Example sentences of "before [pers pn] [vb mod] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the casualty is out of the car , paramedics from the county 's ambulance trust take over , sustaining the patient before she can be driven to hospital . |
| 2 | She died , aged 19 , in 1445 before she could be married to James Douglas , third Earl of Angus . |
| 3 | You have to establish your bona fides before you can be listened to . " |
| 4 | It is unlikely that , given the current level of resources , both financial and human , the Council would be in a position to initiate central development of these courses in the near future , and it would therefore be some time before they would be incorporated into the new style provision . |
| 5 | With only 10 days to finalise the proposals before they must be announced in the Queen 's Speech , Mrs Thatcher 's policy unit , chaired by her senior adviser , Professor Brian Griffiths , is also understood to be considering plans to make sharply increased tuition fees , rather than the block grant , the main means of distributing public money to higher education . |
| 6 | This examination must be passed before they can be accepted for the remainder of the course . |
| 7 | They still require experimental evidence before they can be accepted as fact . |
| 8 | The signal contents of these responses need careful reconsideration before they can be related to VOR adaptation . |
| 9 | Thus , any shares offered for sale must first be offered to other shareholders before they can be transferred to a third party . |
| 10 | So many people visit the countryside and pick wild flowers because they find them pretty , only to have those flowers wilt and die long before they can be arranged in a vase . |
| 11 | The prospect for holding UDC schedules as a thesaurus is promising , but the schedules will need some adjustment before they can be adopted in an operational system . |
| 12 | Some eurobonds have a lock-up period of 90 days before they can be sold through the secondary markets to domestic investors . |
| 13 | The University may consider applications from overseas candidates received after the normal closing date of 15 December , but candidates should make early application through UCAS , so that they can be informed in good time of any further qualifications required before they can be considered for admission . |
| 14 | So jewellers can not get their new stock hallmarked and 800,000 articles are now waiting to be examined before they can be put on sale . |
| 15 | Note that all the files referenced by the FOREIGN module , and the header file itself , must be in the same account and in the same directory before they can be entered into LIFESPAN . |
| 16 | The cartographic data must exist in digital format before they can be used within a GIS ; although the amount of digital map data is growing larger a considerable amount of manual digitizing is needed in practice to provide the database necessary for a successful GIS . |
| 17 | Even facts of observation need interpreting before they can be counted on , and any facts about underlying mechanisms or structures are ‘ visible ’ only through theoretical spectacles . |
| 18 | what must happen before they can be complied with ? |
| 19 | However , more knowledge of the long term effects of these drugs is needed before they can be recommended as a safe alternative to tricyclic antidepressants , which are less expensive , equally effective , and well tolerated . |
| 20 | But they had to be humoured before they could be diverted from the unobtainable to the treasure that was actually for sale . |
| 21 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 22 | Three of the pictures in this issue of BAIE News were taken by Ian Billinghurst on the DCS200 , but a lot of work was needed before they could be transferred from the computer system at the BAIE convention to the system at Hardman Press Services . |
| 23 | Where men like Bradford of Pippingford Warren attempted to enclose the remaining wastes of Ashdown Forest and succeeded , it was a comparatively rare event ; unlike the Midlands enclosure , which frequently redistributed arable land , the sand and clay of Wealden waste required wholesale draining and massive injections of capital before they could be used for profitable corn-growing . |
| 24 | Of course , such potent compounds had still to be assessed in animals , before they could be used in patients . |
| 25 | They are bondagers , women hired by a male farm worker or ‘ hind ’ who has to provide a woman to work with him before he will be hired by a farmer . |
| 26 | ’ Tom , therefore , had to pass through various stages of purification , in which water is the essential element , before he can be reunited in heaven with Ellie , the well-brought-up little girl , into those bedroom in Harthover House he had so unceremoniously descended by way of the chimney . |
| 27 | But the owner 's possession , and with it his actual power to exercise his rights , is for the time being gone ; he must recover the watch — as he may even lawfully do by his own act — before he can be said to be again in possession of it . |
| 28 | As a measure of how leaky was the colander , even in the exercise of maximum security , a Movietone newsreel van and a Daily Express reporter had to be shooed away from Euston next morning before he could be transferred to the Tower of London . |
| 29 | In Ridge v. Baldwin the House of Lords held that a chief constable , who had been acquitted on a criminal charge but criticized for lack of leadership by the judge , was entitled , under the common law rules of natural justice , to a hearing before he could be dismissed by the local authority who employed him . |
| 30 | Security was tighter here than it had been in the Union building , and Reynolds had to be signed in by Diane before he could be issued with a visitor 's pass . |