Example sentences of "be [adj] before we " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Greenway praised the ‘ distinguished and courageous ’ Falklands campaign and added : ‘ We had better be careful before we defile the names of people who acted with such valour in the name of the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 2 | " We must go , or it 'll be dark before we know it . |
| 3 | ‘ If it works , Dexter , if he survives , this time we have to be sure before we go any further . |
| 4 | And , by the way , Jenkins pulls no punches on the prospects for the Wales side now partly his to command : ‘ Substantial improvement is going to be necessary before we can even consider winning ’ . |
| 5 | you know , I have got to get , I mean we 've got to be ready at four ai n't we , which means we 'll have to be ready before we get there , |
| 6 | Two additional criteria need to be satisfied before we can definitely conclude that expectations are being formed rationally . |
| 7 | ‘ The King will be dead before we can get to him ! ’ |
| 8 | That way they should develop a rounder picture and perhaps some insight into the way simple actions must be patterned before we recognise them as ‘ sensitivity ’ , ‘ passivity ’ or whatever . |
| 9 | But distinguishing why changes take place is problematic before we have the evidence , as in Jonson 's case , of an author wishing to impose authority on to a text . |
| 10 | Not all sites so developed , of course , and much more research is vital before we understand the full nuances of settlement expansion and contraction . |
| 11 | The cement was freezing before we were able to apply it to the bricks . |