Example sentences of "before the first [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two days to go before the first home game of the season . |
| 2 | The second part starts at the beginning of Term 5 , before the first teaching practice ; it continues for four further weeks at the beginning of term 6 in the same teaching practice school . |
| 3 | The inventor must resist any temptation he might have to publish details of his invention before the first filing date ( the priority date ) , otherwise he could inadvertently add his invention to the state of the art and anticipate his own invention . |
| 4 | Education in Wolverton was well established thirty years before the first Education Act . |
| 5 | ( a ) the date on which the scheme is to come into effect , being a date not later than the day immediately before the first transfer date ; and |
| 6 | During this first step the variable FIRE is zero , so no step commands are issued before the first position detector pulse is received . |
| 7 | Now right at the beginning of a claim you can have an odd number of days before the first benefit week ending day . |
| 8 | Mother would n't have anything to do with it whatsoever , do n't you bring anything , any of that stuff into our house , I mean of course it be this New Zealand lamb had just arrived on the scene before the First Word War , I mean nobody was , anybody dare have it I mean they 'd be standing on the pavement at eleven o'clock at night almost giving it away on Saturday night , but anyway that 's all changed now , we all eat it . |
| 9 | In the conversations , he talks of preparing Mahler 's Fifth Symphony over two years of play-throughs , rehearsals , and recording before the first concert performance in Berlin . |
| 10 | The presence or severity of the lesions contributing to the anaemia was difficult to interpret at endoscopy in 43 of the patients as they had received a course of H 2 antagonists ( n=18 ) or had reduced or stopped aspirin or NSAIDs ( n=32 ) , or both , before the first hospital attendence . |
| 11 | In some patients , there was four-fold increase in antibody response before the first sputum culture of P cepacia . |
| 12 | The archetype here is Guillaume Apollinaire , special pleader for modernism before the first World War . |
| 13 | William Blogg , whose brewery disappeared just before the First World War , is one of a whole host of East End brewers whose names live on , even if they no longer brew . |
| 14 | The company made at least one take-over of another East End brewery before the First World War , John Furze and Co 's St George brewery , Church Lane , Whitechapel , in 1901 . |
| 15 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 16 | Before the First World War the impact of the new colonial governments on this pattern of agriculture was extremely limited . |
| 17 | What evidence is there of this kind of behaviour at football matches before the First World War or in the inter-war period ? |
| 18 | But do these totals prove that hooligan behaviour of a kind broadly comparable with the present day was widespread before the First World War ? |
| 19 | Those who donated this amount — a princely sum before the First World War — had the right to select a baptismal name . |
| 20 | Sometimes called the ‘ Jazz Modern ’ style , International Modern was a term coined in the United States to refer to the new architectural style of the twentieth century , which architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius were creating before the First World War . |
| 21 | Tsarist Russia before the First World War held that position , earning a third of its foreign exchange from grain sales . |
| 22 | The first lot of American research institutes , just before the first world war , was more politically innocent . |
| 23 | Before the first world war , and even after it , the rich were notable not just for having money but for having the leisure to enjoy it . |
| 24 | There were clearly changes occurring , and the borderlines between social classes , never very clear at the best of times , were probably less precise than they had been before the First World War — though class barriers were by no means collapsing in the real world of health , education and social opportunity . |
| 25 | Some have maintained that the Liberal Party was being rapidly undermined before the First World War and that its decline was almost inevitable , others , however , assume that it was the First World War which was responsible for the decline of a vapid Liberal Party — the divisions within Liberal ranks creating the political vacuum into which the Labour Party slipped . |
| 26 | For many its decline began before the First World War , as a consequence of its inability to maintain the trade-union and working-class support in the face of the challenge of the Labour Party . |
| 27 | On balance the evidence suggests that the Liberal decline began before the First World War , but there is no denying that the war speeded up this process . |
| 28 | We have always in Czechoslovakia been proud of being Europeans , as we were before the First World War and between the wars . |
| 29 | Mrs Belgrove , a 32-year-old agricultural graduate , started by hacking down trees and giant weeds , under which were plants such as sedum and aquilegia which had been hidden since before the First World War . |
| 30 | The atmosphere just before the First World War was free , live and very young . |