Example sentences of "just before [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before a tyro Pat Pocock played his first Test there , over 21 years ago , Tom Graveney cruelly pointed to the Bridgetown sightscreen and said to the tremulous off-spinner : ‘ Oh , look lad , it 's still peppered with those little red dots from that time Clyde Walcott got after Jim Laker ten years ago . |
| 2 | Last October , just before a visit to Hong Kong by a Chinese team of experts looking into the airport , the Hong Kong government suddenly announced that a bridge that is a big part of the project would be paid for entirely with public money ; before , it had said the bridge would be private . |
| 3 | Just before a meeting with the Iranians in Frankfurt in late February 1986 , Hakim was brought in to pretend to be a translator . |
| 4 | Remember how it is often difficult to think clearly when the air is heavy just before a storm , or how your mind seems to become clear and sharp in the crisp , clean air on a mountainside or beside the sea . |
| 5 | Dr Hartwell Schulman of the Institute of Medical Climatologists has shown that just before a storm there is a reduction in atmospheric pressure which causes blood circulation to slow down . |
| 6 | She generally fills her supermarket trolley more fully when she shops just before a meal than if she shops shortly after one , when her hunger is fully satisfied . |
| 7 | I prefer my patients not to have had alcoholic drinks just before a session . |
| 8 | These new reinforcements arrived only just before a resumption of activities which were swiftly to thin their ranks to an alarming extent . |
| 9 | A tiny alarm bell rang at the back of my head : could this be the classic distraction trick that comes just before a robbery ? |
| 10 | On July 18 Sugar was one of 1,080 aircraft which unloaded some 5,000 tons of high explosive on enemy strong points in the Caen area , just before a ground offensive by British and Canadian troops . |
| 11 | In the same year Italy set a new higher rate of customs duties just before a scheduled meeting of GATT was due to discuss tariff reductions . |
| 12 | Tests on women with dermatitis found that the condition worsens just before a period , and those sensitive to base metals are most likely to develop a reaction at that time too . |
| 13 | I try not to cook anything that requires lengthy boiling just before a party to prevent the kitchen being turned into a Turkish bath . |
| 14 | Owing to Minton 's technique of holding the design together through the use of a consistent low tone , the colours are darker than one would expect and suggest the kind of livid colouring that occurs just before a storm . |
| 15 | Above all , responding now to initiatives launched by the Thatcher Government ensures that the alternative programme is not one cobbled together just before a three-week election campaign . |
| 16 | Mr. Walker : I do not blame the Hon. Gentleman for making such a speech just before a by-election , but I am glad to tell him that tomorrow I shall go through every detail of the valleys programme and I look forward to the Labour party 's publishing beside each item what the Labour Government achieved in their last five years . |
| 17 | The foreign ministers of the three Indo-Chinese regimes met on 5 January 1980 just before a visit to Hanoi by the Malaysian Foreign Minister . |
| 18 | But he goes off just before a ship sails , without telling anyone . |
| 19 | He rang me just before a show and said the words : ‘ Well , I intend to bring the show to New York . |
| 20 | They are also fitted at the lowest point of a central heating system ( and on downloops and , perhaps , next to the boiler ) and , usually , just before a garden tap . |
| 21 | Only occasionally he would say something that struck with a vague sense of warning , like the sudden , cold wind that blows along the ground just before a change in the weather . |
| 22 | Information from animal studies support this suggestion : in rat hippocampal slices in a high potassium ( 8.5 mmol/L ) medium , the frequency of spontaneous excitatory postsynaptic potentials increases just before a synchronised population burst — an in-vitro equivalent of epileptiform activity . |
| 23 | What this meant was that sitting MPs should no longer be reselected automatically by local parties just before a general election was held . |
| 24 | She tried to break from his grasp , but as she spoke he released the arm still pinned at her side and placed his hand on the curve of her neck , fondling it in a way that reminded her of an actor she 'd once seen playing Henry VIII just before a beheading scene . |
| 25 | But this was to be expected just before a general election . |
| 26 | This was to be expected just before a general election , however . |
| 27 | Charlie downed in one gulp the tot of rum that was handed out to all the men up and down the trenches just before a battle . |
| 28 | At 0700 hours the previous morning a bomb had exploded under the engine of a passenger train , just before an unmanned level crossing on the main Belfast to Londonderry railway line , in the north-west of Northern Ireland . |
| 29 | He has been assured that the old EC custom of never embarrassing member governments just before an election will still apply . |
| 30 | They are prepared to vote against the government , even at the cost of a damaging row just before an election . |