Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] before [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The draft proposals were to be discussed with the trade unions and opposition parties before being submitted to the People 's Assembly . |
| 2 | From puberty onwards , the testes of the human male ( and those of other mammals ) produce millions of sperm a day , each of which undergoes many cell divisions before being ejaculated . |
| 3 | All members will have met stringent capital adequacy requirements before being accepted . |
| 4 | THREE young canoeists are lucky to be alive this morning after they were plucked to safety minutes before being swept to sea . |
| 5 | Sandinista leaders , headed by Ortega , did not participate in the discussions , but nevertheless welcomed the agreement , which also called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire and the grouping of the estimated 3,000 contras inside Nicaragua in UN-supervised security zones before being disarmed . |
| 6 | Each garland has a steel framework which is wrapped with silk stockings before being lined , inside and out , with hessian . |
| 7 | A third draft of the document is now being produced and this will go through the Institute 's approval procedures before being put forward for ratification by National Council in October . |
| 8 | We have the personal testimony of the South African Oxfam partner detained and tortured by security forces before being forced into exile ; the telex messages from Oxfam 's Mozambique office saying that South African-backed rebels have just burst into a hospital full of women and children and massacred over 400 ; and the telex that tells the dreary tale of Oxfam emergency relief trucks blown up by the agents of apartheid . |
| 9 | Locals , however , say this is a euphemism for innocent people being apprehended and tortured by the security forces before being shot . |
| 10 | The following year he developed into one of the best European middle-distance horses of the 1980s , winning the Brigadier Gerard Stakes , the Benson and Hedges Gold Cup and the Phoenix Champion Stakes before being comprehensively beaten by Pebbles in the Champion Stakes . |
| 11 | Detainees have often been held for weeks or months without access to defence lawyers before being brought to trial on charges such as rebellion , illegal association and ‘ enemy propaganda ’ ( a charge brought against those accused of producing , distributing or possessing any information regarded as subversive by the authorities ) . |
| 12 | He was imprisoned three times for his activities , serving 12 years of a 15-year sentence on terrorism charges before being released in November 1988 on health grounds [ see p. 36913 ] ; he was elected PAC president in 1986 while a prisoner [ see p. 35365 ] . |
| 13 | Darlington-born Wealands joined his home-town club from Wolves in July 1970 and made 28 League appearances before being transferred to Hull in march 1972 . |
| 14 | Although I interviewed the two most senior managers in the store , they both operated as line managers before being promoted , and take over-all charge of the shop floor on particular days . |
| 15 | In the case of the tokens these are converted into strings of ASCII letters before being listed . |
| 16 | The new coatings will be adopted in a phased programme for Dornier 's 328 commuter aircraft , beginning with small airframe parts before being extended to fuselage and wings . |