Example sentences of "[coord] before a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comfortably seated in a television studio or before a television set , we tend to forget that experience and offer pious hopes that public transport will improve to such an extent that in some miraculous way new roads will be unnecessary . |
| 2 | after or before a storm : |
| 3 | But senior dental officer Sue Fuller said : ‘ There could not be a worse time than bedtime or before a day time nap to give sugar-loaded drinks like these . |
| 4 | Concerts last approximately one hour and can be enjoyed after work or before a main evening festival event . |
| 5 | A court of the United States may order the issuance of a subpoena requiring the appearance as a witness before it , or before a person or body designated by it , of a national or resident of the United States who is in a foreign country , or requiring the production of a specified document or other thing by him , if the court finds that particular testimony or the production of the document or other thing by him is necessary in the interests of justice , and , in other than a criminal action or proceeding , if the court finds , in addition , that it is not possible to obtain his testimony in admissible form without his personal appearance or to obtain the production of the document or other thing in any other manner . |
| 6 | Traditional grammars give two main explanations of the use of the definite article ( the ) rather than the indefinite article ( a , an ) : the former is used before nouns referring to something unique , or before a noun which has become definite as a result of being mentioned a second time . |
| 7 | Apart from a few still lifes , interiors , and landscapes , the pictures of Gwen John 's artistic maturity are all female portraits , usually of a model known only as ‘ the convalescent ’ , the monumental figure isolated or before a simple background . |
| 8 | –here property has been settled on terms which provide for one or more beneficiaries to become entitled to an interest in possession in it on or before a specified age which does not exceed twenty-five but meantime no such interest in possession subsists and the income so far as not applied for maintenance education or benefit of any beneficiary is to be accumulated , neither a payment made out of the property nor the arising to a beneficiary of an interest in possession in it is to be treated as a chargeable transfer . |
| 9 | fill out an affidavit and sign it before a justice of the peace ( your nearest CAB , Local Authority or District Court will help you to find one ) or before a notary public or commissioner for oaths . |
| 10 | An option is a contract that gives its holder the right , but not the obligation , to buy or sell a specific quantity of a specific quality of a specific asset at a specific price ( the " exercise price " or " strike price " ) on or before a specific day ( the settlement day ) . |
| 11 | • It 's fine to eat fruit for breakfast , between meals and before a main meal but not during it as it can upset the digestion rate of the other foods you 're eating . |
| 12 | Back she stumbled , Ferdinando with her , and before a smiling mistress they both fell to their knees and thanked her . |
| 13 | The next thing er which again er is er a detail of something which is already approved and it is merely than in our conditions of service during our discussions with the city er personnel department we noted , or they noted as it had arisen that we indicated the route to erm sick pay over a certain period and before a certain period but not the detail of how you got there . |
| 14 | And before a huge bank of photographers , cameramen and reporters , the first British woman to climb Mount Everest declared it was ‘ great to be back ’ . |
| 15 | A sheikh was summoned and with his authority and before a vast concourse of onlookers the tomb was reopened . |
| 16 | He said motorists should check tyres every week and before a long journey . |
| 17 | Also , a good deal of litigious work is disposed of not in open court but before a judge or master in chambers . |