Example sentences of "[conj] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or before you went to them again . ’ |
| 2 | Watering daily in the evening or before you go to work will pay dividends and keep the plants looking their best . |
| 3 | Appendix 4 to the 17th Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Community states that ‘ Parliament does not require to be consulted before or during negotiations on a treaty or before a text is initialled ’ . |
| 4 | If an aid is granted without informing the Commission or before the Commission has had sufficient time to examine the aid , the Court has recently held that the Commission has power to take interim measures ordering the member states concerned to suspend the aid and provide the Commission with all relevant information . |
| 5 | Oxygen , too , began to increase faster than new ‘ sinks ’ could neutralize it , or before it could be buried in sediments . |
| 6 | You 've begun something with this Estabrook business , for instance , and I 'll need to watch it closely , or before we know it there 'll be ripples , spreading through the Imajica . ’ |
| 7 | In a letter to Suger , Robert of Montfalcon declared that a case over whether or not a certain man was his serf should be tried either in the royal court or before the archbishop of Bourges , provided that the proceedings were in accordance with the customs of Bourges ; for him , the consuetudines of his native town had assumed the status of a law binding on outside authorities . |
| 8 | Many physicians prescribe beta blockers to as many patients as will tolerate it before they leave the CCU or before they go home . |
| 9 | They can be moved when the tank is cleared , or before too much defoliation occurs . |
| 10 | We had to get on to the barge before these two characters unwittingly alerted the army sentries across the road , or before the Friends of the Tourists turned up looking for us . |
| 11 | ( b ) An executor or administrator for trespasses committed to goods of the deceased after his death but before probate is granted to the executor or before the administrator takes out letters of administration . |
| 12 | Most of these practices have practitioners trained overseas or before the vocational training scheme became mandatory . |
| 13 | Typically there is a long latent period between radiation exposure and detection of a tumour , which is because of the time required for sufficient increase in the size of the tumour to make it detectable , and may also be due in part to a form of induction period before the initially affected cell or cells start to divide and form a tumour , or before the tumour assumes ‘ malignant ’ characteristics of growth and spreading . |
| 14 | Would they change on the way , or before her body began to rise ? |
| 15 | They would not expect the taking of Perth and Scone to be easy , and night would fall long before they could send back to clear out Abernethy and Forteviot , or before they could press on the further twelve miles to Dunkeld . |
| 16 | A revocation or modification order is made when the development has not been undertaken ( or before a change of use has taken place ) . |
| 17 | At or before the first directions appointment or hearing , whichever occurs first , the applicant must file at court a statement on Form CHA 72 confirming that a copy of the application has been served on each respondent ( FPCR , r4(7) ; FPR , r4.4(7) ) . |
| 18 | ( 14 ) Section 104 of CA 1985 requires certain conditions to be met ( including an independent valuation and approval by an ordinary resolution of the company ) before a public company ( formed as such ) can ( within two years of its being issued with a certificate entitling it to do business under CA 1985 , s117 ) enter into an agreement to acquire a non-cash asset ( eg shares in the target ) from a subscriber to its memorandum of association which is equal in value to one-tenth or more of the company 's nominal share capital issued at the time or before a company is re-registered as a public company can ( within two years of the date of re-registration ) enter into such an agreement with a person who was a member on the date of re-registration . |
| 19 | However , where a charge is delivered together with an application to register a transfer involving monetary consideration or before the application is completed , Sched 4 , Abatement 1 , provides that no fee is payable for the registration of the charge . |
| 20 | However , simulation finds wider application nowadays in the many situations where it is necessary to model the behaviour of some process before its introduction or before a change is made . |
| 21 | The forms need to show the maximum possible numbers to include everyone on role at any time between January and December — please return them at or before the Reunion , but let us know verbally as soon as possible of any major changes — the office likes to give up to date information to enquirers . |
| 22 | Had you phoned well I did n't know if you 'd phoned after I 'd rung you , or before I 'd rung you . |
| 23 | The time they shared became special now , where before they had been free and easy . |
| 24 | From the castle , armed Jews and Christians now faced Muslim militias to the west where before Muslim gunmen in the keep had faced Christians and Jews to the east and south . |
| 25 | It has been completely eradicated from Greece since 1973 , where before the Second World War it caused an estimated one to two million cases annually . |
| 26 | He had to drive now , where before he had merely steered . |
| 27 | To cut a long story short , Agassi won , I skimmed my fingers raw by smoothing off mortar without gloves , but by six that evening — there was a definitely a pond where before there had been none … well , not for some years , anyway . |
| 28 | Where before he went off at obtuse tangents , now he takes the songs where he wants them to go rather than let them control him . |
| 29 | Where before Oulton teased her interpreters with titles such as ‘ Lachrimae ’ and ‘ Vanitas ’ , her new paintings have sterner names such as ‘ Transparence No 7 ’ . |
| 30 | But the finished result has a unity and wholeness ; there is cloth , for instance , where before there were only single silk threads ; you can see how a pattern has emerged in the myriad tufts of wool , or a basket from unyielding spikes of cane . |