Example sentences of "before be [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However he remained with the Wellington unit only for a short time before being posted to Control Office duties at Luqa . |
| 2 | THE business dealings of a £40,000-a-year financial consultant , who was lured to a bogus appointment in a wealthy Home Counties village before being battered to death with a claw hammer , were being studied by police yesterday . |
| 3 | There was Irene Munro , who had improved her complexion with Icilma cream before being battered to death for her handbag on a beach . |
| 4 | THREE young canoeists are lucky to be alive this morning after they were plucked to safety minutes before being swept to sea . |
| 5 | MANSUR MUHAMMAD AHMED RAJIH : a 34-year-old writer and poet , he was held without charge or trial for over a year before being sentenced to death in 1984 after an unfair trial on false criminal charges . |
| 6 | The two unsynchronized tapes were then simply mixed together back at base before being transferred to disc . |
| 7 | Her husband , Patrick , also 68 , was treated at the scene by paramedics before being rushed to hospital . |
| 8 | He was then able to sleep for about half an hour before being taken to theatre . |
| 9 | He was treated for shock by an off-duty doctor at the airfield before being taken to hospital , from where he was later discharged . |
| 10 | He was rescucitated by the nurse , before being taken to hospital . |
| 11 | The woman , who has not yet been named but is aged about 50 , was trapped in her car and had to be freed by firemen before being taken to hospital with back and neck injuries . |
| 12 | Jorge Quintana Silva and another student , Carlos Ortega , were arrested on 4 January 1990 and detained for 10 months before being brought to trial . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | A judicial reform passed by parliament on Nov. 19 reduced the period for which suspects could be held in custody before being brought to trial and allowed them access to a lawyer during questioning . |
| 15 | Roderick Newall , who has been held in Gibraltar since being arrested at sea last August , was kept in hospital for three hours ' observation before being returned to prison . |
| 16 | • Other fish are sun-dried before being added to food dishes as a flavouring . |
| 17 | In the arousal condition the same beginning and ending to the sequence was used , but in the middle the boy was hit by a car and shown lying on the car bonnet bleeding heavily before being transported to hospital . |