Sentence examples for before the theme from inspiring English sources

All the reaching upward looked portentously murky before the theme was established by the other dances.

LOS ANGELES — Picture the early days of "SpongeBob SquarePants" — before the theme park tie-ins, the movies and the merchandising blitz.

Most of Mr. O'Brien's grid was easy enough to solve, and you might have needed to rely on crossings before the theme became apparent.

I'd estimate that I was slightly more than halfway through the puzzle before the theme finally clicked, but fortunately the rest of the answers weren't exactly giveaways, so it kept the remainder of the solve interesting.

For some, Fifth Avenue started its descent toward lowbrow well before the theme stores ever arrived -- back in the late 1960's, 70's and 80's, when discreet stores like De Pinna and Peck & Peck stopped selling their establishment tweeds.

The episode's surprisingly Wire-like and effective final scenes – in which Creighton's worried wife, Toni Melissa Leoo), puts on a brave face for their daughter and the camera pans down to his empty car before the theme music begins – bore the hallmarks of George Pelecanos, the novelist who co-wrote this episode with David Simon and co-wrote the penultimate episodes of each series of The Wire.

As I said before, the themes of these shows tend not to be overly important.

(Though Gray has never made an adventure story before, the themes are hardly as far afield from his previous work as it would seem.

Taylor top-scored with 30 after a series of strong drives, before following the theme of the day as she played round her pad and was another lbw victim, to Jhulan Goswami.

That was a dark time, he says, before returning to the theme of how much better he thought she was doing before she died.

Some possible reasons for this are discussed along with considerations of the political landscape of biobank ethics before the themes dominating the literature are presented: consent to participation; good governance; fairness and reciprocity; commercialization; trust and trustworthiness; and unintended effects such as breaches of confidentiality and privacy, surveillance, and social changes.