Example sentences of "[det] be before " in BNC.
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| 1 | These form the start of a speech by the prophets and patriarchs in Hell , who appeal for an Ambassador — this is before Christ 's Advent — to bring them rescue from the deorc déabes sceadu , the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ . |
| 2 | A few years ago , er , the joint planning structures , and this is before the introduction of care in the community , dealt or came to be seen politically , dealing very much with joint finance and although , important though it , that is , it 's what 's sometimes called funny money , it 's money at the side , it did n't deal with mainstream policies , and mainstream budgets . |
| 3 | This was before the 1988 Licensing Act which brought all-day opening . |
| 4 | If one looks at the speeches , reads the pamphlets and studies the discussions of Councils one sees that an aggressive political tone was never far from the surface and this was before their wholesale involvement in the debates over the 1902 Education Act . |
| 5 | This was before the days of the National Health Service . |
| 6 | This was before the building of New Bridge Road and it now seems impossible that the large convoy of vehicles could ever make its way over the narrow bridges leading into the city . |
| 7 | This was before the days of two-channel stereo records , and the label simply meant to imply that there was spaciousness in the sound on the record . |
| 8 | This was before the days of relatively cheap air flights — in fact such things were n't even thought of by the bulk of the population . |
| 9 | Campbell made the point — and this was before the Auckland game — that Ireland needed better coaching and , on the face of it , more awareness of the growing physical demands of top-line rugby . |
| 10 | However , this was before the astronomers , notably Professor Alexander Thom , got in on the act . |
| 11 | ‘ We knew it came from Gotha , but it was legally very difficult to stop a picture that belonged to an East German public collection … as this was before the unification of Germany ’ . |
| 12 | This was before all this publicity , like , but she still should have been sussed out . |
| 13 | Short of building merchant ships for free , British Shipbuilders [ this was before privatization ] can never hope to compete with the merciless competition presented by the South Koreans and the Japanese . |
| 14 | As to what we were going to do in our school holidays , and if I do n't , let's see , the teacher was named , it 's be the fourth class , and er two of us decided we were going to , and this was before the days of hiking as such , we decided we were going to go hiking . |
| 15 | All this was before 1914 , but the Rent Act , 1915 concentrated the minds wonderfully : State intervention in the provision of working-class housing after the war became much more likely . |
| 16 | However , this was before the opening of his masterpiece , the London Coliseum , in 1905 . |
| 17 | This was before the actual move . |
| 18 | This was before my time ; I joined the college in 1965 at the tail end of the bitterness , when similar disagreements forced another Nobel-prize-winning master , Sir Nevill Mott , to resign . |
| 19 | This was before the advent of the IBM PC , so the hardware platforms were the Apple II and the TRS/80 . |
| 20 | This was before the Batty sale … but Im not sure if it was before all the other sales this season . |
| 21 | She notes : ‘ This was before the women 's liberation movement and was very scandalous ’ . |
| 22 | Towards the end of my Baghdad tour I had regular tussles with the group captain in friendly games of tennis , but I was never able to take a set off him , which never surprised me since he was more or less the permanent Inter-Services Tennis Champion in the UK , ( Oddly enough , Jackie Hunter was my station commander early in the war and saved me from the wrath of my Air Officer Commanding — " Maori " Coningham — when I brought my bombs back when everyone else had " found the target " , but this was before the days of the night camera . ) |
| 23 | The purpose of this wing was to test aircraft that came out after a form of garage servicing ; this was before the garage system introduced by Bennett in the earlier days of Pathfinding at RAF Wyton . |
| 24 | Obviously what happened then this was before |
| 25 | This was during , this was before and during the war ? |
| 26 | This was before it happened or when it happened ? you did n't have sort of intimations that something was going to happen ? |
| 27 | The Uthwatt Committee noted that there were only three cases in which betterment had actually been paid under the Planning Acts , and all these were before the 1932 Act introduced a provision for the deferment of payment until the increased value had actually been realised either by sale or lease or by change of use . |
| 28 | It is assumed that the μ and ratios in the precursor source , that is before enrichment , were variable in proportion to their respective Pb isotope ratios . |
| 29 | Salinity on the same density surface in the Iceland Basin is fresher , between 34.89–34.90 , so it could be older than that in the Rockall Trough , that is before 1970 , or it could have originated more recently , when salinity increased between 1981 and 1985 . |
| 30 | There is fashion , style and the economy to take into account and that is before concocting a viable plot . |