Sentence examples for not there before from inspiring English sources

"This is a solid eastern bookend to the downtown area that was not there before," said Frank Zuckerbrot, a partner at Sholom & Zuckerbrot Realty in Long Island City.

"We've added some quantitative things that were not there before," said Dr. Malden Nesheim, provost of Cornell University and chairman of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, the nine-member panel of nutrition experts who developed the new guidelines.

"This is a new opportunity that was not there before," said Pierre Chao, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a nonpartisan group in Washington that closely follows international affairs and generally favors a strong stance abroad.

How were these... not there before?

While it is true that many man-made chemicals have very close structural relatives in nature (Wackett 2009), specific classes of chemical compounds that were not there before are also now abundant in the environment.

Was it not there before?

"That's competition that wasn't there before," he said.

This "resulted in a tension in the office that wasn't there before," Jones said.

There is the issue of terrorism that wasn't there before," Mr Ignatieff concedes.

Creating a character that wasn't there before, creating an image.

"There does seem to be a determination to get the job done that wasn't there before," Mr. Stearns said.