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Simple sentences
This happened prior to receiving your letter.
It happened prior to my arrival.
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
The defendant has no prior convictions.
A baby was flung out of its mother's arms when a plane hit severe turbulence while commencing its descent prior to landing.
What was Mary's surname prior to her wedding?
Prior to your arrival, he left for London.
I'm sorry, but I have a prior engagement.
He had an injection prior to the operation.
I have a prior engagement.
Movie subtitles
Prior to that discovery, we thought that all life on the Earth owed its existence to the sun.
When was the last funeral you conducted prior to today's?
Scarlett Ming disappeared somewhere just prior to midnight.
I'd been driving two years prior to that, but I prefer to keep things tidy.
Well, we have an ordinance prohibiting the distribution of handbills without the prior approval of town council. You're not serious, are you?
No, but it does provide you with sufficient motivation to have injured Sophie Palmer prior to the race.
Well then, that provides you with enough motivation to have injured Miss Palmer prior to the race.
Prior to that time, were you employed by the Morning Mail?
That is, if there is no prior claim.
The Prior of Monastery is expecting us.
The funeral service was held in the village church at Chalfont, prior to interment in the family vault.
We saw because prior to remember.
Had violence been done to Miss Tripp prior to her death by drowning?
During this time you've had other disputes over prior claims and water rights? - Plenty.
You're both dancers. Let's skip over the years prior to your time in Paris.
Griffin's vocal delivery reflects his momentary change back to what was surely his personality prior to the nefarious experiment.
It dealt with a research scientist, prior to disappearing himself, experimenting and making an octopus invisible in his laboratory tank.
RC Sherriff, in his 1968 autobiography, described some of the rejected adaptations he had read prior to starting his own.
Prior to that time, were you employed by the Mail?
You have testified that two months prior to your visit to Dover. Your wife drew out a second policy on her life for two thousand pounds.
Of course you realize your plea of self defence relies solely on this other man. Unless he appears and admits quarrelling with her prior to your arrival.
The action of this movie takes place prior to W.Wil. It does not claim to be a study of the morals of that period.
American civilisation prior to Christopher Columbus.
The deceased was in a comatose condition all the time prior to her death? Yes.
While the body is destroyed, the magic powers of the Lama accompany the soul which prior to its new rebirth needs to wander aimlessly, in between countless demonic appearances, through the intermediate realm of the Bardo.
A pleasure. - A pleasure. I spoke to the prior at the convent.
We saw because prior to remember. Yes we saw.
The State further offers in evidence the testimony of The Coroner. Who confirms that allegation. That the deceased suffered a severe blow on the head.. prior to death.
I spoke with the prior of the monastery.
The dragon will excite horror in every prior's heart.
Excuse me, sir, but the patient can't have any visits without prior consent.
That, and a missing' gold piece that was known to have been on him just prior to his demise.
A great deal of publicity has been given lately. to hypnotized persons who supposedly recall. an existence prior to birth.
Dr Wieck, would you, uh. would you tell us, from your own experience, the position of the judge in Germany prior to the advent of Adolf Hitler?
If Resia was here,. she would think about the safety of Nefer, prior to her own.
Four: If prior to this time. we have done nothing to suppress their retaliatory capabilities. we will suffer virtual annihilation.
Give information on Actor Karidian prior to Kodos' death.
No information available Anton Karidian prior to 20 years ago.
There are no previous records to Anton Karidian prior to 20 years ago.
And you kept following the prior, bargaining with him.
News and current affairs
The patent system may even have adverse effects on innovation, because, while the most important input into any research is prior ideas, the patent system encourages secrecy.
Prior to the crisis, many suspected that the mix of aggregate demand that was supporting high growth was unsustainable, though the problem perhaps seemed too hypothetical to compel collective action.
At least, that was how things were shaping up prior to the war in Iraq.
US policy toward Pakistan is also dangerously shortsighted and reminiscent of the mistakes the US made in Iran prior to the 1979 Islamic revolution.
It cannot consider crimes committed prior to July 1, 2002.
In the decades prior to the current financial crisis, economists gradually came to view themselves and their profession in the same way, encouraged by research trends.
Majority support for democracy in a country with no prior secular and nationalist history seems counter-intuitive.
Prior to 1890, big business was widely regarded as more efficient and generally more modern than small business.
Indeed, in the 6-12 months prior to every crisis, the IMF's forecasts implied business as usual.
But Winata himself eluded police investigation, merely by claiming publicly that his followers acted without his prior knowledge and consent.
Likewise, prior to Premier Wen Jiabao's trip to India in 2010, China began issuing visas on loose sheets of paper stapled into the passports of Kashmir residents applying to enter China - an indirect challenge to India's sovereignty.
By contrast, the US has advised American carriers to obey China's prior-notification demand.
Prior to engaging the FARC in secret talks in Cuba, Santos's regional diplomacy shifted the region's politics from saber rattling to the hard work of cooperation.
Prior to the war, most observers thought that the situation in Iraq was considerably worse than in Iran.
At the same time, the Palestinians become objects of romanticized identifications - one of the leaders of the NAFTHE motion was seen, prior to a meeting, draped in a Palestinian flag - and unwitting condescension.
Prior to the crisis, American consumers, on average, either saved nothing or accumulated debt.
The first, better-known diagnosis is that demand has collapsed because of high debt accumulated prior to the crisis.
China implemented the policies that engineered history's greatest poverty eradication program prior to, and independently from, the Millennium Declaration and the MDGs.
Fifteen years prior to onset, a positron emission tomography (PET) scan showed amyloid-beta being deposited in plaques in the brain itself.
The non-tradable sector, which created virtually all of the new employment in the two decades prior to the crisis, is stagnating, owing to a shortfall in domestic demand and seriously constrained government budgets.
Prior to the crisis, banks had often been net sellers of foreign government bonds, but they significantly increased their purchases during 2008-2009.
The results of our study are consistent with prior studies suggesting possible problems with the diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
As a result, both issues may well have to be addressed successfully prior to any move to lift the sanctions.
Moreover, Germany and Japan were relatively homogeneous societies with some prior experience of democracy.
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