Example sentences of "that precede it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is odd to speak of the creation of a state as the ‘ pretext ’ for anything : the translator may possibly be responsible for the oddity here , as for the orotundity that precedes it . |
| 2 | The paragraph mark is typed at the end of a paragraph whenever you tap Enter It contains paragraph ( not character ) formatting instructions for the paragraph that precedes it , eg tab stops or justification . |
| 3 | Equally we might accept the temporal regress caused by supposing that for each moment in time there is a moment that precedes it , or the causal regress derived from the propositions that every event has a separate cause and that every cause is an event . |
| 4 | What such books include when they claim to describe the British ‘ constitution ’ depends on what their authors consider important to the framework of the system : what the ‘ constitution ’ consists of thus emerges from a survey of the system and is not determined by an independent , non-political definition that precedes it . |
| 5 | At the same time , though less abrasive , the book is only intermittently less sophisticated than those that preceded it . |
| 6 | What is more , the current XJS ragtop is structurally inferior to the cabriolet ( with Stag-like superstructure ) that preceded it . |
| 7 | But all that preceded it was very important too . |
| 8 | Holland 's interpretation was that in the second phase of training an association was formed between the illness produced by the injection and a CS-evoked representation of the food that preceded it . |
| 9 | Contrary to our knowledge today , this last was considered to be less civilized than the bronze age that preceded it . |
| 10 | Sometimes converging swells will synchronize to produce a peak that is higher than any of the separate peaks that preceded it . |
| 11 | It is with this startling new perspective in mind that we view the eukaryotic cell 's rapid multiplication as it spread throughout the world 's oceans , finally replacing all the free-floating molecule strands that preceded it . |
| 12 | And although Platinum has , like the spreadsheet solution that preceded it , some limitations , he sees it as a good basis for future developments . |
| 13 | Nothing that preceded it could have prepared its audience for a work of such comic brilliance , masterly characterization , and sheer breadth of conception . |
| 14 | Thus , in trying to change teaching , ironically it is likely that the recommendations arising from this kind of research , like much of the research on teacher effectiveness that preceded it , will help keep teaching the same by failing to look outside the parameters of the transmission model . |
| 15 | Foucault thus does not merely set up an alternative history , but contends that that alternative is part of a displacement that is in the process of replacing the history that preceded it . |
| 16 | It 's not quite as good as the bonking ladybirds that preceded it , but every single ad in the campaign so far has been a gem . |
| 17 | At the end of the match Comte Ghislain de Vogüé of Moët et Chandon , who had come over from France especially for the match and the luncheon that preceded it ; and Viscountess Marchwood , wife of the managing director of Moët et Chandon UK , presented the Moët et Chandon prizes , and Miss Liz Kershaw the publisher of Harpers & Queen presented the Harpers & Queen trophy . |
| 18 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |
| 19 | And whatever views the Exchequer Chamber may have had about their decision , succeeding generations have regarded it as the starting-point of a liability wider than any that preceded it . |
| 20 | It will inevitably be a political process but it will be a more informed political judgement , the reformers claim , than the pure bargaining process that preceded it . |
| 21 | The exhibition was undoubtedly a great success , and it put Cubism on the map more than any other exhibition that preceded it . |
| 22 | They recorded information on the circumstances of the death and the symptoms and signs that preceded it on a form that included both an open history of the final illness and screening questions for the presence of common symptoms , followed by the application of appropriate modules with precoded answers . |