Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] before they be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have never actually used these for help or advice myself , as I was aware of my infection before they were formed and had by then come to terms with it . |
| 2 | She tried to regroup her scattered brain tissue , pulling back pieces of her mind before they were lost for ever . |
| 3 | The subtlety of the wrap-around influence of alien presuppositions is that they do their work before they are noticed . |
| 4 | A criticism of the 1990–91 NHS reforms was the absence of pilot schemes to test their efficiency before they were introduced generally . |
| 5 | Crucial to the operation of the scheme was the CNAA 's recognition that some institutions had established successful ‘ internal validating committees ’ as sub-committees of Academic Boards , ‘ responsible for considering schemes on their behalf before they are submitted to the Council ’ , and others had developed faculty or school machinery to do the same . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , there 's more than one flat for rent in London , is n't there ? ’ their father chipped in to declare , and then , with a fond look at his wife , ‘ And if there is n't , my dear — well , I 'm sure , for such a good cause , we could consider letting Leith and Sebastian have the inheritance from their grandfather before they 're twenty-five . ’ |
| 7 | The besieger had become the besieged , and Matilda had only escaped because of the gallant rearguard action of her half-brother , Robert , Earl of Gloucester , as they fought their way out of their castle before they were starved out . |