Example sentences of "even before [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the current climate of change and innovation , education must anticipate and supply professional skills even before their need is perceived by the profession . |
| 2 | The same fate befell the likes of Alan Hudson , Rodney Marsh , Tony Currie and Charlie George — all of whom were discarded even before their qualities were allowed to flourish at the highest level . |
| 3 | ‘ Getting babies hooked on soft drinks even before their first teeth have come through verges on the criminal , ’ said children 's health writer Dr Tim Lobstein . |
| 4 | Indeed in some cases , where needs and resource assessments ( upon which GREAs are calculated ) are particularly severe , authorities lose all grant entitlement even before their expenditure reaches GREA . |
| 5 | Even before their magnificent palace was completed by Bernini , they opened the theatre in it , the Teatro delle Quattro Fontane holding three thousand spectators , on 23 February 1632 , with a fresh opera by Landi , Il Sant' Alessio . |
| 6 | Sometimes , as with the French annexation of Lille and Tournai , the king took an oath to respect the rights of the newly acquired cities even before their magistracies took one of allegiance to him . |
| 7 | In Statfjord , Norway has considerably the largest North Sea field , and production , even before its full complement of platforms has been completed , comfortably exceeds that of the Shell/Esso Brent field — the largest field in the UK sector . |
| 8 | What really amazed me was the way the hawk seemed to know out of which hole the rabbit was going to pop even before its ears appeared . |
| 9 | A grasshopper , slowly chewing a leaf-blade is suddenly struck by the clubbed end of a muscular tongue projected like a lance from the mouth of a chameleon ; a field mouse in the twilight of an English wood , searching for seeds , is transfixed by the curved talons of a pouncing owl and may be dead even before its captor 's beak begins to rip it apart ; a lizard in the Arizona desert , stabbed by the hypodermic fangs of a rattlesnake , is paralysed as venom is injected into its veins and it can offer no resistance as the snake takes it in its jaws and swallows it head-first . |
| 10 | At the time , though , the Nicholson legend was slow to take off , especially in comparison to that of his chum Warren Beatty , who became a Hollywood name even before his first picture was released . |
| 11 | However , Prince Albert Victor died of thyroid even before his father became King . |
| 12 | Both books display Minton 's effervescent gaiety , but , even before his illustrations became overlaid with a period nostalgia an undertow of sadness could be discerned beneath their cheerful manner . |
| 13 | The casual offensiveness of the governor 's remarks was evident to the senator even before his aide finished his translation ; he glanced sharply at the Annamese , but it was impossible to gauge their reactions from their impassive faces . |
| 14 | Even before his Stockport vision had collapsed , Oldknow had begun a consuming preoccupation with this largely rural community . |
| 15 | The volley of arrows was thin and broken , its unevenness jangling in his nerves even before his senses recorded it . |
| 16 | Georg slammed the door shut , climbed back into the driver 's seat , started the engine , and put his foot on the accelerator even before his father was properly in . |
| 17 | They knew something was up even before my car was loaded . |
| 18 | Even before our report has been completed , the quality of my life has been improved . |
| 19 | We might have problems with the business , but Chester 's has always had money , always been relatively well-off landowners , even before your grandparents began printing fabrics ! ’ |