Example sentences of "[noun prp] before [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She held posts in Northumberland and Dundee before being appointed as the first educational psychologist in Dumbarton . |
| 2 | The finished period frames will be tested in Stafford before being put together in Japan … |
| 3 | He had been interrogated at the Comando di Legione in Parma before being locked up in the Citadella to await removal to Germany . |
| 4 | Liz Boatman , who played professionally in the States before being reinstated as an amateur , captains the side for a second time and is delighted at the way the growth of the pro circuit has revitalised the amateur game . |
| 5 | If Spot , who won more than £1,500 for owner John Adams before being struck down by cancer , can resume his winning ways , it 'll be a bonus for his connections , who had to find more than £250 for his two operations . |
| 6 | A silver-gilt sweet-meat dish made in Hamburg in 1610 and originally owned by Christian IV of Denmark before being given to the Tsar should realise SF300–450,000 ( £115–175,000 ; $200–300,000 ) . |
| 7 | Odinga , aged 80 , was reported to have been interrogated by police in Nairobi before being driven back to his home near Kisumu 400 km away . |
| 8 | ‘ The Red Terror ’ , as Phar Lap was to become known , was a freak of breeding : his sire Night Raid failed to win at all in England before being sent to Australia and his dam Entreaty was unplaced on her only start . |
| 9 | With six thousand Cornishmen he crossed the Tamar and breached the walls of Exeter before being repulsed . |
| 10 | Lord Cullen heard an allegation that while chairman of Falkirk before being removed from the post last May , Hamish Deans had behaved in an overbearing and dictatorial manner . |
| 11 | Cooke then spent a year at a commercial school at Neatishead before being apprenticed for five years to a wholesale draper in Norwich . |
| 12 | They collected tons of blankets and food , stockpiled in Worcester before being flown to Iraq . |
| 13 | Working in Ulster Bank , Ennis , John joined the Bank at O'Connell Street , Dublin in 1979 and , since then , worked in Lucan before being transferred to Ennis . |
| 14 | Each clone must have been grown for at least 18 months at Kew before being distributed ; during this period , the plants are regularly inspected for disease and insects . |
| 15 | He was first spoken to by the police in November before being charged with attempted murder on February 28 . |
| 16 | Contraband brandy landed around Portwrinkle could be hidden awhile in Sheviock Woods before being ferried across the Lynher to Erth and on to Saltash . |
| 17 | The truck was stolen from Mr Gresty 's business in Richmond before being dumped . |
| 18 | Further evidence of Starfield 's commitment to quality is provided by the fact that every guitar which comes into the country is checked over by repairer Martyn Booth before being dispatched to the shops . |
| 19 | Peace with Russia enabled the German forces to concentrate on the western front before the troops arriving from the United States of America could be fully deployed , so in the spring of 1918 , a massive Germany attack was launched and their troops came within fifty miles of Paris before being halted . |
| 20 | It will be tested on TVS before being rolled out across other regions , and success is being monitored on a cost-per-response basis through an 0800 number . |
| 21 | Once in the USSR , Burgess and Maclean spent six months in the provincial town of Kuybyshev before being allowed to settle in Moscow . |
| 22 | The former ferry steward , who rose through the National Union of Seaman before being elected MP for Hull , wears every thought and feeling on his sleeve . |
| 23 | A group of armed rebels seized control of the national radio headquarters in Antananarivo , the capital , early on May 13 and managed to broadcast a statement announcing the overthrow of President Didier Ratsiraka before being overpowered by the security forces . |
| 24 | A noted soldier and astronomer , he served in the army under the Duke of Wellington before being appointed Governor of New South Wales . |
| 25 | Paul Shipton is doing the initial writing , and his manuscript will be looked over by Tom Hutchinson before being finalized . |
| 26 | Physically , it is a shrink-wrapped package about the size of a music CD package that the user buys off the shelf , and it was pioneered here in the UK , in France and Australia before being introduced in the US . |
| 27 | James and Pauline MacGregor of Mulbarton , Norfolk , had to drive 180 miles from Auxerre to Lyon before being freed unharmed . |
| 28 | Dogged police work by the Lockerbie investigation team , allied with the forensic skill of the Royal Armaments Research and Development Establishment at Fort Halstead , Kent , established that the bomb had most likely been loaded in a suitcase at Malta before being transferred to PanAm 103 at Frankfurt . |
| 29 | The detectives are concentrating on the theory that the bomb was loaded at Malta before being transferred to PanAm 103 at Frankfurt . |
| 30 | Joey Kelly has become something of a racing machine for he was only beaten a short head at Enniskillen last Saturday , then won at Dromore on Wednesday before being turned out again yesterday . |