Example sentences of "[noun sg] just prior " in BNC.
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1 | Obviously the progress made in educational thinking just prior to 1973 , and in its interpretation , had been quite dramatic and the way was clear for the first time to develop long-term objectives for education . |
2 | The cause of their mystification was the appearance of a strange-looking object positioned in the bowling crease just prior to the start of play , a star-shaped construction made up of black metal tubes radiating from a central point and festooned with little white balls at regular intervals along each arm . |
3 | 19 year old Barbara Griffiths from Middlesex , won the 17th annual British Women 's Tennis Association tournament which was held at the Queen 's Club just prior to Christmas . |
4 | The patient was also quite unaware that he had been rubbing his chest just prior to fainting . |
5 | One of the neighbours told officers he saw two youths running away from the scene just prior to the fire being discovered . |
6 | It is nearly always female and her voice is usually heard wailing near the family 's ancestral home just prior to a person 's death . |
7 | Reagan 's television appearances furthermore were carefully scheduled to take place just prior to critical votes on his budgetary and tax policy . |
8 | Equally , the valuation may take place just prior to the end of the month and deliveries be made after the valuation but before the end of the month . |
9 | Again , as we launch into the second movement andante ( lots of energy , a real spirit of dance in the ostinato is a mite tasteful , discreet rather than craggily elemental ; so , to a point , is the brawny bass line which spurs us on to stratospheric violins and shining trumpets , though true to form Pešek is wonderfully atmospheric , nurturing and distilling the moments of quiet contemplation just prior to the coda . |
10 | It would be convenient to be able to write an instruction to add into the accumulator the contents of store address 99 , and to have some automatic means for modifying the instruction just prior to its execution , so that it refers successively to addresses 100 , 101 , 102 , and so on . |
11 | Cheshire were left plenty of time to pursue a victory target of 174 , and even an 18-minute rain stoppage just prior to the start of the final hour failed to unduly affect them . |
12 | This involved presenting a priming word just prior to a target letter string . |
13 | Sutherland continued : ‘ But lately , in his perpetual need to IRRITATE , to keep The Smiths APART , Morrissey 's taken on a cosmetic political stance which could be a dark mirror intentionally reflecting the pathetic propaganda that polluted this nation just prior to a general election . ’ |
14 | The pound fell again in late September over doubts of Britain entering the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) of the European monetary system , but gained strength just prior to the then Chancellor John Major 's announcement that the UK would join the ERM on Oct. 8 , 1990 . |
15 | Ladies often come to my classes and explain that they have been very good all week and yet had a binge just prior to the class ! |
16 | It can be contained by medication and he had been receiving treatment at a hospital in Salford as a voluntary patient just prior to his trip . |
17 | Two were ‘ career ’ users , one of opioids and one of speed ; one woman 's husband was a dealer ; two other women began to steal from their husband 's ‘ stash ’ without his knowledge ; two were unemployed ; and one had been left a small legacy just prior to his heroin use . |
18 | Since this is a purely morphological description it can embrace all stages in development from compacted 8-cells to the 16- to 32-cell stage just prior to blastocoel formation . |