Before the 19th century, the first use of the word " police " recorded in government documents in the United Kingdom was the appointment of Commissioners of Police for Scotland in 1714 and the creation of the Marine Police in 1798 ( set up to protect merchandise at the Port of London ).

Before 1714, there was no settled practice regarding the use of the titles prince and princess other than the heir apparent and his wife.

Before Camilla the only Duchesses of Cornwall to be styled as such were Caroline, wife of the future King George II, who was styled “ Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall and Cambridge ” from 1 August to 27 September 1714 ; and Mary, wife of the future King George V, who was styled “ Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall and York ” from 22 January to 9 November 1901.

Before it was finished Rich died, 4 November 1714, leaving the building to be opened by his sons, John Rich and Christopher Mosyer Rich.

Before these laws were passed, Tribunes could only interpose the sacrosanctity of their person ( intercessio ) to veto acts of the senate, assemblies, or magistrates.

Before the advent of police authorities, the regulatory bodies for police forces confined to a single borough were these watch committees, whilst those for counties from 1889 had been " standing joint committees " ( after 1889 some control passed to the elected county council ; the joint committee also had magistrates ).

Before merging them into a common profile it is well to remember that their separate careers were extraordinary.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

Before that we lumber dealers were working almost single-handed on the problem ''.

Before WWII British ' social anthropology ' and American ' cultural anthropology ' were still distinct traditions.

Before this, many of its families were assigned to the old order Liliales: a very large order containing almost all monocots with colourful tepals and without starch in their endosperm.

Before that time, at the peak of the last ice age ( c. 16, 000 BC ) sea levels everywhere were 130 metres lower, and there were large well-watered coastal plains instead of much of the northern Aegean.

Before the 20th century, most manufactured products were made individually by hand.

Before the mention of Alemanni in the time of Caracalla, you would search in vain for Alemanni in the moderately detailed geography of southern Germany in Claudius Ptolemy, written in Greek in the mid-2nd century ; it is likely that at that time, the people who later used that name were known by other designations.

Before the early 20th century, treatments for infections were based primarily on medicinal folklore.

Before Caesar's time they had attached themselves to the Romans, and were honoured with the title of brothers and kinsmen of the Roman people.

Before the arrival of the British, Rajputs, Jats, the Kathats, Cheetas and Rawat Rajputs were land-holders, as well as cultivators.

Before the Second World War, air shows were associated with long distance air races, often lasting many days and covering thousands of miles.

Before the 19th century, tattoos and piercings were very common among the Aleut people, especially among women.

Before the invention of electronic amplifiers, mechanically coupled carbon microphones were also used as amplifiers in telephone repeaters for long distance service.

Before that time, all sacrifices were counted as sacrifice hits ( SH ), which included both sacrifice flies and bunts.

Before the adoption of carbon fibre composite, racquets were made of light metals such as aluminium.

Before that, and in some places thereafter, bikes were known primarily as velocipedes .< ref >

Before the mid-1960s, computers were extremely expensive and used only for special-purpose tasks.

Before this time bricks were generally made close to their point of intended use.

Before this discovery, it is widely believed that bricks appeared about 3000 years ago in the Western Zhou dynasty since the earliest bricks were found in Western Zhou ruins.

Before Broadway became one-way, the main bus routes along it were the New York City Omnibus Company's ( NYCO ) 6 ( Broadway below Times Square ), 7 ( Broadway and Columbus Avenue ), and 11 ( Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues ), and the Surface Transportation Corporation's M100 ( Kingsbridge ) and M104 ( Broadway Branch ).

Before the rise of the mendicant orders ( wandering friars ) in the thirteenth century, the daily services were usually contained in a number of large volumes.

Before the advent of printing, breviaries were written by hand and were often richly decorated with initials and miniature illustrations telling stories in the lives of Christ or the saints, or stories from the Bible.

Before outsourcing an organization is responsible for the actions of all their staff and liable for their actions.

Before Chip and PIN, if a customer's signature was forged, the banks were legally liable and had to reimburse the customer.

Before memory, too, clouds over, let us make a note or two of what could be seen.

Before he went into battle Andrei had told Alex, `` I only want to be a Pole.

Before your first training experiment has ended there will be a big improvement and almost before you know it you'll be raising and lowering yourself just like a veteran!!

Before considering these elements in more detail, an additional requirement should be stated.

Before the accelerometers are mounted on the platform, the direction of their sensitive axis must be accurately determined.

Before adjournment Monday afternoon, the Senate is expected to approve a study of the number of legislators allotted to rural and urban areas to determine what adjustments should be made.

Before He left them He promised that His peace would be their portion to abide in their hearts and minds.

Before the closing of the acquisition, NYSE Euronext announced that the AMEX would be integrated with the Alternext European small-cap exchange and renamed the NYSE Alternext U. S.

Before his death, he was absolved from the excommunication ; moreover, the Pope also promised that the King of Hungary and his relatives would not be excommunicated without the special permission of the Pope.

Before the towed artillery can be used, it has to stop, unlimber and set up the guns.

Before this, cities and counties of sufficiently large populations such as most of Metro Atlanta already had Sunday alcohol sales at bars and restaurants, with local ordinances to abide by, such as having a certain amount of food sales in order to be opened and serve alcohol.

Before the thirteenth century, beer was flavoured with plants such as yarrow, wild rosemary, and bog myrtle, and other ingredients such as juniper berries, aniseed and ginger, which would be combined into a mixture known as gruit and used as hops are now used ; between the thirteenth and the sixteenth century, during which hops took over as the dominant flavouring, beer flavoured with gruit was known as ale, while beer flavoured with hops was known as beer.

As the name implies, comic strips can be humorous ( for example, " gag-a-day " strips such as Blondie, Bringing Up Father, Marmaduke and Pearls Before Swine ).

Fire Bet: Before the shooter begins, some casinos will allow a bet known as a fire bet to be placed.

The terms " Common Era ", " Anno Domini ", " Before the Common Era " and " Before Christ " in contemporary English can be applied to dates that rely on either the Julian calendar or the Gregorian calendar.

Before it emerged as a unique discipline, control engineering was practiced as a part of mechanical engineering and control theory was studied as a part of electrical engineering, since electrical circuits can often be easily described using control theory techniques.

Before Stalin's consolidation of power, the Central Committee featured open debate, where even leading officials could be criticised.

) Before a major fire, typical chaparral plant communities are dominated by manzanita, chamise ( also called greasewood or Adenostoma fasciculatum ) and Ceanothus species, Toyon ( which can sometimes be interspersed with scrub oaks ), and other drought-resistant shrubs with hard ( sclerophyllous ) leaves ; these plants resprout ( see resprouter ) from underground burls after a fire.

Before 1990, CPU design was often done for this market, but mass market CPUs organized into large clusters have proven to be more affordable.

Before the RISC philosophy became prominent, many computer architects tried to bridge the so called semantic gap, i. e. to design instruction sets that directly supported high-level programming constructs such as procedure calls, loop control, and complex addressing modes, allowing data structure and array accesses to be combined into single instructions.

Before embarking on a sea voyage, planning and preparation will include studying charts, almanacs and navigation books and recent weather conditions of the route to be followed.

Before the 1999 season, fans began discussing Earnhardt's age and speculating that with his son, Dale Jr. getting into racing, Earnhardt might be contemplating retirement.

Before a systematic excavation of the site could be undertaken, the village had to be relocated but the residents resisted.