Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] before they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Surrey-based Heathland Countryside Management Project aims to see if the animals can regenerate and maintain heathland by eating the shoots of invading plants before they become firmly rooted . |
| 2 | the diffusion of possible objections before they are raised |
| 3 | And if the stranger has pleased the local cattle they will show their gratitude by plastering the sides of the vehicle with a generous dolloping of fresh dung before they depart . |
| 4 | She had been noting various titles during Joyce 's discourse ; there was a new book about bats that Edward would want , and one or two things she would like to get hold of herself — the sole perquisite of this trade was a surreptitious early pick of incoming titles before they went on the shelves . |
| 5 | Almost certainly Kuhn would agree with this : students must learn a rather simplified and approximate version of the current state of scientific knowledge before they can grapple with the more sophisticated ideas and evaluate the claims of competing theories . |
| 6 | Much of liberal politics before they were snuffed out by the Dej regime had been dominated by the Bratianu family . |
| 7 | One medium even claimed to have made a plaster cast of a pair of ectoplasmic hands before they dissolved . |
| 8 | Furthermore , the authorities will require sets of consistent data before they accept that action is required . |
| 9 | Obviously , too , they are policies which will take years of consistent application before they can bear fruit . |
| 10 | To listen to the Europeans talk , they would all appear in need of similar introspection before they descend on Augusta National for the main business of their trip , the Masters , which begins on Thursday . |
| 11 | The behaviour of living systems is a consequence of the pattern and organisation provided by the L-Field , Burr maintains , and that abnormalities in the L-Field can give advance warning of future symptoms before they are evident . |
| 12 | The nature of the marketing process may have to vary with customer size ; paint manufacturers will for instance have to get themselves onto a list of approved contractors before they can even bid for orders to major customers such as the railways or car manufacturers . |
| 13 | Now the corporate plan of every museum may have to be approved by the Department of National Heritage before they receive their grant in aid . |
| 14 | While the single-centre institutions found it somewhat easier to adopt the mantle of RMC , inevitably some of the multi-centre RMCs found their development delayed by management problems , especially where they were composed of a number of colleges which had to negotiate a series of complex mergers before they could start . |
| 15 | The pragmatic theories we have examined leave a number of unanswered questions , and they are in need of considerable extension before they can be fruitfully applied to discourse analysis and language teaching . |
| 16 | Reagan himself claimed that the SDI was defensive in character , since it was designed to dispose of nuclear weapons before they reached their target , and that it was in any event a programme of research in the first instance . |
| 17 | And GPU 's lawyers made great play of a document , written by Babcock staff before the TMI accident , that suggested new procedures to recognise the signs of impending accidents before they happen . |
| 18 | The centre of the action is the Castle , and you do n't want the adventurers dying at the hands of a bunch of miserable Orcs before they get there ! |
| 19 | The minor age differences between zircons and other kimberlite minerals may result from the second magmatic pulse required to account for the disruption and deformation of MARID nodules before they are incorporated in the final erupted kimberlite . |
| 20 | Ten years ago Assistance Publique established a technology assessment process for the whole system , which assesses the cost effectiveness of new innovations before they are introduced and helps to rationalise their introduction within the system . |
| 21 | Lent from churches across Belgium , all the sixteen retables on show will be restored under the supervision of the Musem of Religious Art before they are returned to their respective churches . |
| 22 | It makes little sense , for example , to require that children have a command of formal vocabulary before they are competent in technical vocabulary or vice versa . |