Sentence examples for before in the form from inspiring English sources

At that point, the studio had only done animation once before, in the form of a Christmas special led by Ralph Bakshi.

No, while the Great Recession did expedite the city's insolvency, the roots were planted years before in the form of a nutty governance structure that left no one fully in charge.

The real gateway to the Olympic park had been determined long before – in the form of a gigantic shopping mall.

During a preliminary interview this April, Mr. Levin explained that getting distribution in national chain stores had been challenging, but that Perky Jerky appealed to retail category managers who "have seen lightning strike before in the form of 5-Hour Energy and even Red Bull".

With patients paying more out of pocket for their health care than ever before — in the form of higher co-payments and co-insurance, high deductibles and uncovered and out-of-network treatments — negotiating with doctors and other providers has become commonplace.

You may have seen these before in the form of animated advertisements visible through the windows of subways.

He appeared before them in the form of Batista, the veteran right-hander who pitched effectively against DeSalvo last week.

However steeplechasing of a sort was going on in England and Ireland long before 1800, in the form of hunting matces, or horse-against-horse contests, over open country.

All the same, three-fifths still goes to the same cash-strapped SOEs as before, usually in the form of working capital.

So I think it is very much television, and it's very much part of the kind of television that was created by David Chase [with "The Sopranos"], and that existed before that in the form of a miniseries.

When the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was formed in 1801, the laurel went to Dublin before passing in the form of "Second City of the British Empire" to Glasgow for much of the Victorian era.