Example sentences of "day before [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people are taken away hooded and chained and are interrogated for several days before being released . |
| 2 | In hospitals without a psychiatric unit , patients usually had to wait several days before being seen by the psychiatrist , occupying medical beds and often antagonizing the medical staff by their presence . |
| 3 | Clapton was also an isolated spot where the traps were usually left for a couple of days before being checked . |
| 4 | For example , of all the spare-time activities reported by affluent workers and their wives in the few days before being interviewed 62 per cent were in or about the home itself . |
| 5 | GERMINATION Malt whisky is made from malted barley , water and yeast — the barley first steeped for two or three days before being allowed to germinate — either spread out and turned by hand in the time-honoured fashion on the malting floor , or by mechanical methods in modern plants . |
| 6 | Tens of thousands of people filed past her body which lay in state at the Communist Party headquarters in Madrid for three days before being buried in Almudena cemetery on Nov. 16 , next to the grave of Pablo Iglesias , the founder of the PSOE . |
| 7 | An industrialist was kidnapped in Pamplona on Nov. 24 and was held for 84 days before being freed on Feb. 16 [ see p. 37263 ] . |
| 8 | The remaining two seats were in doubt for several days before being awarded to the conservative coalition as a result of the distribution of preferential votes . |
| 9 | A letter from her killer and kidnapper to West Yorkshire Police claimed that after she had been beaten unconscious , then strangled , her body had been kept in a wheelie-bin for two days before being taken to where it was later found Easton , near Grantham , Lincs in July 1991 . |
| 10 | A predator company ( the offerer ) can buy up to 15 per cent of a company 's shares without restrictions , but above that level must then wait seven days before being allowed to buy up to another ten per cent . |