Example sentences of "[noun sg] before [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | R Coronæ Borealis stars remain at maximum for most of the time , but suffer sudden , unpredictable drops to minimum , apparently because carbon particles — in other words , soot — accumulate in their atmospheres , and dim the light before being blown away . |
| 2 | First he came across the reserve trenches a few hundred yards in front of the hospital tents , known as the ‘ hotel area ’ as they were a quarter of a mile behind the front line , where each soldier spent four days without a break before being allowed four days of rest in the reserve trenches . |
| 3 | those necessarily coming into effect before being laid ( e.g. , where publicity would nullify their effect ) if due notice of the fact and the reasons for it has not been given to the Speaker , ; |
| 4 | The dogs , mostly mongrels , undergo a four-month training programme before being placed with a deaf person . |
| 5 | Bennett , 47 , described as an " abrasive " conservative , had served as Education Secretary within the Reagan administration before being chosen by Bush to become the country 's first " drugs tsar " , a post which did not carry full Cabinet rank . |
| 6 | Some 70 pharmaceutical grade trace elements and the basic compound are melted together to ensure a complete mix before being solidified and ground down into the basic salt . |
| 7 | In fact , the two separate incidents concerned a 3-year-old girl who was enticed into woods near her home and sexually assaulted and then soon afterwards , a 3-year-old boy who was abducted from a play area and driven off at high speed before being dumped a mile and a half away forty minutes later . |
| 8 | That Ronchey 's move has been made now is due not only to the changed political climate , but also to the fact that the Minister is not a career politician like his recent , ineffective predecessors , but an independent , educated man ( he was a distinguished political journalist before being invited to join the government ) , who instead of getting tied up in his Ministry 's bureaucratic shibboleths , has collected an enlightened group of advisors around him , including the independent scholar Federico Zeri , who enjoys star status in Italy , and Mirella Baracco , the energetic founder of the private ginger group , Napoli 99 , which is managing to get long-closed monuments and churches in that city open to the public . |
| 9 | After serving in the US Army in Vietnam in 1969-71 , Gore worked as a journalist before being elected to the House of Representatives in 1976 and to the Senate in 1984 and 1990 . |
| 10 | He attended Liverpool College before being apprenticed to the well-known Manchester engineering firm of Joseph Whitworth & Company . |
| 11 | A lawyer and former oilfield worker , he was head of government for nine years in the 1950s and 1960s under British colonial rule before being beaten at the polls by a charismatic rival , Mr Eric Gairy . |
| 12 | What seems barbarous is admirably suited to the rain-forest environment , for the scattering of the groups , their rigorous population control and their constant movement mean that the forest is nowhere completely depleted and recovers through cycles of regeneration before being farmed once more . |
| 13 | He is expected to arrive in Glasgow by air ambulance before being driven to Hartlepool General Hospital . |
| 14 | When Paisley man Christy Welsh was released by the Americans from the hands of the Nazis in Brunau , May 4th 1945 , the last thing on his mind was a return visit to the little Greek island of Leros , where he had spent five days desperate fighting before being taken prisoner . |
| 15 | After some brief editing , Reference vinyl master discs are made on the company 's own lathe before being sent to one of the few remaining specialist pressing plants in the US . |
| 16 | Steele escaped only weeks ago from Edinburgh prison and turned up in London where he glued himself to the railings at Buckingham Palace to protest his innocence before being re-arrested. escape , Steele telephoned the Daily Record newspaper . |
| 17 | I was brought up in liberal Anglicanism and lapsed into unbelief and active opposition before being converted in an evangelical Anglican church at the age of twenty-four . |
| 18 | Here minute droplets are charged to very high voltage before being ejected . |
| 19 | But by the time I had reached middle age , the Ordnance Survey had switched the names after an inconclusive local census , and for a few years the eastern stream appeared on their maps as the River Doe before being changed again — this time to the River Greta , having no doubt decided that the eastern stream was the principal of the two and really the source of the parent river . |
| 20 | They spent the rest of the morning checking over their equipment before being herded up a gangplank and on to the waiting troop carrier . |
| 21 | He had married Audrey , and had been sent off to the Aleutian Islands for an anti-Jap campaign before being demobbed . |
| 22 | Water is gravity-fed into two 50 gallon drums , passing through layers of Canterbury spar via a spray bar before being pumped along a down-pipe back into the main tank . |
| 23 | Salsabil , a 13-2 shot , took command of the Prix Marcel Boussac a furlong from home before being driven clear by Wille Carson . |
| 24 | New tenants , particularly from non-conforming households such as single parents , tend to be given the poorer standard housing and are expected to prove their ability to look after and improve their home before being transferred to a better property . |
| 25 | His new bride , a spinster in her thirties called Elizabeth Shaw , would bring him one further child before being left a widow . |
| 26 | Northern Ireland minister Michael Mates was also a regular before being sent to Ulster . |
| 27 | Having been printed on fibre-based paper , the images were masked out , hand-coloured and sulphide-toned before being cut out and mounted onto plywood . |
| 28 | ( A similar finding emerged in the Dooling and Lachman ( 1971 ) experiment discussed earlier where more words closely related to the theme of the passage were incorrectly recalled when subjects were told the title of the passage before being presented with it . ) |
| 29 | In 1973 he again tried his hand at Cheltenham and ran third in the Champion Chase before being directed to Liverpool for the Grand National . |
| 30 | Parliament should give fresh thought to enacting a provision placing an obligation upon a council tenant to give notice to the council before being permitted to commence proceedings . |