Example sentences of "just before the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these instances it is not uncommon to find a government 's revenue ( as in Lesotho ) almost totally committed to paying its teacher force — hence nothing left over to equip the schools ; in which case it is worth asking whether the whole costly mechanism of providing school education has not come to an unprofitable full-stop just before the only point where it can be productive — enabling children to learn . |
| 2 | The occupational structure of the village was very different from what it had been just before the Civil War when the parish register entries had briefly given men 's occupations ; between 1636 and 1639 Thurmaston 's register noted 8 labourers , 5 shepherds , 3 husbandmen , 2 innkeepers , 2 masons , 2 male servants , a carpenter , a miller , 1 curate , a weaver , a tailor , a shearman , a spinner and a mole catcher . |
| 3 | So just one new route to report this month , climbed by Rab Anderson just before the late November thaw . |
| 4 | Their son Henry was born just before the General Election . |
| 5 | Delivered in 1925 No 4 completed her trials just before the General Strike of 1926 and was laid up until 1927 . |
| 6 | Sihanouk had fled to Beijing just before the 1979 Vietnamese invasion , having been in Phnom Penh since 1975 but without real power as an effective prisoner in the hands of the Khmers Rouges . |
| 7 | Nothing of the score 's sense of awe and mystery ( it depicts the appearance of Halley 's Comet just before the Norman Conquest of 1066 , as shown in the Bayeux Tapestry ) survived this rather brutal account . |
| 8 | In my case , growing up just before the new wave of feminism , I consider that the transition from adolescence to adulthood was effected by participation in a strong peer group of girls at school . |
| 9 | Just before Christmas 1966 was ‘ Night Tripper ’ ; just before the New Year UFO , the club of the early underground , opened its doors . |
| 10 | The total dividend goes up from 10.3p to 11.5p , but it will be paid on 2 April , just before the new 20 per cent tax credit on dividends comes into force , rather than in June , saving the company £940,000 , or the equivalent of 0.224p a share . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The first lot of American research institutes , just before the first world war , was more politically innocent . |
| 13 | The atmosphere just before the First World War was free , live and very young . |
| 14 | Perhaps it is only in retrospect that the artists ' balls , the fancy-dress dances , the 14th of July celebration seemed more brilliant than usual that summer just before the First World War . |
| 15 | At Kigoma in Tanganyika a multi-storeyed station was constructed just before the First World War . |
| 16 | Until just before the First World War , a strong decoction containing sarsaparilla , calomel , cinnabar , anise , fennel , senna , and liquorice was warmed up and taken in quart doses daily for ten days . |
| 17 | When the referee talks to the two boxers just before the first round , each fighter stares closely and directly into the opponent 's eyes . |
| 18 | And the entire thing was preceded by a death at one of the near farms , just before the first of the storms came . |
| 19 | Pygmalion and Heartbreak House are the work of a writer at the peak of his powers : the former written just before the first world war , the latter just after it . |
| 20 | The famous ‘ Golly ’ originated just before the first world war from an American design . |
| 21 | Just before the First World War over 90 per cent of households rented privately . |
| 22 | The Brook flows under the shops opposite , built just before the First World War . |
| 23 | They rode through just before the first of the big gate timbers descended in an explosion of sparks . |
| 24 | Set in Austria just before the First World War the play revolves around Josephea , proprietress of the inn ; Leopold , the head waiter ; several well-to-do local businessmen and the Emperor of Austria who comes to stay at the Inn at the start of the shooting season . |
| 25 | Just before the first Test they rejected blind-side flankers Mick Galwey and Mike Teague and chose to play Ben Clarke , tour No 8 , out of position . |
| 26 | Burning the Bush was a ceremony on Herefordshire farms which died out just before the First World War — the ‘ bush ’ being a ball of hawthorn twigs and mistletoe , ceremonially burned on a wheatfield early on New Year 's morning , and replaced by a new one which hung in the farmhouse until next New Year . |
| 27 | Then you got to er the picture house er that happened just before the First World War that was put up as far as I can remember , I know I used to go there and see erm the Broken Coin which was a serial picture and it was you know er where somebody was up to their neck in water one week and it would say that the continuation of this picture would be shown in this theatre one week from today and you . |
| 28 | On the way I passed the rabbit I thought had escaped , lying just before the sparkling clean water of the stream ; blackened and contorted , locked into a weird , twisted crouch , its dead dry eyes staring up at me as I passed by , accusatory . |
| 29 | The high point in the ramp 's history has to be the period from 1984 until just before the recent skateboard boom that started around 1986/7 . |
| 30 | Talbot listened again , and just before the allotted minute was up , he leaned forward and creased his brow . |