Example sentences of "[det] be before [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That was before birth when there was no person . |
| 5 | All that was before Baggio 's Five Greatest September Days . |
| 6 | Less than an hour before the end Europe 's chances of retaining an outright lead were judged to be somewhere between slim and nil but that was before Mark James and Howard Clark made their massive contribution . |
| 7 | Once the definition has changed ( and that was before publication of the guide ) then the criticism of the style of ascent could have been dropped , but of course it was not , and can still be seen amidst ascents where the rock is scarcely touched . |
| 8 | That was before Chris . |
| 9 | But that was before inflation , and Ralph 's not much of a businessman . |
| 10 | That was before Christmas last year and the crimes were being committed in Croatian border villages . |
| 11 | That was before planning was controlled by law , and it had no conditions attached . |
| 12 | But that was before television , people had n't seen animals . |
| 13 | But that was before Sporting 's exhilarating fightback . |
| 14 | That was before Stonehenge , in 1980 , became enclosed in a concentration camp cage , designed to keep people out , not in , and that fence was built before a Frenchman proposed to preserve the crumbling Sphinx by encasing him/her/it in a transparent plastic skin . |
| 15 | And er that was before registration of cars . |
| 16 | But that was before Tony , a supervisor on Sellafield 's THORP project , and his dad Jack , a former Seascale joiner , got to work . |
| 17 | That was before noon today . |