When some extraordinary array of players filed half-proudly, half-sheepishly onto the stage, looking like the Bremen Town Musicians — if those were, as I think they were, a rooster, a cat, a dog, and a donkey — you could guess beforehand that it was to be one of Gottfried's compositions.
Each year, I try and see how many I can guess beforehand.
The client turned out to be a North Indian family that was leaving Kittur; the owner, as he had guessed beforehand (from his demeanor — you can tell which of these rich people have a sense of decency and which don't), refused to tip him.
The result can't be foreseen, just guessed at beforehand and generally aimed toward.
But with a little history and a little logic, we can make an educated guess, even a few months beforehand.
Book publishers find that especially handy.For one thing, it allows them to print copies as orders come in, instead of having to guess how many to print beforehand, and then having to pulp unsold stock afterwards.
You go to watch Liverpool now and beforehand you're guessing how many players the manager has changed from the last match.
How they've been here for 15 or so years and not been noticed or captured beforehand is anyone's guess.
Particularly, the application of a recursive robustified scale factor estimation requires the initial guess, s(0), to be given beforehand.
Finally, the application of the recursive algorithm (24) or (25) requires the initial guess s(0) to be given beforehand, as it is done in Eq. (37).
It is easy to feel, as Virginia Woolf once said about an earlier cataclysm, that after Sept. 11 human consciousness changed, that beforehand no one could have guessed at the kinds of traumas and transformations that were about to unfold.
