Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] before it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carried to their logical conclusion his theories meant that ( if he were right ) the attaque à outrance could be broken by a well-organised defence long before it reached the enemy . |
| 2 | After an hour he came to a small roadside inn that stood on the crest of a shallow hill and , twisting in his saddle , he saw that the inn gave him a good view of the road right to the horizon so that he would see any French pursuit long before it represented any danger . |
| 3 | In practice the rockpooler should ensure his arrival about four hours after high spring water , to give him approximately two hours twelve and one half minutes to follow the ebbing tide out before it turns . |
| 4 | Champagne ages perfectly in the producers ' cellars with a cheap crown cork , and only sprouts its traditional mushroom just before it goes on sale . |
| 5 | The Dakar fiasco came close to ending de Gaulle 's political career almost before it had begun . |
| 6 | There is even a suggestion of official encouragement to depositors to use the Manx bank shortly before it went bust . |
| 7 | At 1989 prices , this would turn the first British PWR into a £2 billion project even before it had generated a single kilowatt of electricity . |
| 8 | The region where women ca n't vote in the local elections , and seats on the council depend on how a show of hands looks to the official in charge , is also the region where men were wearing a ring in the right ear long before it became a youth fashion elsewhere . |
| 9 | The Beeb can reasonably ask the government to recognise these latent contradictions , and to get its ideological act together before it unveils ( in a paper scheduled for the summer ) its own proposals for the corporation 's future . |
| 10 | This experimental law has caused the biggest outcry even before it has been played . |
| 11 | But perhaps it would be better to tackle this huge problem now before it went any further . |