Example sentences of "before [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below : Procession in 1983 in Trafalgar Square before the Memorial Service in St Martins in the Fields organised by Amnesty International for the victims of political killings by governments . |
| 2 | The archetype here is Guillaume Apollinaire , special pleader for modernism before the first World War . |
| 3 | Fry 's opening words are : ‘ Those artists among us whose formation took place before the war recognise Cézanne as their tribal deity , and their totem . ’ |
| 4 | Some of the work for a museum catalogue may have already been done before the acquisition of a picture . |
| 5 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | Some latitude can be allowed to serious critics who write for periodicals which go to press a long time before a show is on view ; these critics will not be able to comment on how the exhibition actually looks , as their articles will have been written before the show 's installation . |
| 7 | In 1975 , the year after the fall of Haile Selassie , and four years before the fall of the Shah , the witness of revolutions turned up in Angola for the abandonment of their colony by the Portuguese : the subject of the third of these books of his . |
| 8 | Owen , seven years younger , was killed one week before the war ended . |
| 9 | But if this was the ideal placed before the clergy and members of religious orders , the reality for the people was generally somewhat different . |
| 10 | It is true that the constitution was explicit in recognizing important personal rights in Article 40 : equality before the law , the non-recognition of nobility privileges , defence of person and property , liberty , no detention without trial , freedom of speech and assembly . |
| 11 | A proposal before the Church of Ireland synod in May 1979 to support interdenominational education was defeated , despite pressure from its ecumenical lobby . |
| 12 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |
| 13 | Michael Thomas Bass , the great entrepreneur who turned Bass into a great Victorian company and , before the rise of the American giants , the biggest brewery in the world at Burton upon Trent . |
| 14 | Before the Gulf conflict , about two million Arabs and 250,000 non-Arabs visited Jordan each year . |
| 15 | According to Har Govind , a former chief commissioner of income tax , the existing limit of 40% will be increased to 51% under industrial legislation put before the Indian Parliament last month . |
| 16 | From the beginning of 1992 there will also be a joining fee of £150 per hotel , but businesses joining before the end of the year avoid that . |
| 17 | ‘ In fact , from what Perkins was just telling his inspector on the telephone , anybody might have slipped into the Cookery Tent before the judging and put a poisoned cherry into temptation 's way for Henry Phipps . ’ |
| 18 | Once at Finsbury Park , the cameras caught them at the sound check , in interviews , backstage , and relaxing before the gig . |
| 19 | Postal bookings are accepted up to 48 hours before the screening or event . |
| 20 | I was offered a cleaning job that I did n't much like the look of so I left quietly before the final curtain . |
| 21 | We ended up trading memories of Paris in the fifties and England before the war . |
| 22 | Harvest before the frost , and store in a cool place until required . |
| 23 | Cover with Agryl P17 before the first frosts . |
| 24 | Trim them back , dead-head regularly and bring in before the first frosts and you should have flowers for months to come |
| 25 | I have often seen pilots fitting the tailplane on before the wings . |
| 26 | The control check is often better done initially before the vital actions , perhaps even before getting into the cockpit , when the control surfaces can be seen more easily . |
| 27 | It may allow the airbrakes to open during a launch if the lever is knocked or if one side is unlocking a little before the other . |
| 28 | They take less than 30 seconds to do and they should be left until the last moment before the cable or rope is attached . |
| 29 | Accidental stalls seldom happen when the glider is being flown straight , and most result in one wing stalling before the other , causing a wing-drop . |
| 30 | Before the days of T-tails , there was a possibility of the downward movement of the elevator causing some blanketing of the rudder and reducing its effectiveness . |