Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] before they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes they learn , they learn to read lower case before they read capitals . |
| 2 | Yeah , and there 's another couple of guys and they were saying that how strict the training was when they first took it on you know that the their masters used to beat them and everything , into submission , s said they had to have complete submission before they could train them to be what they were , you know , bring them up , teach them and train them |
| 3 | The decision to hold the elections eight months before they were constitutionally due increased speculation that the aged President was preparing to transfer power to his son . |
| 4 | Besides , the magazine reported that almost unbelievably , the government had stopped advance copies of scientific annual reports being issued to weekly journals because London 's evening newspaper , The Standard , had printed ( heinous ! dastardly ! ) details of awards to Falkland troops as much as 12 hours before they were officially released . |
| 5 | For example , patients waiting in an out-patient department knowing that it will be 30 minutes before they are seen may be happier than those who wait half as long , not knowing how long the wait will be . |
| 6 | And if the stranger has pleased the local cattle they will show their gratitude by plastering the sides of the vehicle with a generous dolloping of fresh dung before they depart . |
| 7 | The pigs the mariners left on the islands probably looked at lot like the ancestral wild boars , and certainly when pink pigs go wild , it 's only a few generations before they 're muscular , nimble and fierce again . |
| 8 | When domestic pigs go feral , it 's only a few generations before they start to look like the ancestral Eurasian wild boar . |
| 9 | Every jumper goes through rigorous checks before they take the plunge , including a weigh-in to make sure they have the correct elastic rope for their size . |
| 10 | It was another hour before they were called back . |
| 11 | She had been noting various titles during Joyce 's discourse ; there was a new book about bats that Edward would want , and one or two things she would like to get hold of herself — the sole perquisite of this trade was a surreptitious early pick of incoming titles before they went on the shelves . |
| 12 | All these points were approved for printing some months before they became official policy . |
| 13 | Good stakes can last a long time , but it does help if they are cut some months before they are used , and well seasoned . |
| 14 | So when he turned to her casually in the car , and suggested that they call in at his house for some tea before they parted , Folly found herself leaping on the suggestion with almost indecent haste . |
| 15 | Would the er patients be seeing the doctor as well as the midwife during this few months before they were going |
| 16 | The last time I saw him was at Walton Studios a few months before they closed down and the was he was doing he said he was unable to get a film to direct , so he was going to be Herbert Wilcox first assistant director on his forthcoming production . |
| 17 | Mossop could not remember the address and it required several false starts and wrong turnings before they located the right house , one grey-dashed end-of-terrace dwelling among the featureless many that spread like silt round the fenced-off acres of pipelines and flares . |
| 18 | Drugs are subjected to rigorous testing before they can be marketed , and the same should be a statutory requirement for implants . |
| 19 | The remaining 30% leave clerical work before they are 30 . |
| 20 | The signal contents of these responses need careful reconsideration before they can be related to VOR adaptation . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 23 | It was some years before they were replaced and the legend on the present bridge at the airport tells the story ; Built 1885 . |
| 24 | and erm you 're looking , you 're , let's say you turn up looking at a screen , you 're actually standing up like they used to do in the old days before they had radar |
| 25 | The dragonfly nymphs may take up to 2 years before they moult into the adult form . |
| 26 | He showed the notarised notebooks of April 1986 demonstrating the range of materials , including not just palladium but several other metals , that was being used two and a half years before they learned of the work by Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 27 | Chief Black Moon and a thousand braves attacked the station at Huntly , Montana , only a few years before they were appearing in a more peaceable guise there . |
| 28 | Most continue ripening in store until ready for the table , but a few varieties must be brought into the warm for a few days before they are ready to eat . |
| 29 | They were usually listless for a few days before they collapsed , breathing with evident difficulty and , in a few cases , discharging a white frothy liquid from their nostrils . |
| 30 | Babies put on a lot of fat in the last few weeks before they are born , so looked a poor little skinny scrap of a thing . |