Example sentences of "[adj] before [pers pn] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shares , which were up 1 to 27p in London yesterday , are still speculative at this stage and it is likely to be 1993 before they are supported by anything other than hope value . |
| 2 | " The roof did not actually leak very much before it was taken in hand to be repaired : but is now reported to be in need of more repairs . " |
| 3 | The tide would carry them inland at least two miles and possibly three before they were beached on the first low ridge that had been the coastline a million years before the birth of Christ . |
| 4 | had been a student here back in the seventies before he was expelled for getting drunk . |
| 5 | Control was lost in four of them in 1977 but the Labour Party regained its monopoly of these strategic authorities in 1981 before they were abolished in 1986 . |
| 6 | There were seven levels of spirituality , Hawk had told her , and she must ascend through them all before she was readied for her appointed task . |
| 7 | Waugh struck seven fours in his 77-ball knock of 41 before he was caught in the gully by Andrew Jones off Willie Watson . |
| 8 | The work is most fascinating , the the records they hold are quite er large and erm , I 'm pleased to say that on their request , the Conservative group have have given the records of our group meetings since nineteen sixty to nineteen eighty-six to the , erm , record office , and before anyone rushes over , there is a , a , a slight before they 're released to the public . |
| 9 | Because of some delay or other — line workings , Fabia rather thought — her train was late pulling into Mariánské Láznë , and it had gone twelve-thirty before she was ensconced in a taxi and on her way to the hotel which she had left — was it only three days ago ? |
| 10 | Goldstar 's new wafer fabrication facility being developed in South Korea will probably cost more than $2 billion before it is opened in 1996 and is dependent on generous government support ( Hayashi , 1989 ) . |
| 11 | Even if it is supposed to be pre-washed , a thorough clean is essential before it is placed in the tank . |
| 12 | The most visible and vocal theorists have high energy and intelligence ; they also seem to find imaginative writing rather boring before it is processed into theory . |
| 13 | Rather like the three-headed CERBERUS who guarded HADES , the Devourer attended MAAT , the Egyptian goddess of Truth , who assessed the dead before they were admitted to the afterlife . |