11.   Before long he took over the editing of the magazine.

12.   Although a date for the elections was not set, the government indicated that it was anxious for voting to take place before the end of the year.

13.   By the thirteenth century, as far as marriage was concerned, church authorities were insisting on the importance of marriage taking place before witnesses in public.

14.   One blood sample was taken before endoscopy and the patients then had a colonoscopy to the caecum.

15.   Serum pepsinogen I was measured in the sample taken immediately before starting the meal by the commercial radioimmunoassay kit manufactured by Incstar Ltd.

16.   Although nine patients had taken oral contraceptives before gall stone dissolution, only one did so afterwards.

17.   And if they do, they will be taken before the courts.

18.   Labour yesterday demanded publication of the report, which warns that British industry is in a lamentable state and will take decades before being fit enough to compete internationally.

19.   Just before Christmas he took an overdose of pills.

20.   Downing Street said that the decision to provide help in addition to the inflation upgrading had been taken before the Budget and that there was therefore no U-turn.