Sentence examples for Before proved from inspiring English sources

An earlier effort by Deutsche Bank to establish such a presence, like those of a few Japanese banks before, proved to be expensive failures.

Apparently, Wagner's four-opera, 16-hour cycle, for a director who had never worked on a stage before, proved too much of an Everest.

This in turn tells researchers that the quantum wave looks a bit like a four-leaf clover with its petals lying along the rows of atoms--a fact suspected, but never before proved.

In another case, causal genes of reproductive barrier in rice, which had been thought to be allelic before, proved to be a complex of two very tightly linked genes.

Following up with the women I interviewed before proved to be incredibly difficult — I tried to reach out to all the local "Perfect Madness" mothers who were stay-at-home moms at the time, and virtually none responded to my queries.

The changes sweeping through the movie ecosystem came into sharp focus at this year's Sundance Film Festival, where Netflix and Amazon — which had been tentative players just a year before — proved the dominant force, hungrily snatching up many of the most closely watched titles.

Say that u has a tree child; the same argument as before proves that this child must be a leaf i.

(The ships crashed, in separate storms, before proving their battleworthiness).

Elder does so immediately, but younger waits until elder has exchanged before proving it.

"It's as though sovereign wealth funds are guilty before proven innocent".

It usually grows slowly and can take years before proving fatal.