Before the sale was announced, Anthony Bamford, chairman of British excavators manufacturer JCB, had expressed interest in purchasing Jaguar Cars in August, the year previously ; only to back out when told the sale would also involve Land Rover, which he did not wish to buy.

Before the Twelve Tables ( 754 – 449 BC ), private law comprised the Roman civil law ( ius civile Quiritium ) that applied only to Roman citizens, and was bonded to religion ; undeveloped, with attributes of strict formalism, symbolism, and conservatism, e. g. the ritual practice of mancipatio ( a form of sale ).

Before even hiring a new General Manager or officially being approved as the new owners, Magowan signed superstar free agent Barry Bonds ( a move which MLB initially blocked until some terms were negotiated to protect Lurie and Bonds in case the sale failed ).

Before closing in December 1992, the Fairmont plant was one three frozen vegetable processing plants producing product for the United Foods family of canned vegetables for sale throughout the United States.

Before the sale, the panelling of the " Henry VIII parlour " ( preserved from the earlier hall ) was given to Leeds City Council and moved to Temple Newsam house.

Before the opening credits begin, a dedication to Yusuf Hawkins is shown, who was killed on August 23, 1989, in Bensonhurst, New York, by neighborhood folk who believed the youth was involved with a white girl in the neighborhood, though he was actually in the neighborhood to inquire about a used car for sale in the area.

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Before this, the ticket office was only staffed for a few hours every week to allow the sale of period Travelcards and other season tickets.

Never before in Siam could agricultural products be for sale and exports rather than subsistence farming ( Before Bowring, those who traded rice with foreigners would be executed for treason ).

Before the sale and merger of Goldwyn Pictures in April 1924, Goldwyn had established Samuel Goldwyn Productions in 1923 as a production-only operation ( with no distribution arm ).

Before the Crusades, Jews had practically a monopoly on the trade in Eastern products, but the closer connection between Europe and the East brought about by the Crusades raised up a class of Christian merchant traders, and from this time onwards, restrictions on the sale of goods by Jews became frequent.

Before its most recent purchase and sale, the hotel was operated by CSX Hotels, Inc., a subsidiary of the CSX Corporation.

Before large scale mechanization arrived in the 1950s, keeping a dozen milk cows for the sale of milk was profitable.

Before Confederation with Canada, the mercantile classes of St John's, Newfoundland became rich by holding a near-monopoly stranglehold on both the supply of goods to the Newfoundland outports and on the sale of fish from them.

Before the sale to Michelin, Goodrich ran television and print ads showing an empty expanse of blue sky, to distinguish themselves from the similar-sounding Goodyear tire company.

Before he assumed his Lucas role he was part of the sale of Rover to BMW.

Before each offering and sale is actually made, the company must file a relatively short statement regarding material changes in its business and finances since the shelf prospectus was filed.

Before the sale, and especially before Detroit's WKBD-TV went on the air in 1965, CKLW-TV was often likely to preempt games involving the Toronto Maple Leafs if the Montreal Canadiens hosted the Detroit Red Wings on Hockey Night in Canada.

Before the sale was approved, Corus had announced in late September that they planned to rebrand the channel, however, Corus did not give any specific details regarding the rebranding.

Before even completing further renovations, Hershey Corporation abruptly backed out in the winter of 1987 and put the park up for sale for next to nothing.

Before Tania's mother Nadia Bunke died in 2003, she also managed to have the book Tania, the Woman Che Guevara Loved by Uruguayan author José A Friedl, removed from sale in Germany.

Before September 1995, singles were allowed to chart in the week they first went on sale based on airplay points alone.

Before the sale became final in 1995, it was determined that Fox's stock in SF would not be considered voting stock.

" By 1835, little of the Mission's assets remained, though the manufacture of hides and tallow continued in full swing as described in Richard Henry Dana's classic novel Two Years Before the Mast.

Before he does anything else, Mason hides the tape in a small hole in his kitchen wall.

Before returning to Amber he hides the Jewel of Judgment on Earth.

Before commencing each match, an umpire hides one black and one white carrom man in his hands.

Before the Norman Conquest two hides of land in Oakley belonged to Alwid ( or Ælfgeth ) the maid, and another half a hide of land granted her by Godric the sheriff on condition that she taught his daughter embroidery.

Before its maiden voyage, Alex sneaks aboard and hides a bomb within the bus.

Before the celebration dinner, Helene finds Linda's suicide note, but hides it after becoming upset by the contents ( which are not revealed to the audience ).

Before the Grand Canal was rebuilt, grain was transferred to Beijing in two ways ; one route was simply via the East China Sea, from the port of Liujiagang ( near Suzhou ); the other was a far more laborious process of transferring the grain from large to small shallow barges ( after passing the Huai River and having to cross southwestern Shandong ), then transferred back to large river barges on the Yellow River before finally reaching Beijing.

Before the harvest, she was offered a propitiary grain sample ( praemetium ).

Before Christianisation, in traditional pagan European culture it was believed that the spirit of the corn ( in modern American English, " corn " would be " grain ") lived amongst the crop, and that the harvest made it effectively homeless.

Before 1910 the city boasted a church, three grain elevators, a hardware store, two mercantile stores, a butcher shop, bank, machine shop, implement shop, blacksmith shop, pool hall, lumberyard, and a hotel, which also housed the barber shop, saloon, and post office.

Before economical truck transportation was available, grain elevator operators would sometimes use their purchasing power to control prices.

Before the grain can be used, the husks must be removed.

Before Christianisation, in traditional pagan European culture it was believed that the spirit of the corn ( in modern American, " corn " would be " grain ") lived amongst the crop, and that the harvest made it effectively homeless.

Before the sacrifice, the sacrificial victim was led three times around a grain field where a chorus of farmers and farm-servants danced and sang praises for Ceres and offered her libations of milk, honey and wine.

Before the development of extruded expanded puffed grain cereals, only flake type cereals had been marketed.

Before the material is hardened, the microstructure of the material is a pearlite grain structure that is uniform and laminar.

Before the invention of the grain cradle ( ca.

Before the tube reaches the ovule, the nucleus of the generative cell in the pollen grain divides and gives rise to two sperm nuclei which are then discharged through the tube into the ovule for fertilization.

Before this they had received the grain in sacks which were transferred by horse dray from the canal basin, the weight being such that an extra horse was added to haul the dray up Spital Hill to reach Carlisle Street.