Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] before be [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 As will be shown below , there is some reason , though not perhaps positive evidence , for supposing that his appointment to the Muftilik occurred relatively late in his life ; and there seems also to be good reason to suppose that his appointment to the muderrislik of the Manastir medrese occurred before his appointment to the kadilik since it was usual even in the early days of the Ottoman state for a man to have done some teaching before being appointed to as important a kadilik as that of the capital city .
2 The labelled cells were washed once with cell free plasma before being transferred to a heparinised plastic syringe for reinjection .
3 A new draft constitution was published on Dec. 30 for public comment before being submitted to the National Assembly for approval in March 1992 .
4 Also , the fresh tap water should be allowed to stand for some time before being offered to the cat , to allow the chemicals to dissipate .
5 They got us off and the bus disappeared , but there was still a reason why we could not board — they never let on what it was — — and we stood on the tarmac for a long time before being herded to the back entrance .
6 Thus the risks of a particular strategy can be evaluated in a relatively safe manner before being put to the test in a real life context .
7 However he remained with the Wellington unit only for a short time before being posted to Control Office duties at Luqa .
8 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 .
9 Indeed , as the locomotive will have to be restored to its current green livery before being returned to the National Railway Museum the prospects for a change are not high .
10 In 1856 French secretaries of embassy and legation were divided into three classes and it was ordered that no one was to reach the third and lowest class without having already served as an attaché for three years , while everyone must spend at least three more in each class before being promoted to a higher one .
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