Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] before any [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the excavation was in progress , it may have been possible to wash some of the finds and mark each one with a code indicating where it was found : this task has to be completed before any further work can be done . |
| 2 | But much had to be done before any real progress could be made , and essentially this lay in the problem of land acquisition and assembly . |
| 3 | Research of this nature has begun , but there are many problems to be overcome before any direct extrapolation from laboratory to classroom is possible . |
| 4 | Second , it was argued that a range of local services in the catchment areas of the two chosen hospitals would have to be created before any rundown programme was agreed . |
| 5 | Thus , for example , in reference resolution , if the first complete set of resolutions of the anaphors in a QLF is deemed implausible , other possible referents will be tried exhaustively for the last anaphor to be processed before any other changes are considered ; and the second QLF , if any , will not be considered at all unless no plausible set of resolutions can be derived for the first . |
| 6 | The intonation has been left unadjusted , though , and would need to be set before any serious playing could take place . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , other lessons from abroad will need to be learnt before any new disability discrimination law can work . |