Example sentences of "a [noun sg] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was arrested and after a trial before the Tribunal , all of whom he knew well , he was sentenced to a year in Peterhead Gaol . |
| 2 | Another example of the rule against prior restraint is the Voluntary Euthanasia Society case ( see p11 above ) where the Attorney-General was refused an injunction against a publication whose authors were entitled to have the legality of their actions decided at a trial before a jury . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been in a recession before and come through it and we 'll do it again . ’ |
| 4 | Building and sculptures certainly underwent repairs in antiquity ; but a theory that the present order of the metopes is due to a rearrangement before Pausanias 's time , the six Peloponnesian labours having been originally together on the west , the others on the east , seems to me unnecessary ; indeed certainly wrong , since I find a stylistic distinction between the two ends as they are which cuts across the geographical division . |
| 5 | It is true that in later times particular questions arising in a case before him , suitable for trial by jury , are sometimes directed by the Chancellor to be so tried . |
| 6 | There were , of course , differences between taking a grievance to a supernatural being and instituting a case before a magistrate . |
| 7 | In the September 1992 issue of ACCOUNTANCY ( see p 111 ) , we reported a case before the Court of Appeal in which the Court was asked to make a declaration as to whether MS Fashions Ltd and MS Fashions ( Wholesale ) Ltd could be required to pay to Touche Ross , the liquidator of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International , the whole of a combined overdraft of £600,000 , or whether a deposit with BCCI by Mr Sarwar of £300,000 , which had been used as a security for the overdrafts , could be set off against the sum of £600,000 under Rule 4.90 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 . |
| 8 | The Revenue is centralising its cases on this point at claims branch and of course the value to the Revenue of fighting these cases is far greater than the value to individual taxpayers ; on the other hand , the financial risk for the individual taxpayer of being the first to take such a case before the Special Commissioners or higher , would be extremely high . |
| 9 | There was also the practice , now seemingly defunct , of relisting a case before a full court at the behest of the dissentient member of a tripartite panel . |
| 10 | In 1297 an Irish attorney acting for the abbot of Mellifont in a case before King 's Bench suggested to the abbot that he would be guaranteed success in his litigation if he paid Rothbury a bribe of twenty marks through the attorney . |
| 11 | ‘ You are all up a bit before your time . |
| 12 | He wanted to do a bit before New York and it worked because before the tour started , there was very little interest in New York , but it sold out in Cleveland which we knew it would , and both shows were great , by which time word got back to New York instantly , as it does , and by the time the show at Carnegie Hall happened , it was sold out . |
| 13 | ‘ No , only a bit before the competitions . |
| 14 | It'd 've been a bit before eleven o'clock . |
| 15 | Probably if ‘ Damnation Derek ’ had bothered to talk to people and get to know them a bit before preaching at them , he would have discovered that they would want to ask him some questions about what he believed . |
| 16 | We 'd want to go back a bit before that . |
| 17 | And erm one of the girls that was on there became a very very famous soprano in the country , erm Connie Shackelock you 've probably not heard of her , she 's sort of a bit before your time but er she always used to sing Land of Hope and Glory on the last night of the Proms a few years ago . |
| 18 | ‘ Amateur dramatics was a bit before my time , sir . ’ |
| 19 | Cos I got a bit before when |
| 20 | Oh well then that 's perhaps a bit before one then , not after , it was about ten to one then perhaps . |
| 21 | Yes it was a bit before my time |
| 22 | Erm , there 's been one or two others , erm a guy called Thomas who studied er gypsies also , and learnt their language , languages , really erm a bit before Judith Oakley . |
| 23 | Um Thomas Carlisle um wen was very much impressed by the work of people like Wordsworth and Coleridge because they were just a bit before him and he actually went and met Coleridge . |
| 24 | On July 23 a UN fact-finding mission was to begin a visit to the region , to assess the logistical difficulties of holding such a referendum before March 1991 , as well as to assess the scale and cost of the necessary supervision . |
| 25 | This decree vested all powers in the SLORC , and required that a new constitution be drawn up ( by the SLORC ) and submitted to a referendum before the transfer to a civilian government — a process likely to take at least two years . |
| 26 | A new constitution , embracing the details of the agreement , was expected to be submitted for popular approval in a referendum before the end of the year . |
| 27 | During November former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had repeatedly called for a referendum before the UK agreed to join moves to introduce a single currency , and the debate further highlighted the divisions within the Conservative Party in its approach to Europe , although Thatcher after the summit reportedly professed herself to be impressed by Major 's performance there . |
| 28 | He has promised to make a decision before the end of this week , but most party leaders predict he will be persuaded by the Clinton sweep to stay on the sidelines . |
| 29 | ‘ Certainly we will reach a decision before the next election is called , ’ a government official said . |
| 30 | McDunn does n't want to charge me with any of the other murders but they 're going to have to make a decision before too long because my initial time under the PTA is nearly up and the Home Secretary is n't going to grant an extension ; I 'll have to appear in court soon . |