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PRONUNCIATION OF BEFORE THE FACT

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WHAT DOES BEFORE THE FACT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Before the Fact

Before the Fact is a novel by Anthony Berkeley writing under the pen name "Francis Iles". Iles' novel is experimental in that it is not a whodunit: It does not take long to determine the identity of the villain and his motives. According to Colin Dexter, Before the Fact is a "crime novel" rather than a "detective novel", with Iles being "the father of the psychological suspense novel as we know it today" for his authorship of Malice Aforethought and Before the Fact. It is true that the police do not play any role in the book; none of the characters are ever charged with a crime, let alone indicted for or convicted of one. Dark and suspenseful, Berkeley's thriller was adapted into the classic film Suspicion, directed by Alfred Hitchcock...

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BEFORE THE FACT

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before
before long
before one´s time
before the mast
before you could say Jack Robinson
before-and-after test
before-tax
beforehand
beforetime
befortune
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befoulment

WORDS THAT END LIKE BEFORE THE FACT

after the fact
artefact
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as a matter of fact
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French fact
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matter of fact
matter-of-fact
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Synonyms and antonyms of before the fact in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «before the fact» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BEFORE THE FACT

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The translations of before the fact from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «before the fact» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

其实之前
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

antes del hecho
570 millions of speakers

English

before the fact
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

इस तथ्य से पहले
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قبل وقوعها
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Перед тем,
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

antes do fato
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আসলে আগে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

avant le fait
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sebelum fakta
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

vor der Tatsache,
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

事実の前に
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

사실 전
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sadurunge kasunyatan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trước khi thực tế
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உண்மையில் முன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खरं आधी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Gerçeğinden önce
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

prima del fatto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przed faktem
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Перед тим ,
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

înainte de fapt
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πριν από το γεγονός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

voor die feit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

innan det faktum
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

før det faktum
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of before the fact

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BEFORE THE FACT»

The term «before the fact» is quite widely used and occupies the 27.024 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BEFORE THE FACT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about before the fact

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BEFORE THE FACT»

Discover the use of before the fact in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to before the fact and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Before The Fact
Lina McLaidlaw waits until she is 30 before accepting a marriage proposal from the feckless and irresponsible Johnnie Aysgarth.
Francis Iles, 1999
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Before the Fact
"This is the story of Lina Aysgarth, who, after eight years, discovered that she was married to a murderer"--[Pref.].
Anthony Berkeley, 1932
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Defence Before a General Court-martial Held at West-Point in ...
The procuring of a felony to be committed, though it be through the intervention of a third person, is being an Accessary before the fact. An Accessary after the fact, may be when a person, knowing a felony to have been committed, receives, ...
Thomas Ragland, 1819
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A Treatise on Crimes and Indictable Misdemeanors
7G.4. c.64. s. 9. How accessories before the fact may be tried. If offences committed in different counties, accessories may be tried in either. Only one trial. S. 10. How accessory, if after the fact, may be tried. fit), in addition to such imprisonment' ...
Sir William Oldnall Russell, 1826
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What's Really Going on with Pro-Roe V. Wade Catholic Politicians
common law rule that an accessory before the fact could not be tried and convicted unless the principal felon was first tried and convicted. And this was impossible in the case of a felony-suicide because the principal (the felo de se) was dead ...
Philip A. Rafferty, 2011
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The institutions of the law of Scotland: deduced from its ...
... of the Fact t Therefore a Donatar of Escheat recovered a Sum due to the Kebel, though assigned before the Fact,and payed before Psocessjscing Intimation was not before the Criminal Fact, Hope, Horning Chalmers Gordon con- tra Gordon.
James Dalrymple Stair (Viscount of), 1693
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The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer, Comprising the ...
It may be necessary to add, that a man cannot be committed or indicted as accessory before the fact to a felony, unless it be proved that the felony has been actually committed. But soliciting or inciting a person to commit a felony, although the ...
John Frederick Archbold, 1840
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The Cosmic Sphere
These explanations are "before-the-fact" explanations because, though they are created to account for the given phenomena described by the known facts, the explanations themselves are not considered as corroborated by evidence until ...
Kip K. Sewell, 1999
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A report of the evidence and points of law, arising in the ...
... eye of the law, is being present, aiding, and abetting, so as to make him a principal in the murder. The distinction between a person thus situated, and one who i* denominated by statute, an accessary before the fact, is, that the latter is, not ...
John Francis Knapp, Isaac Parker, Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court, 1830
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Law-dictionary Explaining the Rise, Progress and Present ...
12, and stealing of linen from bleaching-grounds, stat. 18 Geo. 2. c. 27.) which is denied to the principals, and accessories before the fact, in many cases; as among others in petit-treason, murder, robbery, and wilful burning. 1 Hale's P. C. 615.
Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, 1820

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BEFORE THE FACT»

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One person dead after shooting at nightclub in Kingstree
Troy Frierson is charged with accessory before the fact to a felony and accessory after the fact of a felony A, B, C or murder. Raheem McCrea is ... «WCBD, Jul 15»
2
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
... more about what to do before the fact to avoid the disease in the first place. It is so true that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. «Rapid City Journal, Jul 15»
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Regulatory reform explored as compliance-based approach …
... by trying to get compliance and awareness and consciousness and conduct formulated before the fact so that you don't have complaints?” «Law Times, Jul 15»
4
Speaker Yakubu Dogara's "God", the Sultan and "Others"
These concerns include ethics, politics, the appeal to party democracy and supremacy before the fact/election on one hand and its strange and ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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Do highly drafted O-linemen have an effect on position player output?
But identifying such relatively rare instances before the fact -- amid many cases where highly drafted linemen needed multiple seasons to ... «ESPN, Jul 15»
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Big cities, bigger money. MLS looks set to bust salary cap rules
... the league will flesh out the concept to the fans in time for anyone to comprehend the happenings of player acquisitions before the fact. «Inside World Football, Jul 15»
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9 Types Of People Who Will Mess Up Your Camping Trip
You can't always rely on someone to tell you they hate camping before the fact, but there should be plenty of clues for you to make that call for ... «MTV.com, Jun 15»
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"I don't need a rainbow to support equality"
Three days before the fact, God felt moved to strike down with great vengeance and furious anger with a bolt of lightning to a very convenient ... «Women24, Jun 15»
9
Durable Returns, Transient Returns – John Hussman
Can investors identify the difference before the fact? The chart below shows the S&P 500 Index (blue line) along with the “durable” portion of ... «GuruFocus.com, Jun 15»
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Hack of Federal Employee Info Has Comstock Looking for Answers …
... the OPM in the immediate aftermath of the breach when Congress did not do enough to prevent these types of cyberattacks before the fact. «Patch.com, Jun 15»

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