Example sentences of "of [noun] before they [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outcome is that fox hunts will need a licence from the Ministry of Agriculture before they can temporarily block setts to prevent foxes hiding in them during a hunt , or to dig out foxes which succeed in entering a sett . |
| 2 | The next day Professor Pearn , who was working in intelligence , came in to warn me that the Japs were breaking through from Taung-gyi and that it was only a matter of hours before they would reach Maymyo . |
| 3 | People in these tragic circumstances have to come to terms with their sense of loss before they can come to terms with , and learn to enjoy , living alone . |
| 4 | They spent thousands of years before they could understand fractions |
| 5 | Ideas have to begin somewhere , a point which tends to be overlooked by those who seize on leaked internal government memoranda floating a proposal at a formative stage of the idea and criticize both the content of the proposal and the secrecy which surrounds it , without reflecting that ideas have to be shaped by discussion and given preliminary approval as worthy of examination before they can go out under the imprimatur of the organizing body . |
| 6 | Where men like Bradford of Pippingford Warren attempted to enclose the remaining wastes of Ashdown Forest and succeeded , it was a comparatively rare event ; unlike the Midlands enclosure , which frequently redistributed arable land , the sand and clay of Wealden waste required wholesale draining and massive injections of capital before they could be used for profitable corn-growing . |
| 7 | Some children may need to experience the pleasures and benefits of collaboration before they will spontaneously choose to work together on joint activities . |
| 8 | He saw that the humans were numerous and becoming more so , and that it was only a matter of time before they would eclipse the elder races . |
| 9 | And then they had to be a for a certain length of time before they would be a master joiner . |
| 10 | Plenty of time before they 'd be missed . |