Example sentences of "even before it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He remarked that the River Aire , even before it reached Leeds , had received the house drainage of a quarter of a million people , and the refuse from 1,341 cloth and woollen factories , 1 silk mill , 1 flax mill , 10 cotton factories , 7 paper mills , 26 tanneries , 13 chemical works , 8 grease works , 4 glue works and 35 dye works .
2 Even before it took Peter from me , I hated the sea .
3 G&G spent a good part of a decade — the Seventies — getting drunk , the memory of which still prompts a wistful smile from Gilbert , and they were habitués of the Blitz even before it became the early-Eighties club .
4 But even before it came to public notice earlier this year , poor Mr Engholm was having to struggle to impose himself on a fractious party .
5 However even before it came under attack from conservative administrations it had failed on two counts .
6 Ipswich Airport is due to close , and even before it does lack of facilities at the grass airfield are causing problems for European industrialists planning to open plants in the area .
7 It is only by alleviating frustration immediately , or even before it becomes experienced , Robarchek argues , that the Semai are able to be so non-violent .
8 At 1989 prices , this would turn the first British PWR into a £2 billion project even before it had generated a single kilowatt of electricity .
9 Then he said : ‘ If the letters ca n't be recovered , your brother 's defence collapses even before it 's been assembled , does n't it ? ’
10 Even before it proscribed the corresponding societies by law in 1799 , thus turning a decade of more open popular radicalism into a following one of underground conspiracy and plans for insurrection , the state had begun to take things very seriously indeed .
11 Even before it opened they had become emanations of the State , a branch of the machinery of government .
12 And here lies a contradiction at the heart of AT&T 's original business , even before it tried to get into computers .
13 What the Firearms Act provides is a series of inchoate or preventive offences which criminalize conduct even before it has reached the stage of an attempt to commit some substantive offence .
14 To prove my point , it is a well-known fact that barbel quite often grab the ‘ feeder itself , sometimes even before it has reached bottom .
15 This experimental law has caused the biggest outcry even before it has been played .
16 Absolon 's portrait thus ends with particular bathos when it transpires that he still can not escape the vulgar facts of the body 's nature , try as he might : This second instance of a marked word in the Miller 's Tale encourages a recall of the context of the first , Nicholas 's grabbing of Alison , and thus even before it has been dramatically explicated completes the second fabliau triangle , Nicholas — Alison — Absolon , which forms a symmetrical reflection of the first , Nicholas — Alison — John .
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