Example sentences of "even before it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both take some following , and the Cobra in particular will probably never be repeated — not even with the Viper , which seems to be losing its fangs even before it 's born . |
| 2 | And here lies a contradiction at the heart of AT&T 's original business , even before it tried to get into computers . |
| 3 | We had notice of Sarah 's barrenness even before it properly got under way ( 11.30 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Even before it took Peter from me , I hated the sea . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sandra , who once saw a bad LSD experience , became fixed to what he called a firm mystical path , seeking enlightenment even before it was fashionable . |
| 8 | EVEN BEFORE IT was declared redundant in 1977 , All Souls looked a lost cause . |
| 9 | The little horse was the most extraordinary thing that had ever happened to him in all his life , appearing like that in the torchlight and looking at him even before it was wholly born , as if to say , ‘ Hi , mate . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Even before it was given the food , the dog began to produce saliva in response to the appetizing smell . |
| 12 | Imagine working with plant that was obsolete even before it was installed in the 1940s . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Even before it was dissolved the TBC had effectively become an arm of the Government under the Ministry of Information and Tourism , and the Minister was clearly determined to impose controls . |
| 16 | The frontispiece from a copy of the music from the Peer Gynt suite by Grieg was a beautiful piece of artwork even before it was decorated , so I only arranged some flowers in two of the corners , rather than all the way round , which would have overpowered the original design . |
| 17 | In a sense , the competition is judged even before it is judged . |
| 18 | Developments the other side of the globe meant that the B-70 was becoming obsolete even before it was built . |
| 19 | COUNCIL TAX is the son of Poll Tax and even before it is levied is growing up as monstrous as its father . |
| 20 | This experimental law has caused the biggest outcry even before it has been played . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This may be given by reference to time elapsing after the date of issue of the document , and it is quite possible for the time-limit to be passed before the document can be served or even before it is received by the Central Authority . |
| 24 | Adenauer gave the Schuman Plan his blessing even before it was announced . |
| 25 | For centuries before the arrival of Westerners it had been the symbol of the soul and of eternal life ; and for the Chinese , who traded with the southern islands long before the time of Christ , the bird became associated with the phoenix myth — which crept across the continents into the mind of medieval Europe , even before it was known that the world was round . |
| 26 | The train eased into the station and he got to his feet , heading for the door , pressing the ‘ D O O R O P E N ’ button even before it was illuminated . |
| 27 | 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 ? ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | However even before it came under attack from conservative administrations it had failed on two counts . |
| 30 | Even before it was light , he dressed and went out . |