that either group would at the very least need to gain the support of the majority of the directors before they could carry or veto a proposal . |
| 9 | The visible sufferings of the Croats before they had travelled five miles were terrible ; their invisible sufferings , with the prospect of the long march before them , many barefoot and without hope of food before they reached Maribor at the earliest , must have been indescribable . " |
| 10 | The draughts-person is recording the precise details and position of the bones before they are excavated . |
| 11 | Connery was already a vocal supporter of the SNP before they had their first parliamentary victories in the Sixties , and when SNP fortunes were low in 1969 , you could still hear his recorded voice from the campaign trucks in the slums of the Gorbals , saying Scotland is a nation and should stand on her own two feet . |
| 12 | The French won but it was a Pyrrhic victory and their victorious momentum was lost ; they contented themselves with sailing up the Ouse , burning settlements on the way and anchoring within sight of the town before they withdrew . |
| 13 | The Civic Society is to be congratulated for doing a service to Abergavenny by persuading a number of established residents to reminisce in order to capture memories of the town before they are lost for ever . |
| 14 | And Roger laid about him with his whip , and left the print of it on two of the rogues before they downed him and used the thong to bind him . |
| 15 | Individuals were seen jumping from the windows of the buildings straggling the French and Soviet sectors of the city before they could be bricked up . |
| 16 | Well if the Witnesses have their way then be the end of the world before they all |
| 17 | The police arrested all of the group before they reached home and they , the army authorities and NIO knew that the paramilitary organisations were not involved in any way . |
| 18 | He quietly took them to the back of the house before they left . |
| 19 | They 'd been wiped off the face of the earth before they could taste her fury . |
| 20 | Plaintiffs should not assume that they are entitled to be " whitewashed " by a defendant who has paid them merely nominal damages , and it would be more satisfactory if judges made some enquiries of the parties before they approve statements which are made as matters of public record . |
| 21 | Shaw , Black and Lulu all cheekily carved their own slices of the cake before they reached the matronly age of eighteen . |
| 22 | He was a plant physiologist who had great success in promoting the study of botany as a science , but he was also concerned with conservation and wanted to study the grasslands of the prairie before they were completely destroyed by the plough . |
| 23 | She would do well to get out of the area before they turned up . |
| 24 | ‘ There is still a long way to go , though , and nobody at this club forgets that , two seasons ago , Aberdeen made up a ten-point deficit and took Rangers to the last day of the season before they ( Rangers ) won the title . ’ |
| 25 | They are intended for those who like to probe into the whys and wherefores of things or who like to assess fully the credentials of a subject before they give it serious consideration . |
| 26 | They had to get rid of a leader before they could bring themselves to admit that the poll tax was a mistake and I ca n't see John Major going before he loses the next election . |
| 27 | Then his men put a torch to the thatch roof of every cabin before they rode away . |
| 28 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |