Example sentences of "the [noun sg] before [pron] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr de Klerk telephoned Mrs Thatcher at the Conservative conference in Blackpool to tell her of the decision before it was announced in South Africa . |
| 2 | It marked the end of the long process of transformations — starting with the seething leaves of the plant , then the reeking green stage of the first steepings , and the sulphurous yellow stage of the liquor before it was exposed to the air , then binding with the air , it gradually turned to blue . |
| 3 | If the acquirer 's solicitors are to prepare the agreement , it is very important that they are fully informed as to the acquirer 's aims and concerns about the acquisition and its assessment of its bargaining position and that they discuss the draft with the acquirer before it is released to the seller . |
| 4 | Basic interfaces will provide the driver software on cassette which must be loaded into the Spectrum before it is used while the more sophisticated offerings contain all the necessary software in ROM inside the interface itself . |
| 5 | He points out there is no evidence that Hunter was connected with the College before he was nominated an honorary member in March 1791 , and that he did not attend any meetings of the College before December 1791 . |
| 6 | Yet he accepts , as we think he must , that if a section 2(2) notice had been served upon the applicant before he was charged it would have overridden the caution which was presumably administered to him upon his arrest . |
| 7 | I saw it on the telly before I was banged up . |
| 8 | That 's why , even today , Man at Dartington has to sweat ten years in front of the furnace before he 's considered a Masterblower . |
| 9 | The effluent from Belmont is treated by a sewage works which does not have the necessary filtering equipment to remove the chemical before it is discharged into a nearby river . |
| 10 | The contractor responds to this and obtains the ‘ Conditions of Tender ’ , a written specification of the form in which the tender must be submitted and any special undertakings required from the contractor before he is regarded as qualified to tender . |
| 11 | 8 Make a final check on the photograph before it is taken to ensure that it will do its job . |
| 12 | Sally sat down hard on them , forcing her legs together , but as usual in the end he won and she retrieved the panties from the floor , pushing them behind her on the seat before they were trampled underfoot . |
| 13 | ‘ Get back to the boat before we 're overrun ! ’ |
| 14 | The natural order has been disturbed and the price must be paid by the parent before it is re-instated . |
| 15 | As to the argument that , in order for the duty to take action to arise , the breach of the peace must be ‘ imminent , ’ the Court cited the opinion of Lord Parker C.J. to the effect that the police must anticipate ‘ a real , not a remote , possibility ’ of a breach of the peace before they are justified in taking preventive action . |
| 16 | This is a far cry from the days when increases in national income were committed by the conference before they were generated and the economy 's commanding heights were deemed to be heavy , smokestack industries . |
| 17 | It may be necessary to restructure the business before it is acquired ; the tax liabilities involved need to be assessed , and the position of management protected as far as possible . |
| 18 | The most dramatic feature about the genes mutated so as to cause muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis , however , is that they were discovered by reverse genetics — neither dystrophin nor cystic fibrosis transmembrane receptor were known to exist in the body before they were discovered by Kunkel and Tsui respectively . |
| 19 | Sam is summoned by a friend in the Police Department to see the body before it is taken away . |
| 20 | His hair was white , as my daughters reported when they went to view the body before it was given to the Odonata . |
| 21 | GULF war veterans have sent a letter of comfort to the family of the Llanrwst boy who became their ‘ mascot ’ during the war before he was killed in a tragic accident . |
| 22 | The Civic Society is to be congratulated for doing a service to Abergavenny by persuading a number of established residents to reminisce in order to capture memories of the town before they are lost for ever . |
| 23 | There must , therefore , have been another meaning of the parable before it was developed into an allegory . |
| 24 | A potentially confusing indefinite referring expression , a man armed with a bayonet , apparently relates back to the period before he was identified as ‘ a dissident Spanish priest ’ . |
| 25 | The villagers had laid Father Reynard out on the table and an old woman , tears streaming down her face , was gently bathing the corpse before it was sheeted for burial . |
| 26 | ‘ The night before we were arrested , I had been to dinner with Nick Wells , and I asked him if he had heard anything , and he said : ‘ No , it 's all water under the bridge , I suppose . ’ |
| 27 | He had been elected last month to the Spanish Parliament and was murdered the night before he was to take his seat . |
| 28 | ‘ I would never have believed that a landlord — any landlord — would refuse a man a drink the night before he was wed . ’ |
| 29 | But I was told about it the night before I was released ! |
| 30 | A compromise proposed by the state would force the farmers to carve artificial marshlands from their fields to serve as natural filters , cleansing the water before it is sent southward . |