Sentence examples for before it was generally from inspiring English sources

Flamsteed finally won his point and by court order had the printed catalog returned to him before it was generally distributed.

But the Murphys were not mere collectors of luminous literati; they had a discerning eye for talent before it was generally recognized.

It was only a matter of time before it was generally acknowledged that the Commons were an integral part of that institution.

One example of a word that went through a long journey before it was generally accepted is tjej [the modern Swedish word for girl], which was around for 150 years before it was written in dictionaries.

As Benjamin Franklin noted, "You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on".

The observation that insulin decreases the cerebral extracellular glucose concentration even when the blood glucose level remains unaffected is difficult to explain and would need further confirmation before it is generally accepted.

The agony aunt endured throughout the 20th century ("my sweetheart is away fighting, and I have lost my heart to another,") but it wasn't until the late 60s that sex reared up in the problem pages (before that, it was generally called "being silly" or "going too far with a boy").

Before then, it was generally thought that resistance to Z. tritici was a quantitative, polygenic trait.

Before this experiment, it was generally believed that nervous system cells could not revert back to a flexible stem cell state, so it was a surprise to see that process in action, Adameyko says.

"Before the 2000s, it was generally thought Mesozoic mammals could not diversify much in the dinosaur-dominated ecosystem," said Dr Zhe-Xi Luo from the University of Chicago's Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, who co-authored the papers analysing Agilodocodon scansorius and Docofosser brachydactylus.

In retrospect, this goal may have been conservative, but before this study it was generally unclear whether a smart phone can run closed-loop control, and there was no experience to guide the choice of this goal.