On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

The target directory must exist beforehand!

From literary sources it is known that the collapsible umbrella was invented during Wang Mang's reign, although the simple parasol existed beforehand.

Sid Sackson wrote about it in A Gamut of Games, but it undoubtedly existed beforehand.

Though existing beforehand in underground music culture, and used by several bands and artists to describe their work, the term was popularized by No-Fi "Magazine" in the mid-1990s.

Moreover, it established without precedent the genre and study of history in the Western world, although historical records and chronicles existed beforehand.

Although literary works on architecture existed beforehand, architectural writing blossomed during the Song Dynasty, maturing into a more professional form that described dimensions and working materials in a concise, organized manner.

Their principal argument was that copyright had not been created by the Statute of Anne; it existed beforehand, in the common law, and was perpetual.

"They have separate lives and there are few connections that exist beforehand," Klarik said.

Development though has been carefully undertaken to preserve much of the wildlife habitat that existed beforehand.