Example sentences of "before they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Little Sisters of Pity are saints compared to the rest of us , but they need confession before they partake of Mass and both functions need a priest . |
| 2 | It has even led in extreme cases to a few excavators being so certain of what they would find before they put a spade into the ground , that evidence was selected and rejected in accordance with their predetermined thinking . |
| 3 | ‘ I always know when I visit Conservative houses because they wash their milk bottles before they put them out , ’ was one howler which contributed to her being booed off the stage when she addressed students at the London School of Economics . |
| 4 | And if they died , we us I helping my moni my Mother many at time , to wash them down , before they put them in the coffins . |
| 5 | It does n't mean to say they do n't like participating , but they 'd like to you know see what the group view is before they put in their own views so they 're analyzing , thinking . |
| 6 | Les was happy to show how it should be done … as for the students , they 've a lot of practicing ahead before they put on a circus show for a local school in a couple of weeks time . |
| 7 | What was here before they put these up Carl ? |
| 8 | Well , before they put that token in it , then my bills used to come in about fifty , sixty pound . |
| 9 | and in my opinion they should of clad the plywood with plasterboard before they put the tiles on |
| 10 | They do not proceed to ask what is your religion before they serve . |
| 11 | I 'm sure the gladiators will enjoy a spot of tiddlywinks with Uncle Nero before they die — but mind you do n't end up on the funeral pyre yourself going leap-frogging over the mourners like that . |
| 12 | This feeling owes a lot to all the novels and films and to actual practice with condemned men being ‘ granted their last wish before they die ’ , but it is also a strong expression of trying to anticipate impending loss . |
| 13 | Measurements of body damage ; for example , if you find that keeping chickens in a particular way results in a large number having broken bones before they die , that is important in assessing the effect of that condition on the welfare of the animal . |
| 14 | lives before they die . |
| 15 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 16 | However , they may not be a reliable guide to the distribution of wealth among the living : for instance individuals may transfer some of their wealth to other family members before they die ; moreover those who die tend to be older than other members of the population , and wealth is not equally distributed between age groups . |
| 17 | It is only a matter or time before they die … and there are few new sapling in these machine-cut hedges to replace them , even if farmers wanted them . |
| 18 | Seeing as the best thing about Levitation is the way they challenge his previous band 's liabilities , it 's a shame Tel 's still trying to master his own voice , but there 's still time before they release their debut single . |
| 19 | ‘ I think we 'll have to wait until they notify the next of kin before they release that information . ’ |
| 20 | Notice is set to go up in the local regsistrar 's office on Thursday , just 48 hours before they walk down the aisle . |
| 21 | If something bugs them , I want them to tell me before they walk on court . ’ |
| 22 | Treating heart attack victims with clot-busting drugs before they reach hospital can reduce deaths by up to 17 per cent , Dr Philip Hannaford , of the Royal College of General Practitioners ' Manchester research unit , told a meeting in Dallas , Texas , yesterday . |
| 23 | Somehow I must get up the Library steps , for if I can get in there before they reach me , they wo n't be able to duff me in . |
| 24 | But by far the majority perish , before they are even hatched — or at least before they reach maturity and breed themselves . |
| 25 | If present trends continue , it is estimated that around 1 in 4 children will experience the divorce of their parents before they reach 16 ( Haskey , 1990 ) . |
| 26 | In order for the information in the artefacts to become directly usable , we must then organise our affairs so that the artefacts are transformed before they reach the executive decision maker 's desk . |
| 27 | There is an increasing need to predict the environmental hazards of chemicals before they reach the marketplace , and this demands methods to support the often limited experimental data . |
| 28 | It is even more difficult to find the boundary in front of the wicket since ‘ the sweepers ’ are out on the mid-wicket and cover boundaries , cutting off the strokes which penetrate the inner ring of fieldsmen before they reach the ropes . |
| 29 | At least half of these are likely to die before they reach a year old . |
| 30 | The shark then chases all the children and has to try and touch them before they reach the safety of the side of the pool . |