Sentence examples for had been completed before from inspiring English sources

Three of the new floors had been completed before the building fell.

The paper described work that had been completed before the student arrived on campus and about which he knew little.

Ronnie Laughton appeared to consult almost everyone on whether a tackle had been completed before or after the hooter.

Nonetheless, he said everything necessary to upgrade it as a Holiday Inn had been completed before yesterday's designation, without changing the building's exterior.

The 2005 census revealed that 11.4 billion square metres of China's housing stock had been completed before the year 2000 (with another few billion added after that).

The bank said the report had been completed before the earthquake, but was revised to account for the likely impact of the quake and its aftermath.

The statement said that criminal investigations the attorney general's office was considering into the election fraud should have been completed before results were released.

All of this should have been completed before Kavanaugh was seated, but it's not moot now that he has been sworn in.

That is another reason the Yankees will wait until every aspect of a contract with Giambi has been completed before publicizing it.

"The trial programmes were supposed to have been completed before the lunar new year when people buy more chickens and ducks than at any other time.

However it will take at least a further 20 years, when the first PFI contracts have been completed, before the real cost of PFI can be judged.