Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | All you really know about general , about the general election is that it 's got ta be held before the end of parliament 's statutory life of five years . |
| 2 | I longed to be off , I wanted to be gone before anything could prevent it . |
| 3 | She wanted to be gone before the police arrived and Ayling did not press her with convincing enthusiasm . |
| 4 | They seek to restrict town-based owners to one dog per household and legislate for all puppies to be neutered before being sold . |
| 5 | Usually they take about three weeks to make but a further nine months can elapse before brass-polishing is completed especially if they are to be exhibited before use . |
| 6 | An alternative hypothesis , which has considerable intuitive plausibility , needs to be refuted before this assumption can be justified . |
| 7 | ‘ Some people just can not bear to come in second , ’ he said loudly enough to be heard before getting into the car , reversing it round and driving away . |
| 8 | If the protest , to be heard before today 's 25-mile inshore race , goes against Cyclone it will put Britain in the lead . |
| 9 | The trial is expected to be heard before another jury in the near future . |
| 10 | a doleful … sound heard before the deaths of may and most likely to be heard before foul weather . |
| 11 | Natural Justice — Opportunity to meet charge — Right to be heard — Company carrying on investment business as appointed representative of insurers — Lautro as self-regulating organisation investigating company 's affairs — Lautro issuing notice prohibiting acceptance by insurers of business from company until investigation completed — Whether company having right to be heard before issue of notice — Financial Services Act 1986 ( c. 60 ) , ss. 8 , 44(2) |
| 12 | That next step is as to whether natural justice makes any requirement that Winchester had a right to be heard before the decision on 30 October was made . |
| 13 | Their Lordships held that a chief constable who was dismissable only for cause was entitled to notice of the charge and an opportunity to be heard before being dismissed . |
| 14 | Among the parties to be registered before the June elections were Hezbollah , the Algerian Party for the Maghreb Rebirth , and the Arab and Islamic Union . |
| 15 | In a direct boiler system , the copper hot water cylinder ( or , in older installations , galvanised hot water tank ) is supplied with water from the cold water storage cistern ; the water then passes down to a heating boiler , back boiler ( behind a fire ) or gas circulator to be heated before returning to the hot water cylinder . |
| 16 | Sometimes the start of a track has to be sensed before processing of the data stored on it can begin . |
| 17 | A germ found in Farmoor Reservoir near Oxford has resulted in dozens of cases of stomach pains and diarrhoea and led to an order for all drinking water to be boiled before use . |
| 18 | For the simple reason that , if they were to be considered as arbitrators , there would be at least a danger that one party or the other might be able to require a case to be stated before a court of law , by which means it could be suggested that the award was not binding because of some error in it . |
| 19 | the general power to appoint a special examiner may be exercised only ‘ if the government of [ the relevant ] country allows a person in that country to be examined before a person appointed by the Court ’ ; |
| 20 | Hoping as always to avoid trouble , the Goldsmiths decided to require the new Schoolmaster to be examined before being appointed ; this was duly done , and Joseph Whittle , a graduate of Brasenose College , Oxford , took up his position with effect from 28th September . |
| 21 | Any witness whose attendance in court ought for some sufficient cause to be dispensed with may be ordered ( N 21 ) by the judge or district judge to be examined before an examiner in England or Wales ( Ord 20 , r 13 ) . |
| 22 | She says that between three and four thousand people in the country have so far registered complaints about the drug with their solicitors — they will have to be examined before any action is taken to get expert advice on how probable it is that their problem was caused by the Myodil injections . |
| 23 | For the Scarlet Woman he had Pamela Chrimes , who went to London soon afterwards and was a dancer good enough to be engaged before long as a soloist in the new Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet . |
| 24 | The ‘ Act ’ allows pregnancy to be terminated before the 28th week and has helped many women avoid inevitable problems . |
| 25 | The defendant , it seems to their Lordships , would in those circumstances have to be rearraigned before another court and if he again pleaded not guilty would have to be retried . |
| 26 | Leslie Phillips remembers him , sitting on the canvas chair bearing his name , waiting to be called before the cameras . |
| 27 | Deputies called for Ukraine 's constitution to be decided before uniting with other republics . |
| 28 | It was also likely that all incoming correspondence would have to be recorded before circulation in order to maintain system integrity , which would be difficult to control as some correspondence was passed directly to branch officers without being opened in the Registry . |
| 29 | This china lived in the sideboard in the dining-room and only came into the kitchen to be warmed before a meal and washed up afterwards . |
| 30 | Having consulted with the user clubs , it was decided to draw up plans for submission to the planning authority , although further discussions with all concerned would need to be undertaken before giving the final go-ahead . |