Example sentences of "and before it " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the second day of the exhibition , and before it was opened to the general public , he had appointed the judges . |
| 2 | In fact one half of the premaxilla detached itself shortly after it was photographed and before it was re-exposed . |
| 3 | But do n't worry too much about the massive effect of these clouds over Arizona ; these are local and temporary , produced while the cloud was compact and before it spread to produce a much smaller effect over a much bigger area . |
| 4 | These last months , the women have taken it over , giving birth in the annexe and taking and bricking the babe up as soon as it breathed , and before it got found and eaten . |
| 5 | The wedding had to be postponed because she became ill , and before it could take place , the King dissolved Parliament and revoked its laws . |
| 6 | I removed the offending items , and before it had really begun Barny 's training programme came to a permanent halt . |
| 7 | Behind him there was a crescendo of applause , and before it could stop the guards were ushering the members of that sinister audience to their rooms . |
| 8 | The government had to act swiftly , Mr Balladur argued , before it was obliged to take yet tougher measures — and before it lost the chance of blaming its Socialist predecessors for their legacy . |
| 9 | It 's the kind of angle that makes us look at the space of the room that 's being photographed and the arrangement of objects in the room rather than the subjective viewpoint of the picture taker — recalling the very beginnings of photography when it was a simple recording device , and before it was considered a means of expression , when it sometimes did n't strive to imitate painting . |
| 10 | In this unorthodox theory this is interpreted as the typical time for which a dust grain moved through space after it was formed and before it accreted to the Moon . |
| 11 | Other aircraft joined in the fight , and before it could make a second attack the Albatros found itself under attack . |
| 12 | Sydney had some way to go before it was released from the burden of compulsive immigration , and before it could present to the world a face that was uniquely its own . |
| 13 | The number of detectives on the case had risen to a dozen and before it was finished that number might rise to fifty or sixty . |
| 14 | This directory is created after the media item has been initialised and before it is used for an Offline run . |
| 15 | It landed six inches from my face and before it had stopped quivering in the ground , a red one slapped down next to it . |
| 16 | It flirted three teasing words , no more in a book review in one of the posh papers and before it could be embraced , was gone . |
| 17 | The chancel screen was of polished oak and before it , surrounded by a ring of candles , lay the corpses of Sir Ralph Whitton and Sir Gerard Mowbray . |
| 18 | And before it was sort of like the tech it was mainly erm sort of post graduate retr er sort of training centre for sort of science erm science graduates |
| 19 | Pour it into a pewter container and before it solidifies embed a few matches into the mixture |