Example sentences of "before [pers pn] can 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 | You have to establish your bona fides before you can be listened to . " |
| 3 | This examination must be passed before they can be accepted for the remainder of the course . |
| 4 | They still require experimental evidence before they can be accepted as fact . |
| 5 | The signal contents of these responses need careful reconsideration before they can be related to VOR adaptation . |
| 6 | Thus , any shares offered for sale must first be offered to other shareholders before they can be transferred to a third party . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some eurobonds have a lock-up period of 90 days before they can be sold through the secondary markets to domestic investors . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | what must happen before they can be complied with ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ’ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This is familiar language , and Eleanor Gordon and others have argued that much more investigation of the circumstances of setting up women 's unions is needed before it can be accepted at face value , Material obstacles made union membership difficult for women : their low pay made it hard to pay dues , while their domestic duties as daughters and sisters , not to mention the question of staying out late , made it hard to attend meetings . |
| 20 | It 's grown on huge farms called plantations , and it has to be planted , as the name suggests , cultivated and harvested , before it can be packed into great ships and sent to us . |
| 21 | The disadvantage of the Helblaster is that it is impossible to reload on the battlefield — each barrel has to be removed and fitted with a new charge before it can be replaced on the gun . |
| 22 | Town water , although potable , is often unsuitable for textile processes such as package-dyeing because it contains suspended matter and soluble calcium and magnesium salts ; filtration and softening may be necessary before it can be employed with confidence in a process in which impurities can filter out upon yarn or fabric . |
| 23 | This is tantamount to saying that before it can be regarded as an adequate replacement for a falsified theory , a newly and boldly proposed theory must make some novel predictions that are confirmed . |
| 24 | Taking the Dornier 's position will be Hudson A16-199 , itself needing the other wings removed before it can be towed from its current position through the Sydney Camm Hall in the centre of the display area , and back down past the Beaufighter and Belvedere , finally being positioned opposite the Stranraer flying-boat . |
| 25 | CLI is currently out in review form at the moment — the group says it has to be fine-tuned before it can be released to members in July . |
| 26 | There is no evidence that zinc metal was ever prepared in Africa — it has to be made by condensation since it volatilises before it can be reduced from the ore . |
| 27 | Apart from the question of the number of dimensions that space-time appears to have , string theory still has several other problems that must be solved before it can be acclaimed as the ultimate unified theory of physics . |
| 28 | The Client must have been created before it can be used at this option . |
| 29 | You see ads for PCs promoting themselves as ‘ network-ready ’ and you wonder just how ready a PC needs to be before it can be used on a LAN . |
| 30 | He will thus avoid buying material before it can be used by accepting a small and defined risk of delaying production . |