Sentence examples for been forgotten before from inspiring English sources

Some of it had been forgotten before it was possible to commit it to writing; fire, war, and the ravages of time have robbed posterity of most of the rest; and the restitutions that archaeologists and paleographers achieve from time to time are small.

Ideally, they will have all been given a brief induction tour by a member of the permanent Westminster staff, which will have been forgotten before it's even over, and the lucky ones will have been assigned senior MPs from their own party as mentors.

And if he'd tele-prompted his way through some grave remarks about the shooting and fires that hit California like biblical plagues in the past week, likewise, those words would have been forgotten before the smoke cleared.

Most V.P.'s are forgotten before the next election.

That could have been a disaster but given the quality of everything else it is forgotten before too long.

Who knows how many of Dickinson's lines were forgotten before the poet had a chance to write them down?

The company has since restated its profits downward by about $600 million, and it is likely that more profits will be forgotten before the scandal is over.

Meanwhile, the culture vultures at the art fest will be jostling to see stuff that's guaranteed to be forgotten before the next Biennale.

Krun, the Mandaean lord of the underworld, is there with Meng-p'o, "the old lady who greets you in the Chinese Underworld and ensures that all memories of life are forgotten before the soul is reincarnated".

The majority of resolutions will lapse and be forgotten before the end of January, because there's no right or wrong time to start behaving differently or change the way you live.

Each one pluming her feathers and thinking she is the hen pheasant, when in reality she is forgotten before her successor appears".This stark difference between his public reputation and his private behaviour inspired the funniest line attributed to Morgan.