Example sentences of "of [noun] before they are " in BNC.

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1 Confidence is particularly important during the development of inventions before they are granted patents because a patent will be refused if details of the invention have been made available to the public , as we shall see .
2 Students must normally have successfully completed or gained APL for 50% of the areas of study of the Diploma programme and must be studying for the remaining areas of study before they are eligible to start work for their projects .
3 Peter , the officer-in-charge , has worked hard to make sure that new staff have the right sort of attitude before they are appointed .
4 It is just the ratio of initial compliances , which must be applied to the observations of J(t) before they are plotted . )
5 Students must pass through three stages of training before they are ready actually to break something .
6 If we do not use these medications properly then it can only be a matter of time before they are withdrawn from availability and we lose a precious treatment for our fish .
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