Example sentences of "before [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before that time , alcohol had been in general use to deaden pain , though some sturdy souls rejected it on principle . |
| 2 | In general this is certainly true , as the experienced eye can tell at a glance whether the style of an ancient Greek coin is that of the archaic or of the later , classical period ; in a similar way one can argue from the change in the type of helmet worn by the goddess Athena on Athenian vases in the period 540–510 BC that Athenian coins depicting the same goddess with the same helmet are unlikely to have been made before that time . |
| 3 | ‘ This place has been in the same family for over a hundred years , and it was going strong before that time . |
| 4 | Mr Bond was deemed to be insolvent at the time the bankruptcy judgment was entered against him and the bankruptcy notice was served — ‘ about three weeks ago ’ — but Mr Bond may have been insolvent before that time . |
| 5 | If the ancient bacteria that lived before that time had been intelligent , they would have recognized it as a very serious pollution . |
| 6 | There is no positive evidence as to how the regnal year was reckoned in periods before that time . |
| 7 | College of Arms ( London ) The college was granted its charter by King Richard III in 1484 , but some of its papers date from before that time , to the very earliest days of heraldry in the thirteenth century . |
| 8 | Co-ordinated efforts towards conservation have occurred almost entirely since 1950 and even individual efforts before that time are few . |
| 9 | An article in the Timber Trades Journal reported Michael Latham , chairman of a major UK timber firm and then president of the European tropical timber importers union , as saying that : ‘ The entry of the WWF into the field enlarged the scale of the problem for the timber trade , since before that time the trade had been dealing with small local conservationist groups ’ . |
| 10 | Before that time , knowledge and wisdom were passed on through the spoken word , as they still are in much of the world . |
| 11 | Before that time , only a minority of ‘ cranks ’ insisted on eating wholemeal bread , extolling the virtues of bran , and complaining of the ill-effects of a Western diet rich in refined carbohydrates . |
| 12 | However , if before that time the supplier issues a tax invoice or receives payment , then to that extent the time of supply ( also known as the ‘ tax point ’ ) is the earlier of when the invoice is issued or payment received ( s 5(1) and ( 10 ) ) . |
| 13 | Louis Sherwood asserts in his chairman 's report that ‘ the directors are confident that satisfactory new arrangements will be put in place well before that time ’ . |
| 14 | The absence of evidence of a distinctive layout of fields before that time has led to the suggestion that Romano-British fields continued to be used in the Saxon period and that open fields may have been something that developed gradually through the Anglo-Saxon period as a whole ( Taylor and Fowler 1978 ) . |
| 15 | In favour of the latter explanation is the sudden appearance of the Cretan round tomb in about 3000 BC : they are not known in Crete before that time . |
| 16 | " We have an apprenticeship of seven years to begin with , but 99 out of 100 of these girls when they go to the trade expect that they will be married before that time passes . |
| 17 | The foundation material in that formative period was undoubtedly and properly print-form ; the book , the pamphlet , the journal ; yet libraries before that time had not necessarily always been uni-media . |
| 18 | It is generally around the age of 2½ years that the child begins to take an active interest in its peers — before that time it may play in their company but seldom plays with them . |
| 19 | Before that time — in late Old English — the West Saxon literary standard was well established , and afterwards — from around 1550 — most printed documents appear in a ( relatively ) standardized form . |
| 20 | Before that time the largest unit of production was what Defoe calls in Yorkshire the ‘ work-house ’ . |
| 21 | You 're not forgetting that I called you before that time myself , and you told me Bonanza had taken the girl away somewhere ? ’ |
| 22 | If , instead of ‘ piecework ’ , the men contracted to get the harvest in by the end of a month , it meant that should they finish before that time they could then go to other jobs on the farm , drawing their usual wage whilst doing so . |
| 23 | The system for investing students as or granting was thoroughly reformed and reorganized in the mid-sixteenth century , as mentioned below , but it existed in some form , difficult to define precisely , from well before that time . |
| 24 | There could be many glorious months in front of us before that time comes . ’ |
| 25 | If those who are called before that time are relatively brief , it may not be necessary to impose the limit . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) Proceedings on the Bill at a sitting of the Standing Committee on the said 5th December may continue until Eight o'clock , whether or not the House is adjourned before that time , and if the House is adjourned before those proceedings have been brought to a conclusion the Standing Committee shall report the Bill to the House on 6th December . |
| 27 | a ) that Motion shall stand over until the conclusion of any proceedings on the Bill which , under this Order , are to be brought to a conclusion at or before that time ; |
| 28 | ( 2 ) If on an allotted day on which any proceedings on the Bill are to be brought to a conclusion at a time appointed by this Order the House is adjourned , or the sitting is suspended , before that time no notice shall be required of a Motion made at the next sitting by a member of the Government for varying or supplementing the provisions of this Order . |
| 29 | Only 15 months later , the participants in that match , which , it must be said , was not full of passion , are now presumably heavily engaged in destroying each other simply because they come from two sides of a divide that dates back to the tragedies , miseries and horrors of the second world war , back to the first world war and into the deep recesses of history before that time . |
| 30 | At any rate , he used the programme again and again to warn of what was happening and in doing so , he created a public awareness of conservation issues that was , I am sure , without parallel before that time . |