Example sentences of "of [noun] before it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The march marked HMS Jupiter 's last visit to its affiliated town of Middlesbrough before it is de-commissioned later this year . |
| 2 | He claimed that their plans to dump the roubles back into the Soviet money supply had been forestalled , a matter of hours before it was due to begin , only by his quick decision to order the immediate withdrawal of the high-denomination rouble notes . |
| 3 | Presumably they 're afraid it will run out of money before it 's their turn . |
| 4 | Weight loss is itself a rewarding consequence , but because you need to lose a fair amount of weight before it is really noticeable in terms of body shape , you will probably require extra rewards to keep you going . |
| 5 | The Dnestr region , however , in the east of Moldava , with a population of 700,000 mainly Russian speakers , which had been a part of Ukraine before it was incorporated into the Moldavan territory annexed by Stalin from Romania in 1940 , declared its wish to remain part of the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | The software needs a lot of work before it 's mature and the current situation puts OSF and DCE vendors in a race to get it to that point before the marketplace grows leery of it . |
| 7 | The behaviour of privatised industries will have to be studied over a number of years before it is possible to conclude whether the ownership of the company ( ie private or public ) or the market structure ( ie competitive or monopolistic ) is the major determinant of corporate behaviour . |
| 8 | Michael Medavoy , the chief executive of Tri-Star Pictures and a Friend of Bill before it was fashionable , is a case in point . |
| 9 | Then someone offered to adopt the cat and the local vet was called in to give the animal a clean bill of health before it was moved to its new , permanent home . |
| 10 | This thought , too , caused him a few moments of depression before it was drowned by feelings of tranquil pleasure . |
| 11 | So it looks as though hpGRF and hypothalamic GRF are the same thing in these species , and it should be only a matter of time before it is from the hypothalamus as well . |
| 12 | And it was easy to believe that the evidence for test-tube fusion was fairly solid , good enough that it would be only a matter of time before it was proven definitively , especially with the BYU people already claiming to have some independent evidence . |
| 13 | It would only be a matter of time before it was discovered but it was the best she could do in such a short time . |
| 14 | If a complete unified theory was discovered , it would only be a matter of time before it was digested and simplified in the same way and taught in schools , at least in outline . |